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Subject: Fwd: [deeplistening] British MP speaks truth to power (below)

Or check out article and video at the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/05/17/VI200505170071
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>Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:34:43 EDT
>Subject: [deeplistening] British MP speaks truth to power
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>This is wonderful. A British MP, George Galloway, hauled before a
>Senate committee on false accusations of corruption in the Oil for
>Food program, turned the tables on his accusers and let them have
>it. For the whole story, go to
><http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051805Z.shtml>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2
005/051805Z.shtml
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>Here is an excerpt of his testimony:
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>"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.
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>     "In the same week as the Daily Telegraph published their
>documents against me, the Christian Science Monitor published theirs
>which turned out to be forgeries and the British newspaper, Mail on
>Sunday, purchased a third set of documents which also upon forensic
>examination turned out to be forgeries. So there's nothing fanciful
>about this. Nothing at all fanciful about it.
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>     "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.
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>     "Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy
>that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop
>the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one
>million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they
>even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason
>other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that
>time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster
>that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your
>case for the war was a pack of lies.
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>     "I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not
>have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your
>claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world,
>contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity
>on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the
>Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their
>country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of
>the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
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>     "Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be
>right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with
>their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on
>a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled
>forever on a pack of lies.
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>     If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you
>demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want
>to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened
>to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the
>disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all
>smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes
>that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's
>wealth.
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>     "Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at
>the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months
>when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have
>a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not
>only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.
>
>     "Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you
>were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which
>went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to
>American military commanders to hand out around the country without
>even counting it or weighing it.
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>     "Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers
>today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the
>biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or
>French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own
>companies with the connivance of your own Government."
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