MSNBC: UK's Galloway blisters US policy on Iraq - (VIDEO and AUDIO)

[dzika]

May 17, 2005

Video - MSNBC: UK's Galloway blisters US policy on Iraq

You must watch this. Dial-up and MP3 audio versions are also provided.



Video in Real Media format (4 minutes)

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[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Heard some on Franken.

His testimony is so raw, so pointed and truthful, that it may be the reason for the Newsweek-gate media attack.

[chelsea0011]

2. If we can only get someone from our own Congress to speak like Galloway

Direct attack on the lies of this administration.:kick:

[bleever]

3. Nominated. This was incredible. Truly amazing.

Thanks, dzika.

[kerrygoddess]

4. Some text here...

British Lawmaker Issues Scathing Words for Neocons
17 May 2005


British lawmaker George Galloway, implicated in the Iraq oil-for-food program, said today he word reject the charges against him a U.S. Senate hearing and issued some scathing words for the “Republican lynch mob.” Galloway was a witness today before the committee examining the United Nations oil-for-food program.

“This group of neocons (neoconservatives) is involved in the mother of all smokescreens,” he said of the committee. “I want to turn the tables on this neocon, pro-Israel, pro-war, Republican lynch mob.”

He earlier told Reuters that he had "no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon (President) George Bush who is pro-war.”

MORE - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=904

[ewagner]

5. Can "they" refute

ONE
SINGLE
WORD ?


of this man's testimony? I don't think so....the infamous "THEY" is, of course the neocons....the best they will be able to do is attack him personally....or accuse HIM of name calling....his facts are irrefutebale.

[dogday]

6. nominated-thanks for this....

[understandinglife]

7. dzika, you are a champion!! Thank you! Thank you, once again!

Nominated.

Oh, and here's an interesting tidbit on how they tried to frame Galloway:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3672704&mesg_id=3672704


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Griffy]

8. OK people.. time to act.. lets be the ECHO chamber....

Start Emailing the AFTERNOON shows NOW.. this is the kind of straight talk that we need!! For instance, Ed shultz will play this... and we need to .. to get off the fake Newsweek Rove crap and back on the WAR!!! and BACK to the Blair memo... THATS the key! can you see the way the media is starting to relize that bush wants them out of business, not just silent! They want nothing less than total media control.. state run media!

...like Rumsfeld said yesterday.. "some people have to watch what they say... and do" !!! If we don't act now.. we may never have the chance again!

[Griffy]

12. Lets Aim HIGH! get this on the EVENING NEWS!!!

oh.. think of the millions of American that would see it that are wondering why we are so angry at bush! They may see that THIS is why.. HE LIES .. we know it and they dont!

HELP me in writing the news..

....can someone help with media blaster?



.. just think of it...

[KoKo]

9. Excellent links even for my "Dial Up." A must watch for all!

[mhr]

10. Already Started Emailing This To Folks

It is too good to let slip by.

[progressoid]

11. Sweet Jesus, I need to see the rest of this

This is stunningly wonderful.

What senator was he addressing?

[ChiciB1]

20. Norm Coleman!

The puppet!

[progressoid]

21. Ha - too cool!!

[Larkspur]

13. Galloway for President of US and PM of Great Britain!

Wish we could clone him before he return to Britain. He is what we need against the Neo-cons.

Great verbal attacks by George.

[wtmusic]

35. Galloway vs. Schwarzenegger in '08

Just one amendment away!

[Oreo]

14. Absolutely amazing

Take that Normie you pathetic puppet

[PunkPop]

15. Thank you. Emailed it out.

Awwwwwwweeeeeeesssssooooommmmmme!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tinoire]

16. Bookmarked for later this afternoon. Thanks n/t

[undeterred]

17. Heard some on Franken, and it was blistering.

[dicknbush]

18. CALL NORMS'S OFFICE 202 224 5641

AND JUST HAVE THE AUDIO OF GEORGE READY TO PLAY AND WHEN THEY ANSWERE JUST START THE TAPE AND LET THEM LISTEN TO THE TRUTH SPEAKING TO POWER!

[ChiciB1]

19. Great Work...

I started a thread as soon as I saw him. Some got to see it before it got pulled.

Thanks for the info... we have to JUMP this story BIG TIME!

MSM is MUM now! Boy how obvious can you get?????

[Q]

22. Coleman: he's a lick-spittle, crazed neocon..."

British lawmaker George Galloway, implicated in the Iraq oil-for-food program, said today he word reject the charges against him a U.S. Senate hearing and issued some scathing words for the “Republican lynch mob.” Galloway was a witness today before the committee examining the United Nations oil-for-food program.

“This group of neocons (neoconservatives) is involved in the mother of all smokescreens,” he said of the committee. “I want to turn the tables on this neocon, pro-Israel, pro-war, Republican lynch mob.”

He earlier told Reuters that he had "no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon (President) George Bush who is pro-war.”

“I come not as the accused but as the accuser,” he added.

