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To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	5/31/2005 11:16:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Scurvy Gallowag By See Dubya on Current Events Patterico's Pontifications The Norse Workhorse at Seixon.com continues methodically nailing down George Galloway’s lie before the Senate subcommittee the other day–as Ace would say, “Like a Viking”! But with all this talk over the weekend of George Galloway lying under oath before Sen. Coleman’s committee about his relationship with Oil-for-Food magnate Fawaz Zureikat, we need to keep a few things in mind: First, Galloway’s organization, Mariam Appeal, was never a “charity”. It was a political organization. How do I know? Well, George Galloway said so, on the BBC in 2003: <<< GEORGE GALLOWAY: Two mistakes there. First of all, it isn’t a charity. It’s a political campaign and always has been. Secondly, it isn’t mine. I founded it, but long ago gave up day-to-day control of it. Indeed the chairman of it for some considerable time has been Mr Fawaz Zureikat. >>> It’s nice that he admits that. So let’s stop calling it his “charity” and refer to it as it was: a lobbying group for lifting the sanctions against Iraq, paid for by Iraq. It’s like an Iraq PAC. Except in the USA, PAC’s can’t suddenly start representing a foreign government for pay, without their staffers registering as lobbyists. Otherwise, you’re not a lobbyist, but a spy. Had Mariam Appeal operated under American law, Galloway would be in the same sinking boat as Susan Lindauer. Second: Galloway looked the other way about where the money was coming from. He admitted as much in his testimony: <<< SEN. COLEMAN: I’m asking you specifically, In 2001 were you aware he was doing oil deals with Iraq? GALLOWAY: I was aware that he was doing extensive business with Iraq. I did not know the details of it. It was not my business. >>> Later on he said “I took the view–I can be criticized for it, have been criticized for it–that I would fundraise from the kings of Arabia whose political systems I have opposed all my life in order to raise funds for what I thought was an emergency, facing a disaster.” But back in 2003, with the memo just discovered and a fire newly lit under his nattily-tailored bottom, Fawaz’s doings were his business. Gorgeous George told the BBC he was busy searching for <the real killers> the truth about his oppressin’ buddy, Fawaz: <<< JEREMY PAXMAN: Haven’t you asked him? GEORGE GALLOWAY: Well, I’m trying to reach him to ask him if he’s ever been involved in oil deals because I don’t know the answer to that. >>> Apparently Zureikat’s difficult to reach with the e-mail. Galloway had two years–from April 23rd 2003, the date of this BBC interview and shortly after the first allegations were made, and the date of his hearing, May 17 2005–to get an answer from Fawaz, and I guess he just never got around to it… Either that, or Galloway’s role in this is either “willful ignorance” or “complicity up to his armpits”. Which brings me to Third: Galloway was involved in a leadership role in a corrupt political organization and looked the other way while money from the Saddam regime–money that the Saddam regime was stealing from the Oil-for-Fraud program– poured in to the organization’s coffers. Money that should have gone in the first place to feed the very starving Iraqis that Galloway claimed to want to help. And he just didn’t care. Did he stop to worry that he was doing PR for a Kurd-gassing monster? Why, man, [he] did make love to this employment! So my question for the Gorgeous George fans out there: Explain to me in the comments below why Enron is an exploitative abomination, but Mariam Appeal’s founder and front man ought to be nominated for sainthood. Please give a reason besides the fact that Galloway hates America. patterico.com seixon.com powerlineblog.com wizbangblog.com news.bbc.co.uk nationalreview.com simplyappalling.blogspot.com

To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	6/8/2005 11:30:12 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Galloway Vote Fraud Investigated Little Green Footballs Hatemongering British MP George Galloway’s election may be in dispute, as allegations of vote fraud surface: <<< Police Probe Votes ‘Fraud’ in Galloway Seat Police are investigating an allegation of electoral fraud in George Galloway’s constituency, Scotland Yard said today. Thousands of fraudulent postal votes were cast in the east London constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow, the Respect MP claimed. He told the Electoral Review Committee at City Hall: “My suspicion is that there were many hundreds and perhaps in the low thousands of people on the register in Bethnal Green and Bow who should not be for one reason or other.” The election in his constituency was plagued by “ghost voters”, a electoral roll that was a “complete shambles” and a “dirty tricks” campaign spearheaded by New Labour, he claimed. He described one address in Brick Lane as a “black hole of Calcutta” claiming 14 people who did not live there had been registered to vote. And 200 polling cards were sent to residents at a former nurses home in Mile End which is now used as offices, he said. Mr Galloway overturned a 10,000 Labour majority to unseat Oona King and win by 823 votes. >>> (Hat tip: Ed Lasky.) littlegreenfootballs.com news.scotsman.com

To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	8/5/2005 10:22:35 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Galloway Tells Syria That Britain/America Are “Raping Your Daughters” By Rob on International Scene Say Anything Good grief… <<< BBC - MP George Galloway has defended comments referring to insurgents in Iraq as “martyrs”, saying he has not put British troops at risk. During a tour of the Middle East, Mr Galloway spoke of “poor Iraqis” using the most basic weapons to write the names of their towns “in the stars”. The Respect MP accused the UK and America of “raping” Baghdad and said the US was losing the war. . . . He told Syrian Television: “Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners - Jerusalem and Baghdad. “The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will. “The daughters are crying for help and the Arab world is silent. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters.” […] Mr Galloway said Tony Blair’s idea of a “war on terrorism” was absurd as terrorism was a tactic, not a strategy. “It’s not the Muslims who are sick. It’s Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It’s not the Muslims who need to be cured. It’s the imperialist countries that need to be cured.” >>> Doesn’t this guy have to be elected? How in the world is he still in office? feeds.feedburner.com news.bbc.co.uk

