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Galloway Calls a Spade a Spade

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 18 May 2005
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One Scotsman, Calls a Spade a Spade

by James Glaser
May 18, 2005

British MP George Galloway was called on the carpet by a United States Senate Investigative Committee and he shocked them by showing up and defending himself.

Senator Norm Coleman, Republican Chairman of the committee had accused Galloway of making money off the Iraqi oil-for-food program and Galloway was more than Coleman ever expected.

Galloway, "I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction."

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda."

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001"

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning."

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 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."

Usually when people come before the United States Senate they are in awe and that is what Coleman was thinking would happen, but George Galloway showed the United States Senate how more and more of the world feels about them.

The world has watched as the pitiful third world country of Iraq keeps jabbing away at the world’s most powerful military and those jabs are drawing blood. George Galloway was not afraid to say what he believed tonight the whole world is listening to what he had to say.

It really doesn’t matter if this Scotsman from across the ocean is guilty or innocent. What is important is that he has shown the world that a lone person with a belief in himself, can stand up to the United States Senate and call them liars and they really can not say anything back, because Washington has been caught is so many lies leading up to our War with Iraq.

Most of the world knows how George Bush and his people lied and distorted facts in order to get a war going in Iraq. The world knows there were no WMDs, they know about all the innocent Iraqis who have been killed, and they know Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. They look in wonder at reports of American polls that tell us that almost half of all Americans still believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, even after President Bush said it isn’t true. They see polls that tell them that the Religious Right in America still believes there are WMDs someplace in Iraq or maybe Saddam hid them in another country. The world watched George Bush get re-elected, even though he lied through his teeth to get us into war.

America is now like the Empire in Star Wars and everyone in the world is starting to think of us like that. George Galloway struck a verbal blow for the resistance and made the Unites States Senate look small. Here we are in a war in Iraq where American Soldiers and Marines are getting killed and wounded every day and the United States Senate is trying to take an insignificant British MP to task for some oil-for-food program that took place over a decade ago.

No one in the Senate is talking about how we got into this war. No one in the Senate is talking about how we tortured women and even children at Abu Garaib Prison. No one in the Senate is even talking about how we are going to get our troops home, but they will talk about how this foreign person or that foreign person did something wrong years ago. They point America’s finger, so that no one thinks about what we are doing.

The US Senate looks bad today and they should. America has all sorts of problems they could be working on right here at home, but no, they have to start looking at people living thousands of miles away who they say did wrong, because for sure they don’t want to look at people here in Washington.

www.jamesglaser.org/2005/p20050518.html

Forum posts

  • finially some courage ... in the nick of time !!!! may the truth burst the "dam" of lies and flow as an awsome river to quench our thirst !

  • James, you’ve hit the nail right on the head - it’s dead on!

  • as long as israel controls the usa, the same old thing will happen. it was funny when galloway said he did not question where the donors to his charity got their money from. he said to coleman that he is sure that coleman does not question his biggest donor, the american israeli public affairs committee (aipac) gets their money from when it makes large donations to colemans campaigns, or pays for his frequent trips to israel.

    funny how coleman is not going after the spy who gave us intelligence secrets recently to aipac. you think that the sort of spying that is being undertaking through feiths office would raise some eyebrows in the senate. but then again, why would coleman do that, he worked for aipac, and so did the major prosecutor of the war, another israeli, douglas feith. and we have rice and powell and even bush frequently go to aipac conrferences and state their implicit hate of arabs and love for israel. maybe when the american people can talk about that, these wars will not happen. next stop for israel is iran. sharon says they need to be shut down. go to work usa!!!! thankfully galloway used the term neo-conservaitve quite often. people need to look outside the us press to find out the real facts.

    ps

    bolton, another aipac boy, is being sent into the un to make sure that the un doesnt say boo to israel.

    the daily telegraph, who originally went after galloway, was owned by conrad black (at the time) through a company called hollinger. his wife is barbara amiel. she is a hard core israeli and pushed hard for the war. on the board of hollinger sat no other than richard perle (ex AEI), and we all know where he stood on the war. galloway sued the telegraph for libel and won his case.

    the whole war on iraq was planned a long time ago in a document partly written by richard perle in the late 1990 for benjamin netanyhu, who was at the time prime minister of israel. the document called, "securing the realm" stated that to ensure israel control of the middle east, saddam hussein need to be taken out and bagdad taken over. israel then went on to promote their man chalabi to say that iraq had this and that. this was all done under the quise of 9/11. the 9/11 credit card gave free reign for america (israel) to promote this war.

    i am sure this will not show up on this website because the authors want people to hate bush and be well informed, but no so well informed that they actually know what is going on.

  • "It really doesn’t matter if this Scotsman from across the ocean is guilty or innocent."

    Who is James Glaser kidding? No wonder europe is in the condition it’s in. It doesn’t matter any more that Galloway might have taken advantage of oil-for-food program and stolen food out of the mouths of Iraqis and enriched himself at their expense — who cares about things like that. The only thing that matters is to be able to make a good show of indignation and show up a bunch of senators. Believe me, it’s not that hard to do, after all aren’t they just a bunch of stupid americans?! People you have lost track of what’s important here. You guys are always putting the US gov’t down but guess who is so eager to make a 6-hour trip over the ocean just to get a chance at addressing the senate. What on earth makes you think that what happened is so impressive? Do you guys realize that it wasn’t even televised over any major networks here and nobody still has a clue who Galloway is...including me. I had to google to figure out why this guy was making the trip. You guys are really pathetic.

  • All it takes is one man or woman, be it Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, or now George Galloway.

    I am an expatriot Brit, living abroad for 25 years and no longer voting in the UK, but George Galloway has my vote. I watched part of his speech on CNN. It was awesome, to use an American phrase. He looked straight at the camera, never consulting any notes, and never letting his opponents off the hook. It was worse than being called before the headmaster must be. He told them off, good and proper, in a way that they can’t ignore. I hope that many Americans were watching and were capable of understanding him (his accent might not be the easiest for a non-Brit to understand), because his words were what America needs: straight talk, without fear and without cursing. He said exactly what he thought, and the world heard him.

    All it takes is one man or woman...

  • The U.S. senate not only looks bad, they smell to high heaven.

  • galloway is great