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Galloway Senate testimony PDF goes AWOL
Evidence 'missing' from Committee website

Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 20 May 2005
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The website for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has removed testimony from UK MP George Galloway from its website.

All other witness testimonies for the hearings on the Oil for Food scandal are available on the Committee's website in PDF form. But Galloway's testimony is the only document not on the site.

"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him," Galloway told the Committee.

"The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns."

Press representatives for the Committee had no comment.



Wonder Boy, you imply that the riots in Afghanistan were caused by the Newsweek article. Ironic that General Myers said just the opposite.

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The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Air Force General Richard Myers told reporters at the Pentagon May 12 that he has been told that the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, rioting was related more to the ongoing political reconciliation process in Afghanistan than anything else.

Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says





then you try to indict Galloway because he met with Sadaam:



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Mr Galloway said he had met Saddam Hussein on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war," he said.



As for the Electricity.....

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But the pell-mell effort to spend that June may help explain many of the problems in the reconstruction of Iraq, and it continues to haunt the U.S. nearly a year later.

U.S. officials are unsure whether billions of dollars dispatched to Iraqi ministries for reconstruction projects ever reached their intended destinations. Schools and hospitals refurbished under hastily issued contracts have again fallen into disrepair. The oil and power industries are in worse shape than during the regime of Saddam Hussein.

"The Iraqis will be paying for the screw-ups of the CPA for a long time,"

Rules and Cash Flew Out the Window among others





From todays financial Times

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The privately-owned company started selling power to Iraq in 2003 to help relieve severe post-war power shortages. Ankara’s special envoy on Iraq, Osman Koroturk, said in a television interview earlier this week that easing the power shortages could help improve the security situation in Turkey’s neighbour.

Turkey to triple electricity exports to Iraq


and an older article from last year which is relevant since just before it was published,m the same denials were being told by the Bush Administration






But of course you choose to reference the same Government sites that edits out Congressional testimony that it finds unpleasant. Not surprising. Both you and G-Man repeatedly try to paint the rosiest of scenarios in Iraq, much like some lying recruiter you hear about, trying to lure people to their war. Incredible that following this thread alone, both you and G-Man have been painting these sunny scenarions for YEARS already!

YEARS!

and yet the death count and mayhem marches ever onward.

Bastards.


"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." - George W. Bush State of the Union speech Jan 28, 2003 "mission accomplished" - George W. Bush May 2, 2003 It does not require a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in peoples minds". Samuel Adams said that. Pretty deep for a guy that makes beer for a living - The Boondocks "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead" - Leo C. Rosten