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thwap
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posted 17 May 2005 01:23 PM      Profile for thwap        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This BBC story details UK MP George Galloway's complete rejection of the charges that he benifited from clandestine oil contracts in return for supposed favours to the Saddam Hussein regime. Furthermore:

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Mr Galloway went on the offensive as soon as he began to speak, saying he had met Saddam Hussein on two occasions - the same number of times as US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war," he said.

The accusations levelled against him was the "mother of all smokescreens", he said.

The biggest sanctions busters were American companies "with the connivance" of the US government.


I'm a little miffed with what the BBC chose to use to end the report [repeating the charges of the pro-war morons]:

quote:
The report claims both [...some other dude ....] and Mr Galloway were given potentially lucrative oil allocations as a reward for their support in calling for sanctions against the regime to be loosened.


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