galloway

hevusa · 05-20-2005, 03:32 AM

wow!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...toryid=4556887

sgtdmski · 05-22-2005, 05:04 AM

Galloway used his appearance before the Senate hearings to take shots at the United States, President Bush, and the Iraqi War, which he did not support. As bipartisan members of the committee have said, what he testified and what the documents in the case show are two different things. Like many I am still waiting to see the documents, and be interested in seeing if they really do prove the case against Galloway. If they do, then all his testimony really was, was an attempt to shift the limelight off of himself.

dmk

hevusa · 05-23-2005, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgtdmski

Galloway used his appearance before the Senate hearings to take shots at the United States, President Bush, and the Iraqi War, which he did not support. As bipartisan members of the committee have said, what he testified and what the documents in the case show are two different things. Like many I am still waiting to see the documents, and be interested in seeing if they really do prove the case against Galloway. If they do, then all his testimony really was, was an attempt to shift the limelight off of himself.

dmk

From that video I highly doubt they have jack shit on him.
That is how most of the world feels in regards to America right now it seems. I happen to agree with him.

limey42 · 06-14-2005, 08:48 PM

id just like to say that ive met george galloway. he was out argued by my 6th form (16-18 yr olds) over the war in iraq. he went off swearing at us and lost his temper.

And yet he made two US senetors look like fools. whats going on here then?

aMFliberal · 06-15-2005, 06:23 PM

That's funny.

Mad Cow · 06-20-2005, 05:46 PM

Galloway is a slimey commie asshole. I wish he would get a good kicking.

limey42 · 06-24-2005, 07:29 AM

i agree with the sentiment but i wish that youd give some reasons behind it.
my reason for hateing him is that like many in the NI forum he presumes to no what people want. thats why he lost the debate in my school so badly. not only are there many economists in my school who repeatedly pointed out the floors in those argument but there are two Iraqi refugees who repeatedly told him he was speaking out of his arse.

Yet for some reason he never listned

Jimbob1989 · 01-21-2006, 04:57 AM

Sorry to bring up an old topic, but I came accross this topic and I've met George Galloway, so I'd like to give some input if thats ok.

A few months ago, around Christmas we attended a conference for Students in our year, so basically a huge hall full of 16-18 year olds and George Galloway was one of the speakers. Before that conference, I didn't like him, from what I had heard, he was a con man, not a politician. When he had finished talking, I thought even worse of him

He played the crowd very well, got a lot of cheers and applauds, but I couldnt help but laugh. The oil investigation is not the first time George Galloway has been occused of corruption

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In 1998 Galloway founded the Mariam Appeal, intended "to campaign against sanctions on Iraq which are having disastrous effects on the ordinary people of Iraq". The campaign was named after Mariam Hamza, a single child flown by the fund from Iraq to Britain to receive treatment for leukaemia. The intention was to raise awareness of the suffering and death of tens of thousands of other Iraqi children due to lack of suitable medicines and facilities, and to campaign for the lifting of the western sanctions that Galloway maintained were responsible for that situation. The campaign won Galloway press coverage, first positive then increasingly negative, as allegations arose that funds were misappropriated and used to pay his wife and driver.

The fund was at the centre of a further scrutiny during the 2003 Gulf war, with allegations of lavish spending on Galloway's regular trips to the Middle East, including first class travel, luxury hotel accommodation, and consumption of expensive champagne and caviar. Galloway, however, denied that he had misused any funds raised for the Mariam Appeal and pointed out that it was not unreasonable for money from a campaign fund to be used to pay for the travel expenses of campaigners. Although the Mariam Appeal was never a registered charity and never intended to be such, it was investigated by the Charity Commission. The report of this year-long inquiry, published in June 2004[48], found that the Mariam Appeal was doing charitable work (and so should properly have been registered with them), but did not substantiate allegations that any funds had been misused:

The commission's thorough inquiry found no evidence to suggest that the large amounts of money given to the Mariam Appeal were not properly used. [49]

At the same time the original Charity Commission report noted:

12. The Commission has been unable to obtain all the books and records of the Appeal. Mr Galloway, the first Chairman of the Appeal, has stated that this documentation was sent to Amman and Baghdad in 2001 when Fawaz Zuriekat became Chairman of the Appeal. Mr Galloway has informed the Commission that this documentation is no longer under the control of the original trustees of the Appeal and cannot be located by them. Mr Galloway confirmed that the Appeal did not produce annual profit and loss accounts or balance sheets.

During Galloway's testimony before a United States Senate committee on May 17, 2005 regarding allegations of illegally allocated oil vouchers, Galloway relied upon the Charity Commission's findings as going "one better" than an investigation into specific improprieties. Soon after the hearing the Charity Commission released a statement[50] (also here[51]):

While we were able to review income and expenditure from the bank statements of the Appeal, which we had to obtain using our legal powers direct from banks, we were not able to verify all aspects of expenditure because of the lack of proper documentation. However, we found no evidence that the funds of the Appeal were misapplied (other than the payment of some unauthorised benefits to trustees which were made in good faith).

It also rebuts Galloway's assertion that the report necessarily precludes any possibility of illicit oil dealings:

Our inquiry did not find evidence of donations direct from oil companies but noted that one of the major funders of the Appeal was Fawaz Zureikat, an individual named on 12 May 2005 by the US Senate Sub-Committee as allegedly connected with payments in relation to allocations of oil under the Iraq Oil for Food Programme. We have no evidence to show that the income received by the Fund from Mr Zureikat came from an improper source. But had the recent allegations been known to us at the time of our inquiry, we would have made the information available to the appropriate UK authorities for them to decide whether the Mariam Appeal had received funds from an illegal source.

Source

George Galloway in my opinion is a liar and a cheat who gets the crowd to support him through bashing other politicians

I'm just waiting till the day he dies to pop open the champaign

Mad Cow · 01-21-2006, 07:35 AM

How I agree with that, I detest that --nt so much, I'm sure if I bump into him I'll just head-butt the bastard.

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