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World News See other World News Articles Title: What Galloway said Senator, 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 Iraqs 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 Iraqs wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraqs money, but the money of the American taxpayer. 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. 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. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever, and you call that justice. 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 met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war. I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American Governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. 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. ********************************************************** The defiant Respect party MP turned the tables on senators who had accused him of receiving oil allocations from Iraq with a stinging criticism of the war against Iraq to an American television audience that rarely hears such attacks on US policy. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that the case for invading was a pack of lies, he said. He had given warning that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and had no connection to al-Qaeda or the September 11 attacks, and that the Iraqi people would resist invasion, he said. 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 death on a pack of lies. Mr Galloway said he had met Saddam only twice. I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld (the US Defence Secretary) met him. The difference is that he met him to sell him guns and to give him maps to better target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war. He accused American multinational companies such as Haliburton of plundering Iraq since the invasion, and claimed that the real sanctions busters had been US companies acting with Washingtons connivance. Afterwards Mr Coleman described Mr Galloways credibility as very suspect and spoke of consequences if he was found to have lied under oath. Mr Galloway told CNN: Most of the traffic Im getting is that the British parliamentary tradition won . . . I came not as the accused but as the accuser. The MP flew to Washington at his own expense after the permanent subcommittee on investigations accused him of receiving 20 million barrels of oil allocations from Saddam. It suggested that he might have used his anti-sanctions campaign, the Mariam Appeal, to conceal payments. The committees charges were based on Iraqi documents and interviews with senior Saddam officials. They named Mr Galloway as the recipient of oil allocations handled by a French company, Aredio Petroleum, and Middle East ASI, a Jordanian company owned by Fawaz Zureikat who contributed £375,000 to the appeal. But the committee could trace no payments to Mr Galloway himself. Mr Galloway called the charges utterly preposterous, adding: You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up since the installation of your puppet government. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 77.
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Check out some of these pithy quotes from the Senate's visitor today from the UK!
I heard he called Coleman a "pro- Israel, pro-war, neocon hawk, and the lickspittle of George W. Bush." ROFLMAO!!! This guy Galloway is the hero of the hour!!! I want to send him a fan letter.
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POPINJAY A vain or conceited person, one given to pretentious displays. This deeply insulting word is now rather dated or literary. A good example can be found in Joseph Conrads short story The End of the Tether of 1902: When he looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman happy. Dictionaries say a popinjay was also at one time the usual name for a parrot, and in that lies the origin of the derogatory term. What could be more gaudily and squawkingly in your face than a parrot? What more perfect term for an empty chatterer, fop or coxcomb? Whos a pretty boy, then? Its an ancient imprecation, already of some age when Shakespeare used it in Henry IV, but the literal parrot sense goes back even further, to the latter part of the fourteenth century. It was also used for a device on a post to shoot at, the archers equivalent of the quintain, usually it seems because the mark was a figure of a parrot. That explains references such as this one, in Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott: When the musters had been made, and duly reported, the young men, as was usual, were to mix in various sports, of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay, an ancient game formerly practised with archery, but at this period with fire-arms. The word travelled with the bird from Africa and can be traced back to the Arabic babbaga, through Spanish papagayo and Old French papeiaye. One of the earlier English versions (it had lots of forms before it settled to the spelling we know now) was papengay but it seems the ending was changed because people thought the name referred to a sort of jay. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pop2.htm
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