george galloway conspiracy

[4days]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

okay, so i'm sounding like geoff - but this one bugs me. i remember just after the invasion of iraq, there was some newspaper reporter on tv claiming to have found documents proving that george galloway had taken backhanders from saddam.

george galloway was one of the most vocal opponents of the invasion of iraq (can find out more about him in the wikipedia link above), so it seemed a bit odd when this hopeless little pissflap of a man said that he'd been bravely digging around the ruins of an embassy in iraq and happened to find this 'evidence' against george galloway.

the evidence in question was found to be forged, as was the evidence in another case against him, brought by the christian science monitor.

now, a day or so after winning a local election on an anti-iraq ticket, he's being accused by the us senate of taking backhanders from iraq again - apparently without any evidence at all.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3 ... 08,00.html

[Geebs]

Remember, in the War on Terror, you don't need evidence.

(Waits for George Galloway model in America's Army)

[Ryoki]

I read the BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4538735.stm

Had to laugh at this:

And he blasted the Senate investigation, which he said had never written to him, spoken to him, or responded to his offers to testify.

"This cannot possibly be called an investigation," he said.

[seremtan]

Galloway seems to be some sort of stupidity magnet. Anyone see Paxman asking him on election night "if he felt proud of having ousted one of the few black women MPs in parliament"? Fucking inane question.

Still waiting for Paxo to ask Blair if he "feels proud to have participated in the slaughter of 700,000 Iraqi children (1.8m Iraqis in total) during sanctions and a further 18,000-100,000 during the recent war".

But I won't hold my breath.

[4days]

just watched it - it's linked on the top-right of this page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4539429.stm
lol, paxman gets really stroppy. not sure how relevant it is to have that tory knob in the clip after him, seems very keen to turn it into a race issue. also a bit out of order the way paxman quotes galloway's response to something oona king said without including her part (she mentions her own race).

not saying that galloway's totally in the right - he's a bit of a shadey bugger and his campaign seems irresponsible in a local-political sense - but let's face it, what would paxman's career be worth if he was anything less than scathing to the guy?

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Galloway seems to be some sort of stupidity magnet. Anyone see Paxman asking him on election night "if he felt proud of having ousted one of the few black women MPs in parliament"? Fucking inane question.

Still waiting for Paxo to ask Blair if he "feels proud to have participated in the slaughter of 700,000 Iraqi children (1.8m Iraqis in total) during sanctions and a further 18,000-100,000 during the recent war".

But I won't hold my breath.

interesting little commentary on Paxman by Pilger...



http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... le8821.htm

"Blair always enjoys his interviews with Paxo," says Roger Mosey, the head of BBC Television News, without a hint of irony.

Blair should enjoy them; he is always spared the imperious bombast that is now a pastiche and kept mostly for official demons. "Watch George Galloway clash with Jeremy Paxman," says the BBC News homepage like a circus barker. Once under the big top of Newsnight, you get the usual set-up: a nonsensical question about whether or not Galloway was "proud of having got rid of one of the few black women in parliament", followed by mockery of the very idea that his opponent, an unabashed Blairite warmonger, should account for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.

Seven years ago, when Denis Halliday, one of the United Nations' most respected humanitarian aid directors, resigned from his post in Iraq in protest at the Anglo-American-led embargo, calling it "an act of genocide", he was given the Paxo treatment. "Aren't you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein?" he was mock-asked. The following year, Unicef revealed that the embargo had killed half a million Iraqi children. As for East Timor, a triumph of the British arms trade and Robin Cook's "ethical" foreign policy, the presence of British Hawk jets was "not proved", declared Paxo, parroting a Foreign Office lie. (A few months later, Cook came clean.) Today, napalm is used in Iraq, but the armed forces minister is allowed to pretend that it isn't. Israel's weapons of mass destruction are "dangerous in the extreme", says the former head of the US Strategic Command, but that is a permanent taboo.

[Chupacabra]

I read the first and all I could think was why the fuck a flute player would be involved with this.

[blood.angel]

It was funny watching FOXs report on this. Made him out to be uundeniably guilty.

[R00k]

CNN and MSNBC are accepting it as a foregone conclusion too.

[seremtan]

Galloway seems to be some sort of stupidity magnet. Anyone see Paxman asking him on election night "if he felt proud of having ousted one of the few black women MPs in parliament"? Fucking inane question.

Still waiting for Paxo to ask Blair if he "feels proud to have participated in the slaughter of 700,000 Iraqi children (1.8m Iraqis in total) during sanctions and a further 18,000-100,000 during the recent war".

But I won't hold my breath.

interesting little commentary on Paxman by Pilger...



http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... le8821.htm

"Blair always enjoys his interviews with Paxo," says Roger Mosey, the head of BBC Television News, without a hint of irony.

Blair should enjoy them; he is always spared the imperious bombast that is now a pastiche and kept mostly for official demons. "Watch George Galloway clash with Jeremy Paxman," says the BBC News homepage like a circus barker. Once under the big top of Newsnight, you get the usual set-up: a nonsensical question about whether or not Galloway was "proud of having got rid of one of the few black women in parliament", followed by mockery of the very idea that his opponent, an unabashed Blairite warmonger, should account for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.

Seven years ago, when Denis Halliday, one of the United Nations' most respected humanitarian aid directors, resigned from his post in Iraq in protest at the Anglo-American-led embargo, calling it "an act of genocide", he was given the Paxo treatment. "Aren't you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein?" he was mock-asked. The following year, Unicef revealed that the embargo had killed half a million Iraqi children. As for East Timor, a triumph of the British arms trade and Robin Cook's "ethical" foreign policy, the presence of British Hawk jets was "not proved", declared Paxo, parroting a Foreign Office lie. (A few months later, Cook came clean.) Today, napalm is used in Iraq, but the armed forces minister is allowed to pretend that it isn't. Israel's weapons of mass destruction are "dangerous in the extreme", says the former head of the US Strategic Command, but that is a permanent taboo.

Good piece. Pilger is spot on about the dismal election 'campaign'.

[4days]

first 6 mins are some bloke reading out that pdf from the other day, apparently trying to bore galloway into a stupor - then he hammers their collective cervix into jelly :lol:

video link to the testimony top-right:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4556113.stm

is this on yank telly?

[Hannibal]

Yeah C-span.....I saw bits of it on the News Hour w/ Jim Lehrer...laughed my ass off. At this point I don't know or care if he engaged in any WEE SHENANIGANS...I just loved it when he laid into Coleman--->a braindead cocksuck of the first order.

[Guest]

Wasn't this the guy on CNN today? He was arguing his defence and it was pretty bad what he had to say about the supporters of the war on Iraq.

I was honestly surprised CNN would even show it!

[Ryoki]

Bwahahaha :icon19:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 04,00.html

[Massive Quasars]

Galloway was high-larious when he testified.

[Magnetichead]

Go-Go-Power Galloway!

[R00k]

Yea I read the full transcript of his speech at the Senate.

All I could think was "Why can't we have people like him in the Democratic party right now?"

[Magnetichead]

Magic Bullets.