Galloway offered some choice words for Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, as well.

“It’s Mr. Coleman who’s been all over the news and he’s a lick-spittle, crazed neocon who is engaged in a witch hunt against all those he perceives to have betrayed the United States in their plan to invade and occupy Iraq,” Galloway told Associated Press Television News.

Galloway said he does not expect to change the minds of the committee but would “appeal to public opinion and to show just how absurd this report is,” he said. “Justice George Bush style ... is what I expect from the rightwing hawks in Washington.”

“I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader, and neither has anyone on my behalf,” he told the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as he began refuting the committee’s accusations that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein gave him credits to export Iraqi oil.

“I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf,” Galloway said, claiming that the documents the Senate subcommittee relied on had been forged and were proven as such in Britain.

Addressing the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, he added: “Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice.”

He called the Bush administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq "a pack of lies" and said investigators should instead focus on U.S. companies that dealt with Saddam. "The real sanctions busters were your own companies," he told senators.

Update (10:55 am, pst): Links to video and audio via 'dzika' on DU -

[DemReadingDU]

23. Wow!

Thanks for sharing this video Dzika!!

[dicknbush]

24. Breathe DEEP................

This man is like a refreshing wind coming in off the ocean and blowing away all the pollution. Like a fresh drink of water after a long walk in the desert!!!

Thank you Norm Coleman for inviting a man to speak who nows how to express the truth from his heart and show you puny little winps for what you are, little puppits for your master, idiot BUSH

[KoKo]

25. Kick...

[Beacho]

26. omigawd

That effing rocked!

I saw the link at crooksandliars.com and my only problem is that I didn't get to see that weasel Colman sweat blood.


Too see such courage and conviction has bolstered my effort to see these bastards hang slowly and painfully.

[DemoTex]

27. Best-smackdown-ever!

Jack up the roof, it's gonna fall! The truth is being sung in Scottish brogue in the US Senate. What a sound for sore ears.

[kerrygoddess]

28. Waxman Calls for Hearings on the Successor to Oil for Food Program

Waxman Calls for Hearings on the Successor to Oil for Food Program, DFI Run by Bush Administration
17 May 2005



Today, Henry Waxman who serves on the House Committee investigating the U.N. Oil for Food program, issued a call to investigate “abuses in the Development Fund for Iraq , the successor to the Oil for Food program run by the Bush Administration.”

It’s about time someone called the Bush administration on their own stink! They are putting the blame on everyone else while covering up their own dirt. Earlier today, I reported on British lawmaker George Galloway’s scathing words for the Senate Committee investigation on the Oil for Food program. Galloway called the investigation the “mother of all smokescreens.”

“…while Congress has held more than a dozen hearings to actively and aggressively investigate Oil for Food, we have held not one single hearing on the successor program, the Development Fund for Iraq. The Development Fund for Iraq, known as the DFI, was established so that the proceeds from Iraq's oil resources would continue to be used to benefit the Iraqi people. The Bush Administration took control over the DFI from the U.N. shortly after the war in Iraq began.

The DFI has been seriously mismanaged. Although it has not been widely reported, U.S. officials charged with overseeing the reconstruction of Iraq have found that the Administration failed to properly account for more than $8 billion in DFI funds. The Administration has failed to account for nearly $100 million in cash that was intended to go to local reconstruction projects in Iraq. Furthermore, the Administration has blacked out evidence of overcharges to the DFI from reports submitted to international auditors.

MORE & Links - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=906

[katinmn]

29. thank you, dzika

:applause:

[Rambis]

30. I would vote for this man in any election anywhere on the planet!

Straight talk what a fucking concept! The truth what a concept! I fear for this man's life!

[babsbunny]

31. I want to have his children!

What an awesome man!!! This should encourage others to speak out!!

[FrenchieCat]

32. Now.....

that's what I'm talking about!

Loved it!

Kicking ass and taking numbers.

Why did it take a Scotsman for me to have felt American again?

Now, I'm gonna watch it again....just cause it makes me feel just so normal.

[CJCRANE]

33. More truth in 4 minutes

than some can muster in 4 years.

[KoKo]

34. Kick!

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. OMG

That was awesome.

Georgie boy's gonna be pissed.

[KoKo]

37. Kick for those who missed it and the Midnight Owls.....

[Ksec]

38. Can Galloway become an American politician?

We need him. A man with cajones. I was thrilled to watch Galloway bitchslap Norm Coleman. Coleman looked like a little girl stammering. My apologies to little girls.

[KoKo]

40. Kick....there are still folks who haven't seen this...

:kick:

[eridani]

39. Well, if he doesn't want to become an American citizen--

--maybe he'd let a medical tech siphon off a few of his osteoblasts for insertion into Dem spines over on this side of the pond?

[windbreeze]

41. DAMN

He handed them their ass on a sling...Bet Norm Coleman is sorry he subpoened him..Straight up and straight out...I like this guy...
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