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Can you say, "Excoriate"?
May. 17th, 2005 08:41 pmOur lard-ass senators ought to know better than go up against a orator tempered in the blast furnace that is the UK's Parliament. (yes, I know steel isn't tempered in a blast furnace, but I'm just having too much fun with metaphors here to stop).
George Galloway, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, painted himself blue, bellowed "Freedom", and wielded a claymore while under questioning by a Senate committee today. He then proceeded to eat the livers of two US senators. (All this was metaphorical, you understand) He was (falsely, of course) accused of participation in the oil for food scandal. He previously claimed to be ready to give the senators both barrels. I think he more than delivered.
Galloway got a lot of good digs in. Some were perhaps too subtle for most listeners. How about, "I am not, nor have I ever been an oil trader"? Seems like a sly way of calling them a bunch of McCarthyites without ever having to so rude as to actually say it outright. He pointed out that his supposedly many meetings with Saddam (two, in fact) equaled Donald Rumsfeld's meetings with Saddam. He also managed to work in the phrase, "mother of all smokescreens".
Then there's this:
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.
It's all over the BBC. We'll see if this gets any news attention over here. If there were any justice, this would be a "Have you no shame, Senator" moment. But perhaps using the L word to senators may render the speech too harsh for the delicate ears of our media. I bet it will reach the Daily show though.
You can read the complete speech here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/17/164138/145
There's a link to the sound and video on this page (dinna miss the accent):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm#
George Galloway, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, painted himself blue, bellowed "Freedom", and wielded a claymore while under questioning by a Senate committee today. He then proceeded to eat the livers of two US senators. (All this was metaphorical, you understand) He was (falsely, of course) accused of participation in the oil for food scandal. He previously claimed to be ready to give the senators both barrels. I think he more than delivered.
Galloway got a lot of good digs in. Some were perhaps too subtle for most listeners. How about, "I am not, nor have I ever been an oil trader"? Seems like a sly way of calling them a bunch of McCarthyites without ever having to so rude as to actually say it outright. He pointed out that his supposedly many meetings with Saddam (two, in fact) equaled Donald Rumsfeld's meetings with Saddam. He also managed to work in the phrase, "mother of all smokescreens".
Then there's this:
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.
It's all over the BBC. We'll see if this gets any news attention over here. If there were any justice, this would be a "Have you no shame, Senator" moment. But perhaps using the L word to senators may render the speech too harsh for the delicate ears of our media. I bet it will reach the Daily show though.
You can read the complete speech here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/17/164138/145
There's a link to the sound and video on this page (dinna miss the accent):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm#
