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To: tejek who wrote (233762)	5/24/2005 6:08:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) of 1572642

Re: ...those released documents are forgeries. Of course, his detractors in the UK are calling Galloway a racist. What do you think? Well, I think that the same rightwing nuts and warmongers who keep smearing British MP G. Galloway today would have cheered and hailed the infamous US Senator J. McCarthy 55 years ago --clue: McCarthy's early Senate years were not distinguished. At one point he was rated the worst US senator in a poll of the Washington press. He dabbled in various issues and fleetingly grabbed headlines in 1949 for his part in the Malmédy investigation. This involved German SS officers who had been convicted of war crimes, including a massacre at Malmédy in France, but only, they alleged, after having been tortured by their American captors and forced to give false confessions. McCarthy, taking up the SS men's cause—and thereby appealing to Wisconsin's substantial German population—organized hearings which quickly became a circus as he lectured and hectored witnesses, clashed with his Senate colleagues, and for good measure denounced the American judges at Nuremberg. It was a preview of the antics to follow. [...] nybooks.com

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