BUSTED -- AGAIN
By Cori Dauber - RantingProfs
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Shortly after the fall of Baghdad, documents were found stating that far left (and extremely anti-war) Labour MP George Galloway had received money from Saddam. He is currently suing the Daily Telegraph over the publication of those documents (and as I recall, there were two sets; the first had him receiving several hundred thousand pounds a year, and the Telegraph is sticking by those, the second suggested something in the "millions" range, and those were found to be forgeries pretty quickly.
(I loved the part of the story where he retreated to his Portugese villa and became unavailable for comment. What, exactly, are you Brits paying your politicians these days? I mean, do they all get villas on the continent, or did Galloway not realize how that looked?)
This was, of course, delicious irony: Galloway had been such an aggressive advocate for Iraq over the years that he was sometimes called "the MP from Baghdad." (He got that nickname after meeting with Saddam in 1994 and saying "I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability" on television. When the Labour Party convened a panel to consider tossing him for inciting Arabs to attack British troops and British troops to disobey orders, he announced that he was prepared "to accept Tony Blair's apology.")
Well, now, (thanks again to Memeorandum) come to find out
his name is on the list of recepients of oil vouchers. And
he ain't happy with the Telegraph once again. And once
again the Telegraph is standing firm. |
