{"id":3288,"date":"2005-05-18T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/those-who-know-him-best\/"},"modified":"2005-05-18T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:54:21","slug":"those-who-know-him-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/those-who-know-him-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Those who know him best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tGeorge Galloway’s performance art didn’t impress his local paper. The Scotsman has seen it all before:<\/a><\/p>\n

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GEORGE Galloway yesterday failed in his attempt to convince a sceptical US Senate investigative committee that he had not profited from oil dealings with Iraq under the UN\u2019s controversial oil-for-food programme.<\/p>\n

Despite a typically barnstorming performance full of bluster and rhetorical flourishes, the former Glasgow Kelvin MP was pinned down by persistent questioning over his business relationship with Fawaz Zureikat, the chairman of the Mariam Appeal – set up to assist a four-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia.<\/p>\n

And it was a Democrat senator, Carl Levin, rather than the Republican committee chairman, Norm Coleman, who gave him the hardest time as Mr Galloway sought to turn the tables on his inquisitors, leaving him no closer to clearing his name than when he took his seat in front of the sub-committee of the Senate\u2019s homeland security and government affairs committee in Washington.<\/p>\n

Time and again, Mr Levin questioned him, requesting wearily that he deliver a straight answer to a straight question. But Mr Galloway could, or would not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The criminal from Glasgow took to screaming and throwing fits about the liberation of Iraq under questioning about the profits he made from Oil-For-Food. This is old tricks for Galloway, who was expelled from the Labour Party for urging British soldiers in Iraq to mutiny.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing that this fool (recently elected to parliament on a racist campaign) isn’t in prison.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Galloway’s performance art didn’t impress his local paper. The Scotsman has seen it all before: GEORGE Galloway yesterday failed in his attempt to convince a sceptical US Senate investigative committee that he had not profited from oil dealings with Iraq under the UN\u2019s controversial oil-for-food programme. Despite a typically barnstorming performance full of bluster … Continue reading “Those who know him best”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-R2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}