The case against Galloway was "forged", asserts a British paper

[kliljedahl]

The central document used against George Galloway this week by the US senate committee investigating Iraq's oil for food programme is a forgery. Socialist Worker can reveal that evidence crucial to the alleged case against the Respect MP is fake - created after the fall of Baghdad in 2003.

The allegations are another desperate attempt to smear the opponents of the war on Iraq, and to make them appear as the corrupt hirelings of tyranny.

In Britain the material is another dirty weapon to be employed in an effort to destroy George Galloway and halt the rise of Respect.

Most of the accusations hurled against George Galloway by the senate committee on investigations this week were based on testimony that was supposedly freely given by former officials in Saddam Hussein's regime who are now held by US forces.

Link: http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/05/19/59860.html


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[knowbody0]

1. his crime

was compassion for the victims of the sanctions who were suffering and dying.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. His crime was giving voice to his compassion.

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. Nothing angers the Executive worse than dissenting AND being right.

Look at the vendetta they have against ElBaradei.

[applegrove]

4. Stay away from slime if you do not want to be slimed. Galloway

did not. If he didn't know his 'best friend' was making money off the sanctions and so was Saddam Hussein..he was all too naive.

[bemildred]

5. I didn't get that as his position.

It was more like: "Sure he was, everybody was, he was doing lots
of business with Saddam, but I didn't inquire as to the details".

And I infer from that that he didn't really give a shit where the
money came from, he was out to help the Iraqi kid(s).

But of course, opinions will vary.

[applegrove]

6. Sorry - I didn't read the transcript. But yeah - if he didn't care then

he didn't care if he got slimed. So now he is slimed. He makes great points about Rumsfield being slimed too - and for lesser reasons (Rumsfield sold weapons..Galloway was concerned about kids). Which is great of him to do. Clarify the issue.

[bemildred]

7. I think you have it more or less.

I don't know that he's a shining light of morality, he's a politician
so I assume he's a liar, but I don't think he went there to claim
sainthood, far from it, he went there to paste them in the chops.
I think that's what surprised the senators, they expected him to try
to defend himself, and for the most part he preferred to attack.

[Logansquare]

8. Yes, didn't do their homework on Gorgeous George did they?

He's considered to be a real carnivore by even British rhetorical standards. Skill, wit and ruthlessness are not UNcommon in the House of Commons. Norm, whom I am sure still moves his lips when he reads, didn't have a chance.


Reminds me of the Monty Python "documentary" about the infamous Piranha brothers. While Dinsdale nailed his victims' heads to the floor, his brother Doug uses a terrifying combination of "sarcasm, parody, double-entendres and satire."

[bemildred]

11. As I said elsewhere, the single stupidest political move I've seen

in my lifetime. I'm scots, and I know the look, and watching
him sit there waiting his turn to talk, there was no doubt in
my mind what was going to happen. It was clear he went in there
well prepared and not to be swayed from his course. These rubes
are used to dealing with people that are easily intimidated and
risk averse. There is nothing like the combination of arrogance
and ignorance to get you fucked up, and boy did Norm deserve it.

[Logansquare]

12. Well now, it would only be a stupid political move if we had a free press

It's been buried on pgs A18, etc. My mother in Ohio hadn't even heard of it or of George Galloway, so I'm sending her a clip and a transcript as a belated Mother's Day gift. Yes, I know what you mean about the look, although I'm only half scots through ancestry. Those reptilian, glittering eyes, waiting with icy calm for the stupid bunny to shut up.

[applegrove]

14. Scots are reptilian? I thought they were dour and honest? n/t

Tenatious, stubborn, hardworking, types who hate crooks!

[bemildred]

15. Tsk.

He didn't say anything about scots being reptilian.

[applegrove]

16. Try reading it my way? I had hoped he wasn't saying that. I tried

reading it your way.. and the reptilian eyes were watching a dumb bunny, and Galloway was not the dumb bunny that day?

Is it me? Is it too late or something? Should I just go to sleep?

[bemildred]

17. It says: "Those reptilian, glittering eyes ..."

Nothing about reptilian scots, and a perfectly clear simile.

[Logansquare]

19. Reptilian scots. I just had a vision of Godzilla in a kilt n/t

[Mokito]

18. Yes, and everybody loved Dinsdale,

but never you utter the name Doug!

[Boo Boo]

9. Here's the original link (from the Russian piece)

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6511

This has an image of the alleged forgery. If this is the actual document and not some sort of hoax, it wouldn't hold up for five minutes in court.

[kliljedahl]

10. Thanks

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Dancing_Dave]

13. Nothing produced against him would hold up in any court

Except a court who's judges sit in dread fear of crossing the neo-cons like ours!

Well, why DO we have such an outrageous percentage of the U.S. population in jail right now? And that's not even counting all those effectively blacklisted out of many kinds of employment by various neo-con fed information systems...a larger number than those affected by witch-hunts of the 1950's.

And so many of the "leaders" of the supposed "opposition" remain in denial about the Bush Administration's role in orchestrating 9/11, and even about the very easy electronic fraud which makes it impossible for this fear-paralyzed "opposition" to win any really crucial election. That's all the ingredients for Fascism right there.