5/17/2005

Gorgeous, George.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars, British Parliament member George Galloway tore Minnesota’s own Senator Norm Coleman a new one today in response to accusations that Galloway was profiting from corruption in the Iraqi Oil-For-Food program.

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.
. . .
I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies. 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 September 11th, 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. Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong, and a hundred-thousand people have paid with their lives.

. . .
Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens, you are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported.


Sorry Norm. Your claim to fame will always be bringing pro hockey back to Minnesota when you were mayor of St. Paul. At some point the real world will beckon and you'll have to pull your foam finger out of your ass to face it.

5/18 UPDATE: CNN at last has a "rush transcript" up (certainly better than my five minute abbreviated attempt above). Highly recommended reading.

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