by James Glaser
May 18, 2005

British MP George Galloway was called on the carpet by a United States Senate Investigative Committee and he shocked them by showing up and defending himself.

Senator Norm Coleman, Republican Chairman of the committee had accused Galloway of making money off the Iraqi oil-for-food program and Galloway was more than Coleman ever expected.

Galloway, "I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction."

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda."

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001"

"I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning."

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies."

Usually when people come before the United States Senate they are in awe and that is what Coleman was thinking would happen, but George Galloway showed the United States Senate how more and more of the world feels about them.

The world has watched as the pitiful third world country of Iraq keeps jabbing away at the world's most powerful military and those jabs are drawing blood. George Galloway was not afraid to say what he believed tonight the whole world is listening to what he had to say.

It really doesn't matter if this Scotsman from across the ocean is guilty or innocent. What is important is that he has shown the world that a lone person with a belief in himself, can stand up to the United States Senate and call them liars and they really can not say anything back, because Washington has been caught is so many lies leading up to our War with Iraq.

Most of the world knows how George Bush and his people lied and distorted facts in order to get a war going in Iraq. The world knows there were no WMDs, they know about all the innocent Iraqis who have been killed, and they know Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. They look in wonder at reports of American polls that tell us that almost half of all Americans still believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, even after President Bush said it isn't true. They see polls that tell them that the Religious Right in America still believes there are WMDs someplace in Iraq or maybe Saddam hid them in another country. The world watched George Bush get re-elected, even though he lied through his teeth to get us into war.

America is now like the Empire in Star Wars and everyone in the world is starting to think of us like that. George Galloway struck a verbal blow for the resistance and made the Unites States Senate look small. Here we are in a war in Iraq where American Soldiers and Marines are getting killed and wounded every day and the United States Senate is trying to take an insignificant British MP to task for some oil-for-food program that took place over a decade ago.

No one in the Senate is talking about how we got into this war. No one in the Senate is talking about how we tortured women and even children at Abu Garaib Prison. No one in the Senate is even talking about how we are going to get our troops home, but they will talk about how this foreign person or that foreign person did something wrong years ago. They point America's finger, so that no one thinks about what we are doing.

The US Senate looks bad today and they should. America has all sorts of problems they could be working on right here at home, but no, they have to start looking at people living thousands of miles away who they say did wrong, because for sure they don't want to look at people here in Washington.