[Pokey78]

Today George Galloway, tomorrow Scott Ritter, Wednesday . . .

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Scare quotes are the "journalist's" best friend.

[BOBTHENAILER]

I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one."

How Clintonesque is that statement?

Reading further in the article one can see how he made his cash. In my business it's called an overriding royalty interst, or, as described in the article, a percentage of every barrel sold.

This gets "curiouser and curiouser". This boy is gonna be toast.

[BOBTHENAILER]

"From the way they have been described to me, I can state that [the documents] bear all the hallmarks of having been either forged or doctored and are designed to discredit those who stood against the war."

Ah yes, the old vast right wing conspiracy theory rises again.

[geedee]

Today George Galloway, tomorrow Scott Ritter, Wednesday . . .

LOL. I like the way you think but, sadly, this really is the world we live in. I suspect even die-hard cynics like me are gonna be surprised when all the shenanigans are discovered.

[Billthedrill]

Well, if the reported sum of £375,000 is accurate it shouldn't be hard to trace. Pretty good chunk of change, that. It would appear that our Mr. Galloway has some 'splainin' to do...

[beckett]

Here's a brief backgrounder on Galloway: Bush and Blair: Wolves

[Steve Eisenberg]

This story is just too, too, good! There is a leftist fellow who I spar with from time to time on another board (www.ulrp.com), and he always includes a Galloway quote on his signature line. So I've already posted this there.

For more on Galloway, see:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3463-419574,00.html

[Bigg Red]

Today George Galloway, tomorrow Scott Ritter, Wednesday . . .

Be still, my heart! Cynthia in the chokehold of justice !

[Mike Darancette]

Just wait until the truth comes out about France, Germany and the UN in their dealing with Iraq on Food for Oil.

[beckett]

Galloway recently said that the saddest event of his life so far has been the fall of the Soviet Union. In that same interview he called John Lennon's Imagine the "socialist anthem."

Iraqi Documents Detail £375,000 Payments to British MP George Galloway

Altogether now:

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
Nothing to kill or die for
A brotherhood of man

[Ken H]

Lots of folks will be going down before this is all over.

I'd bet my paycheck the US has a whole lot of information about such dealings with Saddam in their hands that they have not released yet.

[the_doc]

"I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one."

Sounds like this guy is just practicing his evasive testimony for trial.

MadIvan: Are you UK folks familiar with what Texans call a "necktie party"?

[hoot2]

"accusations last night that the Labour MP George Galloway was on the payroll of Saddam Hussein"

hey, he only "laundered" the $$$ for the "hitlery for prez committee..."

[MattAMiller]

Either he did it or somebody's trying to frame him. Big, big stuff either way.

[TUX]

It's amazing what a little money spred around can do. Always follow the money trail.

[tictoc]

I'm not saying this is a setup. But I would rather be cautious now than have egg on my face later. Vermin like Galloway are perfectly capable of acting as they do even without a payoff. Even before the implication of Galloway in Saddam payola, Nelson Ascher, at Europundits (scroll down to Friday, April 18) was skeptical when the Telegraph first started publishing secret Iraqi files:

Let’s stop playing childish games. Come on: I want hard proof that the Axis of Weasels had been helping Saddam to come out in the open as much as anybody else. But we have a saying in Brazil that could be translated like this: When a beggar is given too much money, the suspicions of the saint are aroused. (Believe me, it sounds much better in Portuguese).

The Telegraph’s scoop this Sunday (Revealed: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam) about the cooperation between the Russian secret services and Iraq, with documental proof that the Russians had been spying on Blair and sharing information with Saddam, is to good to be true.

Sorry, but doesn’t it sound rather unbelievable that, even before the shooting has stopped, a reporter goes to the headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service in Baghdad, I mean, to a building that has been heavily bombed, that’s partly destroyed and burnt out, that had millions and millions of files of all kinds, imagine, tons and tons of paper, that has already been looted, that he then walks around for half an hour and, look!, finds exactly the information that will make it to the front page just in time for the Sunday edition?

It’s obvious that this doesn’t make sense.

(For the rest of Ascher's comments, click on the link above.)

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897689/posts

THE TIMES: Galloway denies receiving £370,000 Iraq oil payments
The Times (UK) ^ | 4/22/03 | Melissa Kite
...here's links to the original Telegraph story and editorial posted by MadIvan, the documents on the Telegraph site, and the Sun and Independent takes posted by Pokey78.

Here is the account of how the reporter came upon these documents:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/ngall122.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixnewstop.html

I'm afraid that the establishment media will simply stonewall this to death, despite the direct revelation having been made by one of its most loyal members, the Daily Telegraph. The antiwar group ANSWER has been directly financed by the Iraqi regime since its formation, in the form of "legal fees" paid by Baghdad to ANSWER's leading spokesman and organizer, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897567/posts

Galloway was in Saddam's pay, say secret Iraqi documents (PACIFISTS ON SADDAM PAYROLL)
The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2003 | David Blair
George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad.

The documents, complete with scans of the letters.

How David Blair found the documents

While children are in the dungeon, this piece of dirt cries, "NO WAR".

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897639/posts

Paid to be a traitor (Galloway)
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 04/22/03 | Trevor Kavanaugh

The so-called Honourable Member for Glasgow Kelvin emerged last night as the paid mouthpiece for one of the most despicable regimes of torture and mass murder in modern times.

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881636/posts

TRAITOR (Meet George Galloway, MP for Bagdad Central)
The Sun ^ | Apri 1, 2003 | The Sun

[mware]

WOW!!! I sure would like to be in the House of Commons when this is brought up.

[Jeremiah Jr]

A Jordanian businessman? I'm shocked! Shocked!

[BartMan1]

jeeez...