Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington

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by John Nichols

Norm Coleman is a fool.

Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot -- just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie
fool.

The Minnesota Republican senator who took Paul Wellstone's seat after one of the most disreputable campaigns in
American political history has been trying over the past year to make a name for himself by blowing the controversy
surrounding the United Nations Oil for Food program into something more than the chronicle of corporate abuse that
it is. The US media, which thrives on official sound bites, was more than willing to lend credence to Coleman's
overblown claims about wrongdoing in the UN program set up in 1996 to permit Iraq -- which was then under strict
international sanctions -- to buy food, medicine and humanitarian supplies with the revenues from regulated oil sales.
Even as Coleman's claims became more and more fantastic, he faced few challenges from the cowering Democrats
in Congress.

But when Coleman started slandering foreign politicians, he exposed the dramatic vulnerability of his claims that the
supposed scandal was much more than a blatant example of US corporations taking advantage of their powerful
connections in Washington to undermine official US policy, harm the national interest and profit off the suffering of
the poor.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0518-28.htm

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[Cha]

1. This is a keeper! I

was fortunate enough to catch Mr Galloway on charlierose saying much of this ..right back in, the propoganda pushing, charlie's face!

And I've written George Galloway an e-mail to thank him for what he's done for us.

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2. i love it just for

the opening statements on coleman.

i have read also Galloway's comments on the support he rec'd from the world.
""We blew them away," an emotional Galloway told a rally in London after giving
evidence to the panel examining how former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein used oil
to reward politicians.

"From the emails and feedback we've had from all over the world it is true undoubtedly
that there was a worldwide audience out there waiting for someone to speak the truth
to power," he added. "

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0519-08.htm

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