GALLOWAY TRANSCRIPT HERE

[whosinpower]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html


All I can say is wow, wow, wow.

my favorite part -

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.



"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Thanks. Nominated. nt

[Just Me]

2. Oh, thank you, my dear. I'll print it and RELISH every word!!!!

Thank you!!!!

[ROH]

3. Powerful! Nominated.

[JanMichael]

4. But, but, but, but, but...Galloway is pinko commie!

Y'all have a hard-core Socialist as an idol now!

Bwahahahaha! Oh, wait, I'm one too:hide:

[meppie-meppie not]

7. why are people so afraid of socialism?

Medicaid is socialist, social security is socialist...socialist's believe the greatness of a society is not measured in the latest bombs a nation builds or monolithic buildings but rather in how they take care of the weakest members of their society.

[Just Me]

10. Two reasons: 1) it's misunderstood; 2) it's an enemy to corporacrats.

Of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong about a society which seeks to help the weaker members. To the contrary, pursuing the objective of assisting and strengthening people is a noble and moral cause.

[meppie-meppie not]

14. isn't that what Jesus would do? My, how quickly the religious

right rags forget!

[ROH]

5. Abu Ghraib Prison, Bagram Airbase, Guantanamo Bay...

"You quote Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Well, you have something on me, I've never met Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Your sub-committee apparently has. But I do know that he's your prisoner, I believe he's in Abu Ghraib prison. I believe he is facing war crimes charges, punishable by death. In these circumstances, knowing what the world knows about how you treat prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, in Bagram Airbase, in Guantanamo Bay, including I may say, British citizens being held in those places.

I'm not sure how much credibility anyone would put on anything you manage to get from a prisoner in those circumstances. But you quote 13 words from Dahar Yassein Ramadan whom I have never met. If he said what he said, then he is wrong."

[mogster]

6. Great! This man is such a rare juvel

Thanks for posting! :toast:

And the transcript can only partly describe the knife-sharp conviction with which he delivered his testimony. I watched this on Euronews earlier, and was enthralled by finally seeing good, old honesty again in politics. You could see he meant each word he said.

Galloway certainly deserves credit for this.

[Q3JR4]

8. That's it! You give it to those mofos good!

:woohoo: :applause:

[robertpaulsen]

9. Kicked, bookmarked, recommended!

:kick:

[Wildlander]

13. Stop typing and get busy! The time to act is now!

Ya know, this is the most incredable man I have heard speak in a very long time. As an American, this man has more balls, more ethics and the most respect I could ever, EVER give to a fellow human being.

Folks. Rather than just feel good about his words, we need to do something. NOW. To get behind his words and make it felt in America and around the world. The world needs to ACT in letting this man know he was heard! And that the world is behind him in more than just a bunch of words on a forum. Don't let the forums be your "be good, feel good" end all to the issue. Get out there and make a difference by getting in the their faces and speaking your minds.

Time for US to show our true colors! Civil disobedience is the key because words alone were never intended to be a final conclusion. There is more than one right given to the American people and they were MEANT to be used together in correcting what the forefathers anticipated would be a corrupt government some day. It is my time, your time - our time to make a difference in the world!

Tear their hearts out and rip them another asshole.

[pbartch]

11. I guess I'd chose these statements as my favorites ".......pack of lies"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html



Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

~~~~~~~>>>> If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.



GALLOWAY IS RIGHT ON!!!!

[Roland99]

12. One of the most beautiful pieces of testimony I've ever read!!

:applause: :applause:

[fishnfla]

15. Brilliant! A slam dunk!

I'd like to think we've seen a watershed moment in US history today. Just awesome. Those Scots, so fiery!

[mr blur]

16. And how about this bit?:

Mr Galloway said he had met Saddam Hussein on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war," he said.

[hexola]

17. THE GHOST OF PAUL WELLSTONE HAS SPOKEN!!! (nt)

[raysr]

18. Socialism:

was first applied in England to Owen's
theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those
also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however,
is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by
economists and learned critics. The general tendency is
to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by
society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social
reform which disturbs the present system of private
property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is
more and more to ally itself with the most advanced
democracy. --Encyc. Brit.
<1913 Webster>

[raysr]

19. I just read all

of Galloways testimony, ya think Coleman might've wet his panties a little?

[ktowntennesseedem]

28. I'm quite certain his Garanimals are soiled.

[sadiesworld]

20. WOW.

Just :wow:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

21. If that's not a look that could kill... I don't know what is.

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,200208,00.jpg

He's spot on!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

23. OH...SNAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<snip>

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.



"Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.



"Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it.



"Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government."


<snip>

[CoolOnion]

37. *sigh* I'm in love.

[Jacobin]

22. It's easy to see why the Scots were among the last people's conquered

by the British....

Galloway is a righteous freight train and the neo-con cabal not only blinked, but completely and utterly backed off. I predict this 'investigation' into Galloway will mysteriously fade away.

God for just a few splinters of his backbone for the U.S. Senate I would give my all

[me b zola]

24. Big thanks for the link

The first of his testimony I heard on KO, and Galloway almost knocked me out of my chair!


nominated

[tavalon]

25. I love the way he repeats "pack of lies"

no sugarcoating there.

[Paradise]

26. damn, that feels good! thanks wip. n/t

[ktowntennesseedem]

27. Galloway hates us for our freedoms. -nt

[Number9Dream]

29. Anybody have an email address to thank Galloway?

"Slugger" Galloway made me punch my fist in the air and exclaim, "Yes!"
I'd like to thank him personally, and maybe let people of the UK know how much his testimony meant to those of us who are fighting the neocons. Can anybody out there suggest some email addresses to write to?

[dooner]

30. Galloway's email address

I believe it is this: [e-mail]


There's also a web form here:

http://www.locata.co.uk/cgi-bin/webdriver?MIval=hoc_result&id=26

[Number9Dream]

32. Thanks, Dooner

I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance.

[GoSolar]

31. Wow!

I hope people are paying attention to this. But probably not (sigh).

[lies and propaganda]

33. Whosinpower- Thank YOU!

You rock! I enjoy reading transcripts way more than i do watching, though Mr. Galloway does have quite a lovely voice.

favorite part:
"As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defence made of his.

pretty much one of the best quotes EVER, and of course had to be made by a Brit, because they actually have balls. I wish he would have talked some shit on Blair, though.

[MasonJar]

34. Thanks for the link. I just e-mailed him a big THANK YOU. We

need to remember that the Brits do not let their politicians play tootsie with the press, etc. If Bush had to go to Parliment to support his policies, he'd be long gone.

[personman]

35. FULL video links?

Anyone? I already have the 4 minute version posted earlier, but that is only about the last 1/3rd of the speech it seems.

[CoolOnion]

36. I just sent him a love letter

I told him that if we had real news in the U.S., his statement would be carried at the top of the hour--as it is, I'm doing my nightly internet trawl for news of what's really going on.

Of course, if we had real news, Bush would never have been elected to anything, much less President, and we certainly wouldn't have declared war on a country that didn't do anything to us.

[Bryn]

38. I'm Speechless

and numb all over. Hard to believe a man like that still exists! Awesome!! Everything he said is so true.

My grandfather was a Scot!!

[dsnail]

39. Now if only Dems and Libs had Balls Like this Guy...

Some forgotten background on the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor hit attempts on Galloway:

Verifying the Evidence by Kim Petersen
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles6/Petersen_Galloway.htm

Presumed Innocence and Ad Hominem by Kim Petersen
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles4/Petersen_Galloway-Pilger.htm