May 18, 2005

Quote of the day
Wow. Just... wow:

“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. I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”
- British anti-war MP George Galloway, appearing before the Senate yesterday.

Bonus quote, Galloway to chairman Norm Coleman:
“Senator, in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies, 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.”
OK, one more:
"If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.

"Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer."
Fun fact: Coleman quoted an anonymous source, who - along with "convicted bank robber and fraudster and conman" Ahmed Chalabi, who "played a decisive role in leading your country into the disaster in Iraq" - made unsubstantiated and false charges against Mr Galloway.

Coleman, after his royal and public ass-kicking, could only respond that Galloway was "not credible." Yeah, you guys would know all about that, wouldn't you?

This Senate report has had serious consequences. The image of George Galloway abroad has been damaged; there is lasting damage to his image because of this report. And we would encourage Mr Coleman and his neocon thug buddies to do all that they can to help repair the damage that has been done.

Crooks and Liars has the video.


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