Coleman says Brit lawmaker, Galloway gave false testimony to congress

[dajoki]

link
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap10-24-141958.asp?t=apnew&vts=102420051953

Senator says British lawmaker gave false testimony, will refer evidence for investigation

By FOSTER KLUG
ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — An anti-war British lawmaker gave false testimony to Congress when he denied receiving U.N. oil-for-food allocations from deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a Senate investigative panel said Monday.

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., chairman of the subcommittee, and his investigators presented evidence that they say shows British lawmaker George Galloway's political organization and his wife received nearly $600,000 from the oil allocations.

Congressional investigators said Galloway could face charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding, with each charge carrying a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

A spokesman for Galloway, Ron McKay, said in an interview from London that the lawmaker denies the accusations and if charged with perjury is willing to appear in an American court.''Put up or shut up,'' McKay said of Galloway's accusers, calling the report derogatory and defamatory.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Coleman has an axe to grind here. Coleman better watch out

or he will find his ass out on the street because of his close ties to bush's stupid policies.

[dajoki]

2. galloway ripped coleman...

a new one when he testified.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. That's right. He did a horrible job on that one, even that sot Hitchens

was able to mount some kind of an instant rebuke. Not that idiot Coleman! Colman comes back with this six months later. Talk about a "girly man"!

[dajoki]

6. girly man. i love it!!

[GrpCaptMandrake]

3. How typical of a Repiglican

to attack an absent opponent. Norm Coleman is a weak-kneed little nancy-Repig.

[reality based]

5. Did this get publicized in Britain?

Coleman won't have immunity from defamation lawsuits there.

[Kagemusha]

10. I just read about it from a brit media web site.

Consider that a yes.

[wtmusic]

7. Smirking Norm has more than met his match

Shame on Galloway for trying to raise money for suffering Iraqi kids. :eyes:

[dajoki]

8. i love the response...

"put up or shut up"

[Kagemusha]

9. Oh, perjury matters NOW?

Isn't that cute.

[wtmusic]

11. Ding!

The Repub hypocrisy bell sounds again...bottoms up everyone! :toast:

[Sallow]

22. Lying to Congress is a crime?

How about Bush and his yellowcake uranium assertion?

[dajoki]

21. only when it's convenient...

for the thugs.

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102300926.html
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), appearing on the same program, said people should wait, but if there were an indictment, she hoped it would be for "a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime."

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[reprehensor]

13. Probably forgeries.

Again.

Coleman is such a sucker.

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[dajoki]

20. no proof?

figures.

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[dajoki]

29. well, then explain yourself...

what's the circumstantial evidence? where did you here it? c'mon show me the evidence. if you can't you shouldn't even open your mouth about the subject. just because you write something we are all supposed to believe it? i don't want another bunch of bullshit, i want FACTS. put up or shut up.

[Bridget Burke]

23. Alas, this Texan is not familiar with "Tory country-set individuals"

Perhaps you could explain in terms we yokels might understand.

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[Bridget Burke]

32. Well, I knew that much....

All those years of Masterpiece Theatre have not been in vain.

POSH: Port Out, Starboard Home (Alas, that etymology is now suspect!)

[unhappycamper]

15. Refresh your memory of Galloway's comments. (video )

The video is about halfway down this page:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/05/17.html#a2978

[norml]

16. Guardian: Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

Staff and agencies
Tuesday October 25, 2005



George Galloway addresses the US senate subcommittee for homeland security and governmental affairs in Washington. Photograph: Dennis Cook/AP



A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
The US Senate inquiry into the Bethnal Green and Bow MP's alleged involvement in the saga claims to have discovered $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money in his estranged wife's bank account.

Its chairman, the Republican senator Norm Coleman, says this means Mr Galloway lied under oath when giving evidence to the senate permanent sub-committee on investigations on May 17, when he offered a passionate defence against similar claims.

Today Mr Galloway repeated denials that he had ever received any oil cash, and told Mr Coleman to "put up or shut up" by either bringing a prosecution or dropping the allegations. The Respect MP accused Mr Coleman of orchestrating a "sneak revenge attack" motivated by a desire to avenge his "humiliation" at the hearing in May.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1600268,00.html

[dajoki]

18. coleman was humiliated...

and it took him six months to come up with this attack.

[chaska]

26. I suggest a face to face meeting between the two....

Galloway would rip him a new one ... literally.

[dajoki]

30. we think alike...

check post # 2

[Jacobin]

27. Poor Normie. Gonna have to get his head glued back on..again

:woohoo:

[Dinger]

28. I Don't Think coleman Wants To Fuck With Galloway (nt)

[CJCRANE]

31. Just a distraction

to take some of the attention away from Plamegate.

They had the exact same evidence last time. Watch this story fizzle out, just like it did when Galloway stole the limelight last time.

[dajoki]

39. maybe not n/t

[suegeo]

33. Norm Coleman, Tuna Sandwich EOM

[0007]

34. Norm Coleman is weak and not so smart.

His words and charges cannot stand before George Galloway. Coleman is as insipid as FAUX News, and both are a big embarrassment to this country.

[dajoki]

35. he could be...

santorum's brother.

[0007]

37. ....he ain't that smart, maybe second cousin!

[dajoki]

38. ricky ain't so bright either...

finished last in his law school class.

[peacetalksforall]

36. How can Coleman get Galloway, a Britisher, prosecuted using U.S.

penalties? I say 'bring it on, Normie'. Let's get this accusation in the courts in Britain or here so you shut up. You are just being used by losers. Let's see what you and the losers have got.