[MadIvan]

Well well bloody well. Oh Scott Ritter, David Blair is probably going to find out something about YOU next.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Poohbah]

Ruh roh, Shaggy!

[aristeides]

375,000 pounds a year that should have gone to feed Iraqis.

I assume this information would not have been released without the approval of Blair's government.

[cyncooper]

WOW!

I must say I am pleased that these monsters kept scrupulous records.

[Asclepius]

George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad.

I wonder how many Americans were on Saddam's payroll. If so, I wonder when we'll find out.

[Brian Mosely]

This could get quite interesting whenever the American names start popping up. And they will...you can count on it.

[adam_az]

Galloway is a total wingnut and nitwit.

"The suicide bombers are freedom fighters, not terrorists. I salute all of
the fighters and all of the martyrs of Palestine ... Children throwing
stones and becoming suicide bombers are heroes ... we must support the PLO
and assist them in wiping out the Zionist entity."
-George Galloway, University of London's School of Oriental and African
Studies, May 2 2002

[RightWhale]

I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil

Don't know who this might be, but whoever it is has to have spent his life locked away in an unlighted dungeon. Possibly the only person on earth who has not seen a barrel of oil.

[Dan from Michigan]

Britain's own Aldrich Ames. Hopefully he spends the rest of his days in something similar to Leavenworth.

[faithincowboys]

oh my, can you say total bleeping victory? Mr. Galloway will live and die a pariah!

[Krodg]

"The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge, any member of Iraqi intelligence.

A friend of Clinton's?

I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one."

Nope...he deals in hard cold cash....

[dogbyte12]

A hanging in a public square might be nice this spring.

[FreeTheHostages]

Great post. When I read the headline, I was already thinking "you next Ritter."

[Brett66]

So this would officially make him a spy, would it not? Time to throw him in prison for a long time and hopefully paint all of the other peaceniks with a broad enough brush to include them as agents of Saddam.

[TheDon]

Galloways comments have the ring of a guilty man trying to make light of that which he has done.

[cyncooper]

Here we go...records being read, names being named.

Keep it up, reporters.

[aristeides]

Could these payments have been to make up for money Galloway used to get from the Soviet Union?

[AmishDude]

"Maybe it is the product of the same forgers who forged so many other things in this whole Iraq picture. Maybe The Daily Telegraph forged it. Who knows?"

Is it me or does this sound like something the Iraqi information minister would say?

"The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge, any member of Iraqi intelligence. I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one."

He's guilty. This cinches it. Sorry, Mr. MP, we have learned at the University of Slick Willie.

• The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge,
  Planning to forget, are we?
• any member of Iraqi intelligence.
  Oh, please, a bagman doesn't have to be a member of anything.
• I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one.
  Pah-lease! Nobody ever accused you, dufus, of actually having barrels of oil delivered to your house. What contempt he has!

Get the cuffs and lock him up!

[Pokey78]

Delicious! Absolutely delicious!

[MizSterious]

I hope they find files on every rat who's sold us down the river. BTW, if it's not too much trouble, would you add me to your ping list?