Posted on 07/22/2007 9:09:38 AM PDT by tcrlaf
July 19, 2007 LONDON: British MP George Galloway personally thanked Saddam Hussein for his regime's financial backing in a campaign against sanctions on Iraq, and even asked him to raise the payments, it emerged yesterday.
Mr Galloway also offered to help set up with Saddam an Iraqi satellite television channel, broadcasting in English, months before the beginning of the Iraq war.
An account of their meeting, published for the first time in a House of Commons report into Mr Galloway's failure to declare his financial backers, contradicts the MP's insistence that he was unaware of receiving money from the former Iraqi regime.
The record was unearthed by Philip Mawer, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, during a four-year inquiry into Mr Galloway's activities. As a result, he faces being suspended from the house for 18 sitting days.
SNIP- The document says that during the meeting in August 2002, Mr Galloway praised Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister, who also attended, for helping to secure his financial backing.
Mr Galloway, addressing Saddam as "Your Excellency", tells him: "Mr Tariq Aziz has helped us with his contacts ... But we are now suffering from the problem of the price of oil, which has resulted in a reduction in income and delay in receiving our dues."
There was also a reference to discussions between Mr Galloway and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq's information minister, who earned the nickname Comical Ali for his surreal defiance as the regime was toppled
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The blood of so many innocent people, and perhaps many more in the future, is on the hands of these idiots.
Best they be careful since they are skirting on the edge of treason and may, in the future, face a Galloway comeuppance.
It’s a fright, when the whores won’t stay bought once they have accepted remuneration.
GFalloway still shall never make an account of his dealings with Saddam. Not until it is taken into a court of law by a prosecutor with a little spine.
May I add: Galloway is a duplicitous, self-serving, amoral mercenary.
That'll teach Galloway to take money from genocidal dictators.
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What he did was treason against the Crown - which is what he should be charged with. That proposed “punishment” is ridiculous.
No good will come of this political culture...the Romans could have told us this.
Traitors should be hung
Too fast....too merciful....
The Brits at one time, REALLY knew how to punish those who offended them by the act of "treason"....
Perhaps it's time to return to that age when the punishment matched the crime.....
Drawn and quartered comes to mind.....
I wonder if that group of dems that visited Iraq just before the war got some cash or other incentives. I would love to have a rock solid link to the dems. I can understand their actions if they were bribed. I cannot understand them if they were not bribed. Other than they seem to want the US to collapse.
Ping.
Is this a surprise to anyone?
Funny...George is a little bit long in the tooth to play Oliver Twist.
“Please, sir, may I have some more?”
“MoooooOOOOOORE???”
It’s a wonder Saddam didn’t drop that fat blob into the chipper.
Not a surprise to me, but I do smile at seeing it in a headline.
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