I have just come from the BBC website where they host some excerpts of George Galloway’s magnificent defence in front of the US senate committee.
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The central document used against George Galloway this week by the US senate committee investigating Iraq’s oil for food programme is a forgery. Socialist Worker can reveal that evidence crucial to the alleged case against the Respect MP is fake — created after the fall of Baghdad in 2003.
There is other clear evidence of forgery surrounding the oil for food documents.
The Mariam Appeal, set up by George Galloway, also apears in some of the documents. It has already been investigated and given a clean financial bill of health.
"God bless America is a prayer, and I believe that George Bush is God’s answer to that prayer."
The alleged evidence against George Galloway, apart from that based on Duelfer’s dodgy dossier, is mainly statements from former Iraqi regime officials.
