'Groundhog Day' for Gorgeous George
Despite winning a large amount of money in a liable case from the Daily Telegraph and possessing a passion for litigation that has bloggers quaking, the Saddam's stooge allegations just won't leave our fiery friend alone.
Galloway with Tariq Aziz
A US Senate Committee has concluded the following:
"The evidence obtained by the sub-committee, including Hussein-era documents from the ministry of oil and testimony from senior Hussein officials, shows that Iraq granted George Galloway allocations for millions of barrels of oil under the oil-for-food programme.
"Moreover, some evidence indicates that Galloway appeared to use a charity for children's leukaemia to conceal payments associated with at least one such allocation."
French Satire
There were further shocks, as the US Government report also fingered a Frenchman - the former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. Both Galloway and the French had close ties with the Saddam regime and vehemently opposed the American led invasion.
Galloway has hit back, claiming the report is "merely the repetition of false accusations that have been made and denied before. Something does not become true because it is repeated by George Bush's Senate majority." He turned on his accusers calling them "a lickspittle Republican committee, acting on the wishes of George W Bush"
The kind of Bush Gorgeous
George doesn't like…
Be in no doubt of Gorgeous George's intentions: "These are the same false allegations which are still the subject of a libel action with the Daily Telegraph - so far I'm £1.6m up".
The UN also opposed the American led military action in Iraq. The same US Senate committee report brands the UN oil-for-food programme as "The biggest fraud in history".
Galloway with Tariq Aziz
A US Senate Committee has concluded the following:
"The evidence obtained by the sub-committee, including Hussein-era documents from the ministry of oil and testimony from senior Hussein officials, shows that Iraq granted George Galloway allocations for millions of barrels of oil under the oil-for-food programme.
"Moreover, some evidence indicates that Galloway appeared to use a charity for children's leukaemia to conceal payments associated with at least one such allocation."
French Satire
There were further shocks, as the US Government report also fingered a Frenchman - the former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. Both Galloway and the French had close ties with the Saddam regime and vehemently opposed the American led invasion.
Galloway has hit back, claiming the report is "merely the repetition of false accusations that have been made and denied before. Something does not become true because it is repeated by George Bush's Senate majority." He turned on his accusers calling them "a lickspittle Republican committee, acting on the wishes of George W Bush"
The kind of Bush Gorgeous
George doesn't like…
Be in no doubt of Gorgeous George's intentions: "These are the same false allegations which are still the subject of a libel action with the Daily Telegraph - so far I'm £1.6m up".
The UN also opposed the American led military action in Iraq. The same US Senate committee report brands the UN oil-for-food programme as "The biggest fraud in history".
I was watching this thing on "BBC2 on BBC4" yesterday. The US woudl only complain about anything manipulative and cunning in terms of getting oil and using it if they aren't getting more than their share of it.
Tuvalu, a small island in the South Pacific, is sinking. Or rather, the ocean is rising, and it only need sto get a couple of metres up and there won't be a Tuvalu any more. But America won't commit to reducing its emissions, cause it might mean they have to pay more than 50p for a dozen eggs, and more than 20p for a litre of fuel. They say that 'developing nations' have not been asked to reduce their emissions, so why shoudl the US? They're like a fat kid who wants a burger cause a skinny kid is eating one. This has only a limited connection to the Oil-For-Food thing, but I still think that a little oil their way and they'd be quite happy about it. Or indeed anything. And it made me sad that an entire country was being swallowed. Especially a country with a Prime Minister that literally every citizen knew personally.
Which leads us into a discussion of whether 60 million citizens is too big a country for a democracy. !0,000 would be better. Let's create the Democratic Republic of Grantham.
Posted by
Matt |
Thu May 12, 12:11:00 pm
there's already a movement for the Peoples Socialist Workers Republic of South Yorkshire.
Would the Democratic Republic of Grantham prove a threat to them?
ahh... Nation building - like nailing jelly to a wall.
Posted by
Ben |
Thu May 12, 12:19:00 pm
The BBC have an entertaining profile of Gorgeous George on their web-site
Posted by
Ben |
Thu May 12, 03:41:00 pm
Too simplistic I'm afraid. Tuvalu is where the .tv extension comes from, and they sold it to American businessmen for $14M, which funded their sending a delegate to the UN for a few years, to represent their views on climate change. Your computer was bastarded by someone who lived elsewhere but who bought a Tuvalu (.tv) website, I expect, and the guys who do it won't sink when Tuvalu does. They'll just do it from somewhere else.
Anyway I expected you'd be the first person to defend an entire nation over a £20 phone bill.
Posted by
Matt |
Fri May 13, 11:56:00 am
never heard of it - send in the B52s anyway!
Posted by
Ben |
Fri May 13, 01:14:00 pm
no, I like the bombing idea.
Posted by
Ben |
Mon May 16, 09:44:00 am
Ok, but only if we use bombs with low carbon emissions that use renewable energy sources. I'll settle for nuclear, as it doesn't burn much carbon.
Posted by
Matt |
Mon May 16, 07:35:00 pm
I agree. Nuclear is the best option when dealing with a small country that doesn't own nuclear weapons.
First we need to find out if Tuvalu is friends with N.Korea or Iran or France, or any other crazy country with nukes. Otherwise, it's a go.
:-)
Posted by
Ben |
Thu May 19, 12:42:00 pm
yep, def. not pick on them!
Posted by
Ben |
Thu May 19, 03:15:00 pm
Crikey - there's a lot of crazy countries out there. It's a good thing we're not one of them. With nuclear weapons. That attacks people because our friends do.
Oh.
Posted by
Matt |
Thu May 19, 04:34:00 pm