From ABC News:
The fiery Brit George Galloway defied the U.S. Senate once again, denying claims that he lied under oath during his testimony last May on the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs released a report Monday saying it has fresh evidence that Galloway and his wife benefited from illegal oil money from the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The new allegations call into question Galloway’s vehement denials that he profited from the 1996 to 2003 oil-for-food program, which is the subject of investigations by both the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.
The oil-for-food program set up by the United Nations enabled Iraq to sell limited quantities of oil to meet its people’s needs for food and medicine as economic sanctions were imposed against Saddam’s regime. The investigations have focused on various political figures and oil middle men who bought under-priced Iraqi oil and got kickbacks as traders pumped up the price before selling it on the open market.
Looking for Kickbacks
The committee, led by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., alleges that the Labor Party lawmaker and now British member of parliament received eight oil vouchers from Saddam’s regime between 1999 and 2003 and that wire transfers of $446,000 from oil allocations enabled him to pay for his political campaign. According to the committee report, his now-estranged Jordanian wife, Amireh Abu-Zayyad, also raked in some cash, purportedly receiving $150,000 in oil money.
“We have what I think we call the smoking gun,” said Coleman in a written statement. “The additional evidence clearly demonstrates the testimony Mr. Galloway provided the sub-committee was false and misleading.”
Reached for comment, the maverick British lawmaker lied about having not lied, then offered a blistering series of lies about the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs’ claims, which, not surprisingly, he insisted are politically motivated lies based on his earlier lies— a charge Committee Chair Senator Norm Coleman noted is, well, a big fat lie.
Galloway then had himself a really expensive meal and a pair of Belgian hookers.
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(more here; h/t american apologist)
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update: See also, Mr Galloway Comes to Madison
Stop trying to stifle his brave lies–er, dissent!
Galloway’s wife, whose bank accounts received the deposits, could not be reached for comment.
When Galloway faces a U.S. trial for perjury will he contest the authority of our courts on the grounds we are an “illegal occupying power?”
Nothing would surprise me with this guy.
-Steve
Well, that’s all just a PACK OF LIES!! I really wanted to use the old hypocrisy line here, but I already used it once today. But really. What a jagass. “Okay, so you were right. Betcha won’t tryyyyyy meeeee.”
It depends upon what your definition of “here” is.
Well, isn’t that a coincidence.
Right now I’m enjoying my second Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre, a fine mahogany ale made with Belgian beet sugars. And–get this–the six-pack came with hookers. And a cricket bat. And–this is the stupendously amazing part–“fiery Brit” George Galloway was in the beer store!
So I was able to beat his head to a wretched, kickback-infused pulp with the cricket bat on my way out.
That’s some satisfying synchronicity right there, let me tell you.
Turing: “staff,” as in, “My staff of American righteousness will knock your dick in the dirt, you sack of amoral self-serving shit.”
George is just upset because for the last 2 1/2 years he hasn’t been able to take a trip to Iraq in order to get buggered by Saddam and Tariq Aziz. Poor guy.
Dear Jeff,
I enjoy both the funny and the serious you take on.
Last month George Galloway and Jane Fonda were scheduled to speak here in Madison, WI. Fonda said she was sick, or sickening, whatever and no-showed. Galloway was there and I weaseled into the press conference with home made credentials and got four questions with him.
Worst thing is Galloway said to me “I’m beginning to think you’re an honest man” I’m asking you not to hold that against me, although I did get in a shot about disco dancing with Tariq Aziz. Story and video here:
Mr. Galloway comes to Madison
Cordially,
Uncle J
Thanks! I’ll add it to an update.
“Lube up the #3 strap-on, Beatrice, we’ve got ourselves a live one…”
SB: having
in the biblical sense
JWebb sends along this Hitchens bit on Galloway (which itself includes a nice Oil for Food scandal primer).
So, will the legacy media cover Galloway’s deceit and corruption as publicly as they covered his outrageous rants and posturing?
TW:care – With respect to the truth, does the legacy media even care?
Well, Steve, I’m not sure. I haven’t followed anything about US bases in the United Kingdom since Maggie Thatcher let our F-111’s give Quaddafi a few tons of high explosive enemas. Something was loosened up, so I guess they were enemas.
I suppose I should Google and see if those nosiy women are still hanging around Greenham Common.*
*They weren’t the kind the boys would consider fun, unless the boys were 15 Newcastles to the wind and had a recent lobotomy.
Word: way. “No way would I hit that!” *ralph*
OK, so the spin on this is all the moral equivalency you can muster.
U.S. companies were caught red-handed in the OFF scandal as well.
The U.S. administration knew about the OFF payoffs and looked the other way (hmmm… who was prez then?)
Babies starved.
The sanctions were unfair to start with. Everyone knows Saddam was complying with the U.N.
Repeat these several times (and I’m sure there are more, but I don’t have the stomach to read any of those sites) and pretty soon George looks like a fucking hero.
hnrrrrrrr…ROVE!..
..grrrnnnngh…..LIBBEY!..
…wmmmmmph…….CHENEY! …….rrrrrrrrrr…BOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!
HALLIBURTON!
HALLIBURTON!
HALLIBURTON!
HALLIBURTON!
US firm admits oil-for-food bribe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4361838.stm
God, I hope that Galloway takes himself the gallows’ way, and soon. Few have a bigger heap of comeuppance pursuing him, and I can’t wait to see it come crashing down upon him. As much as I support free speech, I also believe strongly in the “fighting words” doctrine, and I know I could take the lymie old bitch.