George Galloway to Rebut Oil-for-Food Allegations

[2pac Shakur]

“It’s a rather reverse process in that a person slandered all over the world by a committee that has never spoken to me, written to me or asked me a single question, has now invited me to speak,” he said.

“To be damned in this way by people calling themselves an investigative committee but who never asked me a single question, that is justice American style.”

The senate committee also alleged that former French interior minister Charles Pasqua received allocations for 11 million barrels in oil.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4547959

How much money did Halliburton make off the Iraqi invasion? And how much did Halliburton pay Cheney last year?
I hope this is on CSPAN.

[2pac Shakur]

The MP said later: “Yes, I will be there, but I am not happy with the process. Who would be? Even in Kafka there was a trial of sorts.”

Oh man that's good.
He's probably too smart for our Congress. Those dummies.


What's a Kafka?

[Pseudolus]

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[2pac Shakur]

According to Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure report, the vice president's Halliburton benefits include three batches of stock options comprising 433,333 shares. He also has a 401(k) retirement account valued at between $1,001 and $15,000 dollars.

His deferred compensation account was valued at between $500,000 and $1 million, and generated income of $50,000 to $100,000.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in575356.shtml

It's because he's such a good businessman.
Buying Bush's Dresser industries, changing accounting methodolgy, invading Iraq.

Oops, scratch that last item. That's unrelated to his pay.
Only foreigners cheat.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

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I said Kafka not Ka Ka.

[2pac Shakur]

Halliburton - Stock Options for 100,000 shares at $54.5000 (vested) expire 12-03-07 2004 $0 $1,000
Halliburton - Stock Options for 33,333 shares at $28.1250 (vested) expire 12-02-08 2004 $0 $1,000
Halliburton - Stock Options for 300,000 shares at $39.5000 (vested) expire 12-02-09 2004 $0 $1,000

http://www.public-i.org/bop2004/cand...=2&act=details

[2pac Shakur]

WASHINGTON - British lawmaker George Galloway vehemently rejected a U.S. Senate subcommittee's claim that Saddam Hussein ever awarded him lucrative allocations under the U.N. oil-for-food program and accused its chairman of maligning his good name.

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"Senior Hussein regime officials informed the subcommittee that the allocation holders — in this case, Galloway — were ultimately responsible for the surcharge payment and therefore would have known of the illegal, under-the-table payment," he said.

Galloway rejected that and accused Coleman of never having contacted him about the charges. He also defended his opposition to the U.N. sanctions and the U.S.-led Iraq war.

"I gave my heart and soul to stop you from committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq," Galloway said. "And I told the world that the case for war was a pack of lies."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050517/...oil_for_food_5

[2pac Shakur]

Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought

Halliburton's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said
Affiliates Had $73 Million in Contracts
By Colum Lynch
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, June 23, 2001; Page A01

UNITED NATIONS -- During last year's presidential campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.

"Iraq's different," he said.

According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/02.03E.Hallib.Iraq.htm

[2pac Shakur]

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong," he pointedly told Coleman, whom he labeled a "neo-con, pro-war hawk."

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Galloway accused Coleman of sullying his reputation and making false charges against him that he gave money to Saddam. "You call that justice?" he asked, adding later: "This is utterly preposterous."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050517/325/fj0fw.html

Here's a link to part of his speech...


http://www.democraticunderground.com...ss=104x3672646

[2pac Shakur]

"Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer to that is nobody and if you had anybody who paid me a penny you would have produced them here today."

"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns."

"You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever and you call that justice."

"Senator [Norm Coleman, committee chairman], this is the mother of all smoke screens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth."

"You have nothing on me Senator [Coleman], except my name on lists of names in Iraq, many of which were drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq."

"I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf."

"I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."

"One of the most serious mistakes you have made in this set of documents is such a schoolboy howler it makes a fool of the efforts you have made."

"Senator [Coleman], in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4557279.stm

Galloway for Prez!