Victorious Galloway demands inquiry - Democratic Underground

Bonhomme Richard

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Fri Mar-19-04 08:25 AM
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Victorious Galloway demands inquiry

"The controversial anti-war MP George Galloway demanded a government inquiry today after a US newspaper which falsely accused him of accepting $10m from Saddam Hussein apologized and paid undisclosed damages.

The article in the Christian Science Monitor was based on documents given to a journalist by an Iraqi general. But tests showed that the documents, dated between 1992 and 1993, were in fact only a few months old."

So there you have it. More utter BS from the right. I wonder if this will get much play here or if Hannity and others apologize.
The Link:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1173647,00.html

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gottaB

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Fri Mar-19-04 08:45 AM
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1. Agreed--he was wronged, and it's worse than vanilla libel

"The general who passed on these documents is known. I want the British embassy to launch an investigation to find out why he did it, on whose behalf, and what other documents he has forged. They are very elaborate documents and were not cooked up in someone's kitchen. It is a systematic conspiracy."

This is anti-democratic, the journalistic equivalent of state-sponsored terrorism.

Galloway went from being an effective critic of the invasion to being a pariah in a matter of days--it's intolerable.

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keithyboy

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Fri Mar-19-04 08:49 AM
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2. And people here wonder why the "tin foil hats."

There is absolutely nothing that I would put past this regime and the other regimes in power...especially the media regimes.

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Bonhomme Richard

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Fri Mar-19-04 08:50 AM
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3. There is nothing, nothing that this bunch.......

is not capable of doing.
It is an important lesson for all of us.

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