Just in time for Halloween

Galloway the ghoul lied under oath over Iraqi oil payments, according to a new U.S. Senate subcommittee report:

George Galloway, the British MP, was last night accused of lying by a US Congressional committee when he testified earlier this year that he had not received any United Nation food-for-oil allocations from the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

In a report issued here, Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman and his colleagues on the Senate Subcommittee for Investigations claim to have evidence showing that Mr Galloway’s political organisation and his wife received vouchers worth almost $600,000 (Â£338,000) from the then Iraqi government.

“We have what we call the smoking gun,” said Mr Coleman, who will send the report to the US Department of Justice and the British authorities. The MP could face charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a Congressional investigation. Each charge carries a possible jail term of five years and a fine of $250,000.

To the charges, Mr. Galloway responded:

“Charge me, please; prosecute me and I’ll be on the next plane to America,” Galloway said today.

Yes. Let’s!

As a side note, wouldn’t it be cool if Chris Hitchens could escort goulish George into the courtroom?

Hat tip: ST reader Fat Tone

9 Responses to "Just in time for Halloween"

Evon says:

October 25, 2005 at 10:02 am

Christopher Hitchens escorting George Galloway into the courtroom. That imagery is very satisfying.
Lorica says:

October 25, 2005 at 1:10 pm

How can this be??? He is a liberal, liberal’s never lie. Jane Fonda stood up for the man. He must be innocent. This is just not possible. Say it ain’t so George. /sarcasm Off 😆

I know he is innocent until proven guilty. But this man has been lying about this money for a very long time. The lack of coverage on the oil for food scandal has shown just how sad the MSM has become. Yet they want us to believe them in other issues. – Lorica
PCD says:

October 25, 2005 at 1:24 pm

Lorica,

Rush was commenting upon the columns in the NYTimes trashing J. Miller. His question about the MSM is if they were lying in 1998, what else are they lying about? Can we ever trust what the MSM is saying?
webmistress says:

October 25, 2005 at 3:50 pm

PCD,

And we all know that Rush never lies. Oh, wait a minute, he does have some problems telling the truth.

Rush: They wanted to cut some $500 billion, or $500 million from the food stamp program, from other programs, because the money wasn’t being used anyway.

Truth: An October 13 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette explained that the proposed food stamp cuts would have changed eligibility rules “so that those who qualify for state welfare assistance will no longer automatically qualify for food stamps” and instead would have to meet the federal means test applied to other food stamp recipients. According to Senate agriculture committee spokesman Keith Williams, that change would have pushed as many as 300,000 people off of food stamps.

LIMBAUGH: Hold it a second. You know, [caller’s name], you don’t even understand that. The deficit this year as a percentage of our gross domestic product is like somebody being — somebody that earns [$]500 grand being in debt [$]50,000, or something close to that. It’s not a big deal, and it’s coming down. We’re growing out of it. We grow out of every deficit we have. It’s not a monster. It’s not going to kill us. You are falling prey to talking points enunciated by ultra-liberals who do not have the best interest of this economy at heart anyway.

Truth: In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the current federal deficit as of July 7 for fiscal year 2004 is $328 billion, “about $58 billion more than the shortfall recorded in the same period last year.” Contrary to Limbaugh’s assertion that “We’re growing out of it [the deficit],” the CBO’s most recent set of budget projections for fiscal years 2004 through 2014 — published March 8, 2004 — projected that this year’s deficit will be $477 billion. This is more than $100 billion higher than the fiscal year 2003 figure of $375 billion, which was in turn higher than the fiscal year 2002 figure of $158 billion. While the CBO noted in its May 2004 Monthly Budget Review that “recent trends suggest that the deficit in 2004 will be less than the $477 billion that CBO projected in March,” it also noted that “the deficit will widen as the year goes on.”

Rush: But my comment about women having it a little easier — even today — if a man puts on his rÃ©sumÃ©, after working here five years I may want to go home and raise the kids for a couple of years, he’s never going to get hired. A woman can take that choice. She can take maternity leave of nine or 12 months or whatever, come back to the job that she’s got. She can choose to leave the job and then come back to it five or 10 years later, after motherhood. Father can’t do that. Man can’t do that. You’ve got far more options than men do in the workplace. And you always have had, with truth be known.

Truth: And as The Washington Post noted in a May 8 article, a Society for Human Resource Management study found that only 39 percent of 454 surveyed companies offered any family leave benefits beyond the requirements of the FMLA, and only 28 percent offered benefits that extended beyond state requirements. (Inserted comment–ever heard of the “mommy track”?)