To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	1/25/2006 6:38:17 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Coleman, The Cat Who Laughed Last By Captain Ed on UNSCAM Captain's Quarters Somewhere in Washington, Senator Norm Coleman has the satisfaction of the last laugh. After the Left proclaimed George Galloway the winner in his appearance before Coleman's investigative committee on the UN Oil-for-Food scandal -- mostly because Galloway was rude and arrogant, two popular qualities among the MoveOn crowd -- Coleman patiently got Galloway to lie on record and under oath, ensuring that a case could be built against him for fraud and conspiracy. The Guardian (UK) reports today that the other shoe will drop in the next few days on the other side of the pond: <<< George Galloway faces the prospect of a criminal investigation into his activities by the serious fraud office, which has collected evidence relating to the oil-for-food corruption scandal in Iraq. A four-strong SFO team returned from Washington with what a source close to US investigators calls "thousands of documents" about the scandal. The team is expected to produce, within the next four weeks, a report for the SFO director, Robert Wardle, as to whether a full criminal investigation should be mounted into UK individuals and companies involved, including Mr Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. The SFO is following up two official reports published before Christmas in Washington, which detailed banking evidence that Mr Galloway's wife and his political campaign organisation both received large sums from Saddam Hussein, laundered through under-the-counter oil allocations. Mr Galloway is unaware of the SFO's activities. He is in the Channel 4 TV show Celebrity Big Brother and cut off from outside contact. He is expected to be evicted from the Big Brother house tonight. >>> Galloway may pull off quite a feat; he might go from the Big Brother house to the big house in a short period of time. The Guardian also reports that the Telegraph may use the information to appeal its latest loss on Galloway's libel case against them to the Lords, and that the Washington investigation may soon force Parliament to reopen its review of Galloway's ethics as a member of the Commons. Galloway may believe that he won some sort of battle against his critics and the Bush administration by appearing before Congress and bluffing his way through questioning by responding with lies and accusations, but in the end all he proved was that politicians who break the law act exactly like ... anyone else who breaks the law. Some people were just dumb enough to fall for his act. captainsquartersblog.com politics.guardian.co.uk news.telegraph.co.uk

To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	1/25/2006 7:13:28 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Video Shows British MP Met With Hussein's Son Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Video footage has emerged showing George Galloway shaking hands with Saddam Hussein's son Uday Hussein — an alleged rapist, torturer and convicted murderer. The video, obtained by The Sun, shows the Respect MP having a 20-minute meeting with Saddam's eldest son in an Iraqi palace in 1999. In the video, Galloway is seen to greet Uday, shaking his hand twice and calling him "Excellency." He jokes about losing weight, going bald and failing to give up smoking cigars. Galloway also orders watching journalists not to publish parts of their conversation. Finally, according to the paper, he taunts the U.S. and vows to stick with Uday "until the end". The video was shot for an Iraqi TV station and was smuggled out of Iraq before the regime fell. Uday beat and stabbed to death his father's personal valet and food taster, Kemal Hana Gegeo, and was briefly imprisoned by Saddam.He also raped numerous women, and his victims are believed to have included a visiting Russian ballerina. And as head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he oversaw the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi athletes who were deemed not to have performed to expectations. Uday was shot dead by US soldiers in 2003. He was 39. Galloway is the favourite to be voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house this evening. foxnews.com

To: Sully- who wrote (10814)	5/26/2006 2:36:09 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Another hero of the libs shows his true colors. Galloway: Assassinations Justified By Captain Ed on War on Terror Captain's Quarters George Galloway told an interviewer for the magazine GQ that an assassination of Tony Blair would have justification considering Blair's political positions and decisions, providing the latest in a series of embarrassments for the British Parliament. Galloway also embraced Cuba's Fidel Castro on Cuban television, pronouncing the dictator as a lion among monkeys: <<< The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair. In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?" Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did." >>> Galloway left his critics dumbfounded with this endorsement of violence over electoral politics. One PM called him "disgraceful and truly twisted", while the Minister for Armed Forces said that he had "dipped his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood." Even a leading anti-war group in the UK found it necessary to distance itself from Galloway's appalling proclamation. Bear in mind that all of this got reported last night by the British newspaper The Independent, which is known for its support of radical-leftist causes. Galloway could normally expect sympathetic treatment by this particular newspaper, but excusing assassinations of democratically elected leaders goes beyond the pale even for the Independent. The shock is not understandable. Galloway practically made a career of supporting brutal dictators, and he hasn't changed a bit. Galloway pimped for Saddam Hussein for years, and only recently have investigators at the UN and in the US shown that Saddam paid him well for those efforts. His appearance on state-run Cuban television took viewers by surprise when he launched into heavy praise for the island's dictator. He referred to Castro's political opponents as "monkeys", and put a coda on the moment by "[l]ooking approvingly into each others' eyes" before embracing Castro. Galloway has made a long career supporting brutal tyrants; it comes as no great shock that he endorses their methods as well. The voters of east London should be ashamed of themselves for sending such a sick man to represent them. The only true constituency for Galloway wears long, wraparound sleeves and resides within padded walls. captainsquartersblog.com news.independent.co.uk