Galloway-To-Go
This guy eloquently kicks the collective asses of US accusers who tried to blame him for their crimes: IOL: Galloway angrily rebukes US Senators' claims
See video, hear audio here. And, notice this quote:
See video, hear audio here. And, notice this quote:
"...the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil - more than the rest of the world put together. 'The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions,' the report said. 'On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales.'"
posted by SheaNC at 9:50 AM
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Hi Shea, I have a Brit bud, and he says that this guy doesn't have a lot of credibility over there. He said he would be the equivalent of McDermott or a DeLay. Of course I don't know much about him, but he seems to feed into the "Blame America First" crowd...
Regards,
-Jack
HOWEVER, Shea, I wouldn't doubt anything about OUR politicians...(particularly our Senators)
I think he feeds into the blame America crowd first because we started an illegal war. The problem over there is that the guy is viciously outspoken and he lacks credibility among warmongers; most antiwar people do. Even though he got booted from the Labour party, he formed his own party and recently WON his election. I watched the whole testimony (twice) and the guy tore those senators a new asshole. Oh, and Im sure he was not too happy about being deemed guilty when he had never spoken to anyone here about this accusation. Our people have only Norm Coleman, Carl Levin and the U.S. government to blame; Galloway defended himself angrily, but effectively and articulately. The two weasel senators never actually refuted any of Galloway's defense; they essentially showed they lost their argument when all Coleman could muster was that Galloway had no credibility, although he did not say how. Who is this pussy Norm Coleman? Well he could not beat WWF bodyslam master Jesse the Body for governor, and he is only in the senate because Paul Wellstone died. Where is the credibility lacking? I would say within those who voted for an illegal war, whose repeated lies were exposed and then try to throw up the "mother of all smokescreens." And Levin was even worse; after Coleman got abused, this little bitch did not dare go after Galloway, but simply asked irrelevant hypothetical questions totally non-germaine to the issue at hand. As much of a coward as Coleman is, Levin is even worse, sorry Democrats. Embarrasingly enough for our country, the man who made me embarrassed that we are represented by these self-aggrandizing maggots is the one who sounded credible. If you ask me, he exposed these senators for what they are; chickenshit liars, democrats and republicans alike. He exposed their phony accusations for what they are; a feeble smokescreen. As you can tell by my profane rant, the arrogance of these senators infuriated me; they are wasting their time with something to try and save face while the rest of the world is a mess. I call for the impeachment of Carl Levin and Norm Coleman.
Jack, the "Blame America First" crowd!? America was doing the blaming first. Galloway was responding! And best of all, he was right!
What I meant, Shea is that anyone who gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar (as he was and is) blames America. All the earth's ills are a result of America. Noah's flood, the Holocaust, the Middle Ages, the Spanish Inquisition--all because of America. You know the crowd (although I don't believe you're a part of it). Shea, having lived overseas most of my life I recognize them pretty quickly. Both foreign and domestic.
The most interesting thing is that what people all over the world hate worse than Americans are Americans who don't appreciate their own country. As one of my Aussie friends says, "The only thing worse than a Yank, is a yank who doesn't want to be one".
That's the "blame America first crowd" I'm talking about.
CH, I'm not as well versed on the whole issue as you are--Just reporting what I was told.
Fair enough. I took it as an affront, but since I understand where you are coming from now, I cannot disagree or be offended by what you have to say. You are right, wolnosc. I will say, without hesitation, that you have a perspective and I appreciate it. Of course, we know little of each other, but I will say I am one always ready to hear what it is I might not want to hear. I want truth. But I am not changing anything in the world being here. While, yes, some may perceive your comments to be that of an asshole, I do not. I sense from you passion and desire for truth. I am not insulted by you, I am enlightened. I do not accomplish anything here other than venting; I guess some of us feel so helpless that that is all we can do: bitch about how messed up everything is. For me, at least, you have provided a wake up call I guess, wolnosc. "Now comes the challenge." I am being sincere when I ask, what is that challenge in your eyes? I despise corruption, I despise hypocrisy, I despise dishonesty. As naive as this may sound, how does a 24 year old still trying to figure out what the hell to do with his life take a stand and rise up to that challenge? Believe me, even at my young age, I know I am being fucked and I do care. I know how much our government wastes and lies to us.
Believe me, I love the situation I was born into, and I am greatful for it. I have an idea of what poverty and injustice there is in the world, but honestly, I have no experience of it. I do not want to experience it, I hate that others have to. And I do not want to be sequestered either.
And Jack, Im with you. I am just a little bit bitter over the current state of the world. Galloway could be a crook for all I know.
Jack, I understand your point about the two blame America first crowds. My observation has been that a lot of right-wing media use the phrase "blame American first crowd" as an insult to the left, intended to challenge their patriotism by implying that they are anti-American, even if they accurately point out something bad that America has done. So, we seek the balance between the "blame America first" crowd and the "America is always blameless" crowd.
Really, America is not in a position to "cast the first stone." And in this case, the oil-for-food scandal, it appears that America's hand has grabbed a few macaroons from that cookie jar, too.
*disclaimer*
In my regards to my questions towards wolnosc, I did not offer a 6 day waiting period.
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