"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."
"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."
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies."
It was quite a piece of showmanship - he even had the audacity to do some sanction busting and smoke a Cuban cigar outside the hearings.
I must admit I wasn’t aware of Mr. Galloway and his career in politics, but after checking I see he has quite a colourful past in recent years. A Scot, an ex boxer, a Labour MP expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 for encouraging soldiers not to fight in Iraq. He stood in the last election as member of a new party the Respect-Unity Coalition, winning his seat against an up and coming young Labour MP (Oona King).
3 comments:
Steve,
I'm not a fan of Galloway but certainly admire his frankness. I would have given the world to have been in North American during his testimony in front of the Senate committee...to see the way the US press covered him. Thanks for writing about this!
Janet
Over here the press - even those on the "left" such as the New York Times - banished the story to the inside pages, and Gorgeous George only enjoyed the most fleeting mention on the network newscasts.
Not that Norm Coleman (the "increasingly bewildered Replublican chairman"), is much admired either.
It's just that Americans are very prickly about being ridiculed.
Many thanks, John, for your comment.
Janet
(aka "Lord Celery")
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