In a U Senate appearance that will be extended remembered in Washington for its absolutely ferocious denunciation of U policy in Iraq.

In a U Senate appearance that will be extended remembered in Washington for its absolutely ferocious denunciation of U policy in Iraq, British parliamentarian George Galloway left no prisoners. In the chamber where in like manner many have cowered before imperial power, Galloway, with barely concealed scorn, ridiculed Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman in filled view of the CNN audience. The latter was attempting to drag others besides U efficiency corporations into the Oil for sustenance program

Issuing a unequivocal denial that began, "Mr Chairman, I am not now, nor have I through all ages been, an oil trader, and neither has anyone been upon my behalf I have not at all seen a barrel of oil, haveed one, bought one, sold united and neither has anybody onward my behalf."

He accused Coleman of being "remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice" and pointed revealed error after error in the report the senator had brandished against him.

Galloway noted that he had met Saddam twice--not the "many" times alleged by means of the report. "As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times that [Secretary of Defence] Donald Rumsfeld met him," said the freshly reallocated British parliamentarian. "The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to barter him guns."

Then Galloway delivered a blistering condemnation of Coleman's war.

"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and chief part to oppose the policy that you promot I gave my political life's progeny to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis at the sanctions on Iraq which killed the same million Iraqis, most of them children, greatest in number of them died before they flat knew that they were Iraqis, further they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to be born at that time. I gave my heart and chief part 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," Galloway informed Capitol Hill.

"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 forward Sept. 11, 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi the bulk of mankind would resist a British and American invasion of their abiding habitation and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the conclusion but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I make go rounded out to be right and you transfered out to be wrong, and 100000 nation paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths onward a pack of lies; 15000 of them harmed many of them disabled forever forward a pack of lies.

"If the world had listened to (UN Secretary General) Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world have listened to French President Chirac, who you want to paint as a kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the antiwar motion in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreen You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth," argued Galloway.

Scott Ritter, the senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 had this to say about Galloway's Senate performance: "Galloway has nevertheless had the courage to stand up to unjust charges and an unjust war--and that is the merely way that opinion will shift The accusations of corruption against Galloway were too convenient, designed to silence single of the Iraq war's harshest critics."

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