MOTHER OF SMOKESCREENS
 

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'MOTHER OF SMOKESCREENS'

British MP George Galloway launched a blistering broadside against the Senate committee which accused him of taking vouchers for millions of barrels of oil from the former Iraqi regime.

Appearing before the committee, he said senators had gone about their business in a "cavalier fashion"and accused them of "schoolboy errors".

He said the committee was the "mother of all smokescreens" designed to tar the him, the anti-war movement and the French government.

Fixing his eyes firmly on the committee, the former Labour MP delivered his case in a confident and clear manner.

"I am not and never have been an oil trader. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned a barrel of oil, I have never sold a barrel of oil, and nor has anyone on my behalf," he told the committee.

He ripped into comittee chairman Norm Coleman, accusing him of damaging his reputation worldwide.

Mr Coleman began the hearing by reading a lengthy list of documents which, he said, showed that Mr Galloway had received allocations of oil vouchers under the former oil-for-food programme.

It has been claimed that Mr Galloway received 20 million barrels of oil from the ousted Iraqi leader.

In a lengthy opening statement, Mr Galloway insisted that the sub committee had no evidence against him.

"You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq," he said.


The MP said the documents brought in evidence against him were simply "false".

The committee quizzed Mr Galloway on his alleged dealings with Saddam during more than a decade of campaigning for the lifting of United Nations sanctions from Iraq.

Mr Galloway rejected a claim in the sub committee's report that he had "many" meetings with Saddam Hussein, saying he had only met the former dictator twice.

"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns," he said.

"I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas."

He flatly rejected an accusation that he was the owner of a company which had made substantial profits from trading in Iraqi oil.

The UN oil-for-food program, which began in late 1996 and ended in 2003, was aimed at easing the impact of sanctions imposed after Saddam's troops invaded Kuwait in 1990.

Baghdad was allowed to sell oil to buy basic goods and could negotiate its own contracts, but the program has been dogged by allegations of massive fraud and charges Saddam used it to buy influence in the West.[/quote:29196]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3 ... 52,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4556113.stm

watched it all just now. Galloway spoke down to and owned the senators, a brilliant speaker, a real politician who fights for what he believes in.

Well done, kudos to him for that.

[quote="George Galloway":0d72f]"You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq,"[/quote:0d72f]


Were you watching it on CSPAN or is there a national channel in England were they showed it?

On a side note...what does MP stand for?

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On a side note...what does MP stand for?[/quote:75bc3]

Member of Parliment.

....all commonwealth countries have MPs, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and a couple others I'm forgetting - they essentially make up the nations government.

[quote="$p!k3":053b0]Well done, kudos to him for that.

[quote="George Galloway":053b0]"You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq,"[/quote:053b0]


Were you watching it on CSPAN or is there a national channel in England were they showed it?

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bbc news

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't quite understand. I don't really watch any TV news other than the CBC and BBC, but I missed both today.

I don't really know who he is or his position. I gather he's anti war, and hes saying the comittie is trying to peg him as having accepted oil vouchers from Iraq? Is the senate comittie not made up of senators from the British government? Is the british government not taking oil vouchers? I'm pretty sure the Italians accepted oil. See here:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6039

and i'm sure the Americans are taking oil.

So is the senate comittie trying to take the heat of themselves and blame it on someone else?

Or am I totally reading this wrong?

US Senator Coleman(R) from Virginia accused Mr. Galloway during a hearing in the US Senate Sub Committee of accepting oil in the Oil for Food scandal.

Unless thats what you just said.

Oh...so is this Pre-war Iraq?

Yes, I'm fairly certain that this just about the Oil for Food scandel. If I'm wrong though someone correct me.

Your reading this right Ninty. Read more on him here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4539429.stm

He is being accused of taking 300,000 dollars in oil/money from the chairman of a charity he set up who done buisness in iraq whatever etc but it seems that the only proof there is is one faked document.

As Galloway said :

'Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today."

'Senator [Norm Coleman, committee chairman], this is the mother of all smoke screens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth."'


Watch the video, man he took them down good, such a brilliant speaker. Click on the video link on this page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4556113.stm

heres aload of the Quotes/articles from Galloways Testimony:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4557279.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4553601.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4557369.stm






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Unless thats what you just said.[/quote:9dead]


its what he just said biggrin:

Ya I saw this on BBC news Galloway gave a very good account of himself.

[quote="TGB!":19a35]The problem was - these are two different styles of government. . .Parliament is many times more combative than a Senate Floor. . .it has nothing to do with the man being a "better" politico - he just fist-boxes while the Senators. . .well I lost my train of thought on a proper analogy.

As for Galloway being "innocent" - please. Although I do find it humorous one crook accusing another.[/quote:19a35]


proof then? links to all this evidence then? have you even watched the video?

stfu then sleeping:

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proof then? links to all this evidence then? have you even watched the video?

stfu then sleeping:[/quote:1977b]

The self-wanking of the ignorant continues -

A simple GOOGLE of Galloway and Fraud should turn up more than enough for ya. . .not gonna do your work for you kid.

[quote="TGB!":2ff69]now come back with a witty purple coloured reply that resites the same bullshit.

[quote="$p!k3":bcac6]US Senator Coleman(R) from Virginia accused Mr. Galloway during a hearing in the US Senate Sub Committee of accepting oil in the Oil for Food scandal.

Unless thats what you just said.[/quote:bcac6]

he is from Minnesota...........