We can only wait for the U.S. box to be disclosed. Hopefully the wannabe child molester will get what is rightfully coming to him.
If Scott Ritter's name comes up with documentation, I volunteer to be on the possee to bring him back dead or alive.
There has been a real deafening silence from the Rats in congress who supported Soddomite since this has started to come out.
How 'bout a gentleman to gentlelady cyberwager? I see where you're going with this and I agree, so no bet. :) Bet Scott Ritter will be in deep doo-doo soon enough.
I would bet that Bubba Klinton was on the payroll, too.
Ritter has too much crow in his craw to be able to speak at the moment.
Ritter is writing in The Guardian (posted elsewhere), basically casting doubt on these reports about al-Galloway.
Sadly, Scott has not gone away, he is spinning and sweating:
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg02183.html Galloway's a crook - how convenient
These dramatic revelations come just when Britain needs an outspoken voice of dissent more than ever
Scott Ritter
Friday April 25, 2003
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,943205,00.html I was shocked to read about the allegations, ostensibly based upon documents discovered in Iraq,
that George Galloway was somehow compensated financially by the Iraqi government for championing
its cause. I was shocked because, if these allegations prove to be true, then the integrity and
credibility of a man for whom I have great respect would be dramatically undermined.
But I was also shocked because of the timing of these allegations. Having been on the receiving end
of smear campaigns designed to assassinate the character of someone in opposition to the powers
that be, I have grown highly suspicious of dramatic revelations conveniently timed to silence a
vocal voice of dissent.
The charges made against Galloway are serious and they should be thoroughly investigated. Do these
charges have any merit? I will continue to operate under the assumption of innocence until proven
guilty. I hope the charges against George Galloway are baseless but, to be honest, I simply don't
know.
But I do know a few things about George Galloway and the cause he championed with regards to Iraq.
I know that he helped found the Mariam Appeal, a humanitarian organisation established in 1998
initially to raise funds on behalf of an Iraqi girl who suffered from leukaemia and who, because of
economic sanctions, was unable to receive adequate medical care. I met Mariam in 1999, when she was
a guest of the Bruderhof Society here in the US, a religious movement that eschews individual
wealth and promotes a simple, communal life. She was getting treatment for the onset of blindness
caused by medical neglect related to her leukaemia treatment.
Mariam is a real person, not some political stunt. Her suffering was genuine. So, too, was the joy
of her maternal grandmother, who accompanied Mariam to the US when she realised that while Mariam
might be blind, she was going to live, thanks in no small part to the work of people like George
Galloway, whose dramatic intervention got Mariam out of Iraq and into the hands of those who could
care for her.
I know that Galloway helped set up the British-Iraqi friendship association. I know because he
invited me to come to London and speak at the association's inaugural meeting. The message I heard
him deliver that night was one of human kindness and compassion. He spoke out against the suffering
of the Iraqi people under the effects of a decades-long economic embargo. I heard him decry the
dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But I also heard him lambast the policies of his own country, and
those of the US, which were subjecting the innocent people of Iraq to such suffering.
Establishing the friendship association was a politically incorrect thing to do at the time.
Galloway's political opponents could, and did, make political hay from such actions, deriding them
as "pro-Saddam". In the months to come, I'm sure many British people will flock to organisations
espousing friendship between Britain and Iraq, now that it is the trendy thing to do. Galloway was
a friend of the Iraqi people back when they most needed the friendship and understanding of the
British people.
I know that Galloway was a leading, and highly vocal, critic of the war with Iraq. He challenged
Tony Blair's policies and statements about the justification for the war, namely the allegations
made by Britain and the US concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programmes and its failure
to comply with its security council-mandated obligations to disarm. I know because I share
Galloway's views about the unsustained nature of the British-American case against Iraq.
He spoke out vociferously against Blair's policies on Iraq, demanding evidence concerning Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction more substantial than the plagiarised dossier and forged documents
produced by Whitehall. The case for war, as flimsy as it was in the months before Operation Iraqi
Freedom began, has been shown to date to be utterly without merit, as no stockpiles of hidden
weapons of mass destruction have been uncovered by the US and British military forces occupying
Iraq.
If it turns out that there are no weapons of mass destruction or programmes related to their
production and concealment in Iraq, Blair and his government must be held accountable by the
British people for actions carried out in their name. If British policy was sustained on the back
of a lie, then those who perpetrated that lie must be called upon to explain themselves. Now, more
than ever, the British people need a voice of opposition, because it is from the ranks of the
opposition that the matter of policing bad policy will be raised.
To allow George Galloway to be silenced now, when his criticisms of British policy over Iraq have
been shown to be fundamentally sound, would be a travesty of democracy. Rather than casting him
aside, the British people should reconsider his statements in the light of the emerging reality
that it is Blair and not Galloway who has been saying things worthy of investigation.
· Scott Ritter was formerly chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq
WSRitter@aol.com Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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