It Was Grand
I saw a bit of George Galloway and the US Senate committee while on the gym treadmill yesterday evening and I gotta tell ya, the urge to clap and cheer was heavy upon me…. if I hadn’t been quite so winded from the workout itself I might have, for verily I say unto you, from what I saw he did well and truly kick their asses.
I think one of my favorite Galloway comments was
“I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.”
No backing down there ‘eh? Damned good on him I say.
The absolute and complete hypocrisy of this whole Senate committee investigation into the Iraqi Food for Oil scandal is a wonderous thing to behold… really, I think they may have out done themselves this time.
Hypocrisy is the only word one can use to describe a president and administration that not only knew the program was being abused but knowingly & willingly let that abuse happen because it benefited their buddies — and then has the gonads to see an investigation into wrong-doing?
I wonder if that little tid-bit will appear in the committee minutes and what they will have to say about it if it does.
My personal favorite was:
With this story and the whole circus surrounding the Stronach jump it’s been a pretty entertaining news week all around I’d say.
So, if Galloway took OFF money, he should be excused because his theatrics make you feel better?
Actually it does not appear that there were any direct (or even reasonable indirect) ties to Galloway, at the very least (at least at this point) they didn’t have anything they could prove otherwise, as he made quite clear in his statement, they would have brought it in.
What made me chuckle was the way he put exactly what he thought of the whole proceeding on the table and, rightly or wrongly, my impression is that those folks are just not used to being talked to like that.
What strikes me as being so completely daft about the whole thing is that here they are doing this big ‘ole investigation when the president and administration knew the sanctions were being gamed all along and basically let it go.
What’s the point of it?
>>”Actually it does not appear that there were any direct (or even reasonable indirect) ties to Galloway, at the very least (at least at this point) they didn’t have anything they could prove otherwise, as he made quite clear in his statement, they would have brought it in.”
Sounds like you took my advice from an earlier post to heart, in regard to hedging one’s bet. That’s an equivocating stance if I ever saw one.
Galloway is a thug and an extremist. I don’t know if he is guilty of the allegations, but there’s plenty of smoke, if not yet any fire. Let’s just say his denial is completely expected and far from convincing.
The hypocrisy of the U.S. over Oil For Food is no excuse to let people like Galloway or Benon Sevan or Vladimir Zhirinovsky walk, if they did in fact receive bribes from Saddam.
And by the way, Rumsfeld didn’t sell Saddam any ” guns.” That was the Russians and the French, not that Galloway gives a rat’s arse about being truthful.