I could select a DU hero of the week, it would be Brit MP George Galloway

The man tore Norm Coleman a new asshole.

“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,”

We should have him over a few more times to tell truth to power.

“I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever and you call that justice.”

I wish that I could have seen his testimony on CSPAN, so I could see the pissed off reaction on Norm Coleman's face.

“I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns,”

Looks like that Senate Sub Committee fucked with the wrong Scot.

“What counts is not the names on the paper. What counts is where’s the money, Senator? Who paid me money, Senator? Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today.”

Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Looks like those Republicans had gotten their clocks cleaned.

“I am not sure how much credibility anyone would put on anything which you managed to get from a prisoner in those circumstances,”

It's amazing how much kool-aid people drink in this country, but when you leave our boundaries, the kool-aid quickly loses its potency.


“Senator, in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies,”

WAY TO FUCKING GO, YOU TELL 'EM, GEORGE!

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=143299644&p=y433xx35x

here.... nice to hear someone throwing their doo doo back in their faces.

that nomination......

This guy was great!

cut to Normie's face but they never did until the very end and Normie-boy was pretty dead-panned. I wondered if he'd had earplugs in and hadn't heard a word. Amazing meditative control I must say. I expected to see a red face and smoke coming out of his ears.

DU Hero of the Week is a great idea!

47 minutes

but you (sad to say) only saw Galloway. Never did see Coleman just his voice.

We have to back away from Galloway because of what Little Green Snotballs , Faux, and freepers might say about us.

After watching George Galloway stand up to the bullying, McCarthy tactics with such eloquence and directness, I would agree that he is the DU Hero of the Week. Now, he is a man who speaks directly with confidence and passion. It was a lesson on what true leaders in this country should be asking/confronting.

:applause:

After that horrible sham by Coleman, Mr. Galloway can now see why HALF of America is totally on a different page of facts than the rest of the western world including Britain where the country is in total agreement on the facts of Iraq along with the American Left. The media here enables he said/she said BS by people like Coleman rather than putting them to task on the facts.

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Top notch guest! Why can't American discourse be like this? Having watched politics in Britain on occasion, I can give one possible reason:

Politics on TV in Britain is much less lenient than here. AS USUAL, people like Coleman are empowered to go on TV and ramble off talking points and say very little without being held accountable for any veracity. (THANKS CHRIS!...and all you "celebrity journalists"). Galloway did not mince his words and was very incisive. A product of a more scrutinious and serious system.

From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday May 17

Explosive showdown in Senate
By Matthew Davis
BBC News, Washington

. . . Outside in a corridor (Galloway) told reporters he thought he had put the committee on the ropes, saying of Mr Coleman: "He's not much of a lyncher."

The senators, however, were playing down the confrontation.

"This was not a wrestling match," Mr Coleman protested. "It wasn't a contest."

Asked his reaction to the "unusual" manner of the witness, he replied: "I was not offended by what he had to say, it was not relevant.

"The theatre, the dramatics - I was not looking at that. I had one goal and it was to make a record."

The pundits disagreed. One observer of Capitol Hill politics declared the result: "Galloway by a knockout - before round five."

Others cast the confrontation as Braveheart on Capitol Hill.

Read more.

To George Galloway: :toast:

"They had a tape on CBC radio from the past where he said he hated the UN Oil for Food Program and it was killing people and the UN program should be stopped"

He said the exact same thing today...

"I think he got fooled by Saddam Hussein"

That is rididiculous. I share his opinions on the genocidal sanctions and the UN oil for food programme 100% and I can assure you that I have not been fooled by Saddam Hussein.

erase.

In all his political career he has supported Arab populations. He was anti-Saddam during the 80s, undoubtedly - his claim that he was protesting about Saddam while Rumsfeld was doing business with him is true, I think. But when Iraq invaded Kuwait, he was against sending in troops. This is where the controversy starts - his enemies say he started supporting Saddam, while he says he was on the side of the Iraqi people who would be killed in the Gulf War. I wasn't paying enough attention to judge then, and I despair of finding an unbiased judgement of it now.

In the 90s, he campaigned to get the Iraq sanctions lifted, saying they were killing Iraqis. While the oil-for-food programme was better than nothing, he still wanted the sanctions ended, which would have been the end of the programme. I think he's always been quite open about that; and the sanctions, at least as implemented under US and UK control, did cause suffering in Iraq. It's not that unreasonable a position he held about them.

but likely didn't realize the 'earlier recording' about his view on the UN Oil for Food Program were from today.

I still say someone somewhere is lying. I hope he is the populist he seems to be. We need those types of leaders.

smeared by accusations of taking kickbacks - read a bit about the career of Arthur Scargill and you will see what I mean. The idea is always the same - you throw enough shit at the target, and eventually some of it will stick. I think that those in Britain who do not support Galloway because he is 'controversial' or 'dodgy' really need to get a grip and grow a collective spine, but maybe that's harsh and bitter. To put it another way, when you are in a streetfight, you need a streetfighter on your side. Galloway is ours.

seems to be.

You may not know him, but he is a well-known and seasoned British politician, known as a "leftist" and a bit of a troublemaker.

as he said Rummy's name while you could sense the scorn and contempt coming through in his voice too.

*boink*

probably secretly enjoyed it.

A hero, indeed. Go get 'em, Galloway!

Bitchslapping Hitchens was an excellent addition

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RL