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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Smilin' Norm's UN-quisition: More Galloway
From the Marxist Political Affairs. Galloway: "But perhaps you were confusing the Daily Telegraph action with the Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor did indeed publish on its front pages a set of allegations against me very similar to the ones that your committee have made. They did indeed rely on documents which started in 1992, 1993. These documents were unmasked by the Christian Science Monitor themselves as forgeries."Now, the neo-con websites and newspapers in which you’re such a hero, senator, were all absolutely cock-a-hoop at the publication of the Christian Science Monitor documents, they were all absolutely convinced of their authenticity. They were all absolutely convinced that these documents showed me receiving $10 million from the Saddam regime. And they were all lies. [...]
"The existence of forged documents implicating me in commercial activities with the Iraqi regime is a proven fact. It’s a proven fact that these forged documents existed and were being circulated amongst right-wing newspapers in Baghdad and around the world in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Iraqi regime."
The Scotsman summarizes Galloway's appearance thusly:
As Senator Norm Coleman summarised the evidence against Mr Galloway, the MP stared him down, challenging him to blink first. He did. That set the pattern for a hearing in which the MP’s accusers struggled to lay a glove on him....
Mr Galloway had promised to raise merry hell, threatening to take the senators out to the woodshed for a thoroughly merited thrashing. If he did not quite manage that, he nonetheless left his questioners baffled.
Meanwhile, Smilin' Norm's veneer has dimmed in India: The Telegraph - Calcutta:
His weak smile during and after the hearings, when he faced reporters, betrayed embarrassment that tables had been turned on America by a maverick British anti-war politician.
Mr. Galloway insisted that he was entirely innocent. He entered the hearing room with guns blazing, telling journalists his inquisitors were "crazed", "pro-war", "lickspittles" of the President, and predicting he would turn the tables on them.
"I want to put these people on trial. This group of neo-cons is involved in the mother of smokescreens," he said. ... They had come equipped for a trial and found themselves in the role of stooges for a man accustomed to playing to the gallery.
