The Mother Of All Smokescreens

TheSenatorialFishFry
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Our favorite renegade British politician, George Galloway is at it again, speaking truth to power.

Galloway: "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. 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."

Galloway also used his appearance before the committee to hammer away at the long record of U.S. support for Saddam Hussein, in particular the current U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Galloway: I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, one in 1994 and once in August of 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as many meetings with Saddam Hussein. As a matter of fact, I've met with Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps to better target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war and on the second of two occasions I met him to try and persuade him to allow Dr. Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country. A rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defense made of his."

Why invoke the name of Al Franken you might be asking?

After all, what could Stewart Smalley possibly have in common with a man who stands his ground and flings the Waterheads excrement right back at them?

Because if Mr. Franken were to run for the American Senate in 2006, it would likely be against Norm Coleman in Minnesota, the Senator who has been instrumental in the McCarthy-like Re-Thug attempt to slime Mr. Galloway.

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Thanks to Leah of Corrente for resurrecting our original piece on this one, which she stumbled upon via a Trackback to one kinghell chunk of writing by James Wolcott.
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