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To: Alighieri who wrote (233388)	5/18/2005 12:35:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572919

"Well, this guy has been leveling accusations left and right on prime time news.." I guess I should watch the news more, I don't recall ever seeing him before. So he is another Sen. Joe. Does he ever wave a list around?

To: Alighieri who wrote (233388)	5/18/2005 1:39:46 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572919

Apparently, Mr. Galloway was able to do what no democrat has been capable of doing......putting the GOP in its place. Do you think he might run for office in the US? **************************************************** A Glaswegian scrap on the Hill** The Times, Reuter May 19, 2005 WASHINGTON: Capitol Hill yesterday witnessed one of the most extraordinary political confrontations of modern times as a British MP, freshly elected for a party no American has heard of, laid into the most senior US senators over the war on Iraq. Here was a clash of institutions -- the defiant Glaswegian grandstander knocking chunks out of top US legislators, the brawling methods of British politics suddenly hitting the tightly buttoned US political stage. George Galloway said it was his US accusers who must answer for the "disaster" of the US-led invasion of Iraq and the deaths seen since. "I told the world your case for the war was a pack of lies," the MP told a Senate panel. "Everything I said about Iraq turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people have paid with their lives," he told the Senate homeland security and government affairs committee. And far from being a supporter of Saddam Hussein, as his congressional accusers alleged, Mr Galloway pointed out he had been an active opponent of the regime. "I have a rather better record of opposition to Saddam Hussein than you do," he said, furiously denying he had profited from the UN's oil-for-food program. "I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein at a time when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas." If Mr Galloway was all sharp suit and chutzpah, his interlocutors were men of marble and mahogany, responding to the angry accusations with deliberation, but barely concealed astonishment. Senate committees are used to vigorous self-justification, but they are completely unused to being attacked by a belligerent foreigner with a strong Scottish accent. "You traduced my name around the world without having asked me a single question," Mr Galloway thundered. Turning on Norm Coleman, the Republican senator leading the committee, he spat: "I know standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you're remarkably cavalier with the facts ... you have nothing on me, Senator." No wonder the senators began to look embarrassed at this apparition in their midst. At one point, Senator Coleman seemed close to giggling. "Infanticide masquerading as politics," Mr Galloway said. "Mr Coleman thinks that's funny ... I don't." He declared: "I am not now nor have I ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf." His denunciation of the Iraq war left some senators squirming, particularly when he urged them to refocus the UN investigation from the world body and on to the role played by Washington. The senators took the only viable option: by being as downbeat, low-key and understated as possible. But Mr Galloway landed right side up, sidestepping questions and restating the things that trouble him, from the war to the Senate panel. It was an unequal battle. Senator Coleman had Mr Galloway's name on a list, but Mr Galloway had something more, the gift of the Glasgow gab, a love of the stage and a fund of self-belief. theaustralian.news.com.au