Galloway Returns Home

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George Galloway will arrive home confident he won the showdown with US senators who accused him of profiting from Iraq's oil-for-food scandal.
The Respect MP said he was "absolutely" convinced he had been vindicated from the allegations. He was accused of receiving vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein's regime.

"These people think they can smear people without them having the right to speak back and this time I got that right and I knocked them for six," he said.
Mr Galloway's appearance before the US Senate committee on investigations was largely lauded by pundits in the US, who deemed his impassioned defence a success.

The former Labour MP, as promised, used the platform to denounce who he claimed were "the villains of the piece" in Iraq - the US government.
He clearly stated that at no point had he ever seen, bought or sold a barrel of oil and neither had anyone on his behalf.
"They didn't have a leg to stand on," he said.
"All they had was my name on a bit of paper and that just isn't good enough."
The MP, re-elected this month in Bethnal Green and Bow, said he felt his work was done with Republican committee chairman Norm Coleman and his colleagues.
He said he would be back in the House of Commons immediately to carry on the work he had been elected to do.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13350688,00.html

[PartyPooper]

1. As many other DU'ers have said, "I want to have his baby!"

But, I'm already hitched to a half Scot. ;-)

[moobu2]

2. Come back soon George, aww I miss the guy already n/t

[DrZeeLit]

3. I wanna be president of his Fan Club! My new hero! n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

4. Wondering what he really meant to say

"These people think they can smear people without them having the right to speak back and this time I got that right and I knocked them for six," he said.

Translation: I kicked some ass over there, no need to take names.

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6. Making reference to a 1955 heavyweight boxing

A triumphant George Galloway will arrive back in the UK today confident he won the showdown with US senators who have accused him of profiting from Iraq’s oil-for-food scandal.The Respect MP said he was “absolutely” convinced he had been vindicated from allegations that he received vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein’s regime.

“These people think they can smear people without them having the right to speak back and this time I got that right and I knocked them for six,” he said. Making reference to a 1955 heavyweight boxing match in which the British champion lost to the US, he added: “It was Rocky Marciano versus Don Cockell, but this time the British guy won.”

Mr Galloway’s appearance before the US Senate committee on investigations was largely lauded by pundits in the US, who deemed his impassioned defence a success. The former Labour MP, as promised, used the platform to denounce who he claimed were “the villains of the piece” in Iraq – the US government. He clearly stated that at no point had he ever seen, bought or sold a barrel of oil and neither had anyone on his behalf.“They didn’t have a leg to stand on,” he said.“All they had was my name on a bit of paper and that just isn’t good enough.”

The MP, re-elected this month in Bethnal Green and Bow, said he felt his work was done with Republican committee chairman Norm Coleman and his colleagues.He said he would be back in the House of Commons immediately to carry on the work he had been elected to do.
“These people conducted their so-called investigation beneath a cloak of parliamentary privilege,” he added. “I can take this no further.”
Mr Galloway described the committee’s damning report as a “schoolboy dossier, full of holes and falsehoods”.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4569886

[Bhaisahab]

19. knocked them for six

is a way of saying he kicked their butts. its derived from cricket, where a batsman gets six runs if he can hit the ball out of the ground.

[GregW]

23. Well ... over the boundary line anyway ...

Equivalent to a home run for the 'Merkins

[drduffy]

5. H*ll,

I was gonna say I'd switch to gay. I love the guy. But suffice it to say, today was the best time I've had in a very long time.

[Carla in Ca]

7. You know what this means?

Congress will begin tomorrow's session by formally changing the name of yet another beloved food. Remember freedom fries? I assume the first order of business will be to rename, yes, the English muffin

Contest time!!!!

________ MUFFIN


Let me put my meanness cap on and try one. Um, hard thinking like a conservative meanie, isn't it? I got it! The American Muffin.
Sorry, can't think mean...you try.

[gavodotcom]

9. Y'mean like the Dept. of Homeland Security's "American Sheperd?"

Who was the official 'mascot' of plastic sheeting and duct tape? This was announced in August of last year as a way of recruiting brownshirts.

The idea was so freakin' stupid they never did get around to doing anything to educate kids:

http://www.ready.gov/ (Notice "Ready: Kids")

[Carla in Ca]

10. Exactly!

When WILL those idiots wake up and realize what they are doing...how silly they really are?:shrug:

[bemildred]

11. Yikes, what will we speak now? "Freedomish"? "Patriotish"?

[Carla in Ca]

12. Hey, you may have indeed won the prize

I wouldn't put it past 'them' to change our language from English to American...place your bets.

[bemildred]

14. Long overdue in their minds, no doubt.

I'm racking my brains to think what else they could change it to.
"Imperial newspeak"?

[Athame]

15. STUD MUFFIN! n/t

:silly: couldn't resist.

[Nihil]

16. Hope not or they'll piss off even more people ...

... Mr. Galloway is SCOTTISH not ENGLISH!

I know the difference is lost on many Americans but if there's one
thing that riles the Scottish & Welsh people of Britain it's when
they are called "English" ...

Now, who's betting on "Scotch eggs" becoming "Freedom eggs"?

:-)

[tjwmason]

21. As an EngLishman it riLes me too

I Love the Scots and the WeLsh, but they're damn weLL not EngLish - most can't pLay cricket to save their Lives.

[Maeve]

22. Freedom whisky? Nah...

Liberty libations!

[pacifictiger]

17. First rule ...

Don't ever call a Scotsman, English.
If the fundies make that mistake, Gorgeous George may return with both barrels blazing.

[Carla in Ca]

24. Sorry, I was just making reference

to him as a member of Parliament....forgive me?

[pacifictiger]

25. No problem here,

but most people don't realize how touchy the Scots are on the subject of the English - very independent and fiesty natured are the scots! LOL

[anarchy1999]

18. Okay, I'll take a walk, Can we call it the "GOD" muffin?

That is so wrong it was hard to type. Please forgive, I could think of nothing more appropriate.

[tjwmason]

20. SmaLL point - which wiLL certainLy by-pass the pubbies

GaLLoway is not EngLish - not by a very Long way. He's a Scot.

You do reaLise that the whoLe worLd is stiLL Laughing about freedom fries? It rather summarises the LeveL to which the current administration can rise.

My suggestion - just caLL them muffins, that what we do. CaLL those nasty mini-cake things American muffins (as we do). But that's not reaLLy getting into the pubby mindset, it has to be crassLy ironic (without the wing-nuts reaLising it).

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Yet that stupid bobo coleman rattled on

about how Galloway was guilty of something on "Hardball." It wouldn't matter what you said or did to that motherfucker short of punching him in the nose, he wouldn't stray from the script typed up by rove.

[CC]

13. I hope he comes back soon

to make the rounds on our media. He was great and would love to hear him again. I sure miss the days when Americans could speak the truth and not be harassed,smeared, arrested or detained. It took a Scot to do what we should of been doing all along. (We as in American news, media, politician etc. I know some of us are speaking out.)