RUSH: Let me tell you something, the Democrats are more fearful — and I’ve told you this too — they’re more fearful of Christians than they are of Al Qaeda. The Democrats are more fearful of Democrats [sic] than they are of Islamist terrorists living in this country. They are more fearful of Christians than they are of any enemy of the United States of America. They probably have more fear of Christians than they do nuclear weapons being launched by North Korea.

My comment: This is just a load of hooey!

Rush: And remember, back then in the ’80s, one of the accompanying — there — there — there — there was a lot of fear-mongering going on around — about AIDS, as a lot of people were scared about it. And one of the things that — that the — the AIDS activists said regularly back then was, oh, this is only a matter of time before it spreads to the heterosexual community. It’s only a matter of time.

And they used that as — as one of the weapons to try to get people like Reagan to start talking about it from their standpoint. And of course it — it hasn’t. It — it didn’t, and it hasn’t, other than in Africa, and in Africa it is — it is being spread not just by — it — it — it’s promiscuity that — that — that spreads this, if you want to know the truth. It’s promiscuity.

But it — it hasn’t made that jump to the heterosexual community.

Truth: According to basic statistics from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, as of December 2002, an estimated 135,628 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS as a result of heterosexual contact, compared with 420,790 from male-to-male sexual contact and with 59,719 from male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use; approximately 9,300 American children under age 13 had been infected with the disease by the end of 2002. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2004 “Facts and Figures” shows that, of new infections in the United States, 15 percent of men and 75 percent of women with AIDS were infected through heterosexual sex.

I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point.

–Mistress
Lorica says:

October 25, 2005 at 7:25 pm

LOL Mistress you are funny 🙂 I don’t even have to read this to tell you that you worked to hard on it. Now why would you bring up a totally off the wall tangent about Rush when the subject is George Galloway?? Hell’s bells Mistress Rush isn’t even mentioned in the story. He is brought up only as a side note to comments I made, and I did not mention him either. Now if there was a news story about Rush and honesty then you would have a point. But otherwise, no you really don’t. My Apologies. – Lorica
Bachbone says:

October 25, 2005 at 7:39 pm

Webmistress, what bearing does any of your attack on Rush have on PCD’s questions? Rush can be ___________(fill in the blank), but that has absolutely nothing to do with proven MSM lies, distortions, omissions and contortions. All any of your comment proves is that you know how to cut and paste from a liberal source.

A smidgen of my own googling shows that your Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article was an AP feed. We know how unbiased and accurate the AP is, don’t we.

The CBO’s October 6, 2005 Monthly Budget Review shows the 2005 Budget shortfall to be $96 billion less than in 2004, and that from 2006 – 2015 will see the deficit reduced from $314 billion to $57 billion. Since Bush hasn’t cut spending, for which conservatives have criticized him, that reduction must be through growth.

The WaPo FMLA article says that 39% of businesses surveyed “…offer family leave above required federal FMLA leave…” which means the other 61% provide at least what the feds require. 39% + 61% = 100% coverage, so the insinuation that only 39% get anything is bogus.

My comment about your “load of hooey” remark is that you are entitled to your opinion, just as are Rush and the rest of us. Christians are the bogeyman of the left. That’s my opinion.

When Rush’s mistakes are brought to his attention, he corrects them on the air in front of God and everybody. He doesn’t bury them on page z22 like the MSM.
webmistress says:

October 25, 2005 at 8:46 pm

I think my post is relavent. PCD cited Rush about the lies of the MSM. This is laughable. The MSM has been way off target on a lot lately, but Rush has a rotten track record as well.

I used to listen to him a fair amount but his constant distortions and bloviating became to tiresome for me.

I’m on the left, and Christians are not bogeymen to me. I know many Christians who consider themselves to be liberal. I happen to be married to one.

–Mistress
Baklava says:

October 25, 2005 at 9:51 pm

Webmistress wrote, “I think my post is relavent.”

It isn’t relevant.

Webmistress, would you oppose Galloway be charged for perjury?
Lorica says:

October 26, 2005 at 1:22 pm

Mistress No your comments are not relavent. You cannot, in all logic, defend George Galloway by saying Rush Limbaugh is a liar. There is no defense there.

Now to get the point. It will be interesting to hear how George Galloway will defend these payments. I can’t imagine why he would not have these in a numbered account in the Caymen Islands, or Bermuda. It really makes no sense. We shall see. – Lorica

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