[wjersey]

I didn't get to see, but did it really "went as well as Mr Galloway could have wished"?

[oolatec]

Yup.

[dts32041]

yup, the pubbies rolled up into the fetal position and went umm ummm, I just teddy the swimmer and other demo rats had been subjected to this over the years.

Our politicos need to be reminded they are the servants and no the slave masters.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Galloway had his political theater and sound bites. I guess
it is a vistory for him. The only way the UK does anything about him is if they have video of him receiving a suitcase full of illicit cash, preferably while smoking crack.

[Incorrigible]

I saw it and yes, it was like nothing I had ever seen before in a government hearing. Quite frankly, I wished that the Republicans during the Clinton years has as much Chutzpa as this guy. Galloway is a snake in the grass but he's also a showman extraordinaire.

[ClaireSolt]

It made me wonder what's the point of this investigation. We are indicting Americans. Do the others get off scot-free? I guess the latter is an unintended pun. :)

[kittymyrib]

If the Republicans had treated Billy Jeff the way Galloway treated the president and the investigating committee, the impeachment wouldn't have failed. He really knows how to dish it out, and the "distinguished gentlemen" of the Senate looked like scared women.

[veronica]

The leftist scum Galloway did everything but call Norm Coleman a dirty Jew. I am sure that that anti-semitic, America-hating wacko wanted to.

[wildcatf4f3]

He'll have lots of time to gloat in penitentiary.

[Peter Libra]

"Your hands are shaking."You badly need another drink".

Galloway to Christopher Hitchens. Ah yes Galloway. I will at least give our American friends this quote, from the Evening Standard(London April 21st) Paul Waugh and Flora Stubbs.

"Mr Galloway was electioneering on the Osier council estate in Bethnal Green last night, when a gang of 30 Muslim fundamentalists..... surrounded him and his supporters. They rejoice in the name. Hizb-ut-Tahrir. They said they were "setting up the gallows" for him "They warned any Muslim voting for Galloway faced "a sentence of deathe". (The article goes on. "Mr Galloway was forced to hide in his car in an alley.....

In the meantime between Galloway's supporters and the Islamists, "there were punches and kicks thrown" ,to quote a resident. "The police saved my life" said Galloway. Problems in the USA? yer' lucky, Galloway.

He does not realise the monster he has helped create, may one day destroy HIM.

[norton]

I have no idea why the US congress called him to testify.

I have no knowledge of any legal basis for his testimony.

But I do, by God, know why he came, and why he used the time to preach, and what effect it can have on his career and on the legitimate investigation of Oil for goodies....

Nice job Congress!

[Unam Sanctam]

They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens".

Did he really say those terms in the testimony? Somehow the snippet I saw on CNN didn't include that, just the slur about being a lawyer and justice.

[DB]

I'm sure after that performance the CIA and others are very busy. No stone will be left unturned. I can't wait until he burns.

[popdonnelly]

"The mother of all smokescreens"? He gets his rhetoric, as well as his pounds sterling, from Saddam?

[popdonnelly]

I would respect arguments presented by an honorable man. I don't believe Galloway fits that description. More like a British Ward Churchill.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability.

And the best part about it was that since it was George Galloway, I only had to salute with one finger.

[cyncooper]

I didn't get to see, but did it really "went as well as Mr Galloway could have wished"?

I saw it.

Nope.

To give you an idea, even Carl Levin raised serious questions about the details surrounding Galloway and Oil for Food.

All Galloway had was bluff, the Senate documents and witnesses.

Just a reminder, since many seem to forget, the Senate didn't ask him to appear, Galloway staged this drama and they granted him his moment. He's had it, it's over, the investigations continue apace and I'm afraid he's in a spot of trouble.

[Ramius]

I don't agree that he came off all that well, at least not to anybody paying attention. He has the polish of an experienced politician, but beyond the style he offered absolutely nothing of substance.

He simply denied the charges and claimed that the "evidence" was all a plot against him by the global right-wing media.

Ah, yes, that ever-present and all-controlling *right-wing* media. This guy is delusional.

[cicero's_son]

Actually, Galloway was quite hilarious and scored some direct hits on his blinkered Republican inquisitors. They're just Senators, after all, which means that they're used to having witnesses cower and kow-tow before them. When confronted with a feisty little piston like Galloway, they have no idea what to say or do.

Politics aside, it was pretty funny to watch.

[John Lenin]

Galloway is toast. The Iraqi who arranged the deal has testimony against him. Looks like his lawsuit against a Brit Tabloid is a lost cause. Liberals cannot tell the truth if their life depends on it, proving.

Liberalism =Mental Illness

[billbears]

"I met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him," Mr Galloway went on. "The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns, and to give him maps the better to target those guns."

Now George, you can't go telling the truth. After all, you are in Washington..