From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 16:48:53 BST
Mark, David, Ian
>On 18 May 2005 at 21:30, David Buchanan wrote:
>
>The liberal talk radio network "Air America" was playing Galloway excerpts
>all
>day. He's become an instant hero in come circles and I was very impressed
>too. They're saying he "ripped the Senate Republicans a new asshole", which
>is an understated American way of saying he spanked them. In describing the
>case for war, he must have used the phrase "pack of lies" a dozen times.
>
>I love grown ups with spines. Wish there were a thousand more like him.
>
>msh:
>Me too. I gave up on commercial media several years ago. Don't have
>broadcast or cable TV, and never miss it, except in situations like
>this. I'd like to think that average Americans caught more than a
>glimpse of Galloway speaking truth to power, but I doubt that they did.
Ant McWatt comments:
I do as well though the few excerpts of Fox News that I managed to see
simply put a voice-over to cover much of what Galloway was saying. So much
for free speech. I don't know about how the other American TV broadcasters
treated the hearing.
As far as the UK concerned there were various non-obscured clips on most
networks though I don’t know how Sky News portrayed it (again, like Fox, I
would guess Galloway would have been censored). Anyway, for anyone
interested, the whole 47 minute video of George Galloway’s testimony can be
found at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8868.htm
A transcript of most of Galloway’s testimony is found at the same web
address and I provide a “highlight” below – not that reading about the mass
killing of children can really be thought of as a “highlight”.
Best wishes,
Anthony.
==================================================
“Now, Senator [Norm Coleman], 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 have 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.”
“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 Halliburton 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.”
.
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