The New Road

Galloway rocks

This Galloway guy is great. Straight talk from a politician. Love it.

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.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.

Yes! Go, go, go!

Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.

This is 8.8 billion is the least reported scandal in history. It should have brought this administration down. But because the entire media is controlled by the right wing we never hear about it.

Now I know that standards have slipped in the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.

This Oil For Food nonsense is ridiculous. It's the worst run conspiracy since the White Water investigations. And there appears to be little more to it than that. It's so depressing to see the media concentrating on this stupidity when we should be starting impeachment procedings the President for his lies that got us into Iraq. Where is the coverage of the massive Republican conspiracies that have our country in shambles, our kids dodging bullets and our people at each other's throats.

Oh, and, of course, the freaks over at Freepers are all about the violence; "Heard him on the radio this morning. He is an obnoxious twit who badly needs to have his face readjusted." and "He should be barred for the US for his views, not invited to call the American people names on our land." The response was basically that times fifty. Morons.