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18:24 - Well, that sure explains a lot
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/ngall22.xml&sSheet=/
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Via LGF; this one's a real barn-burner.
George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least 375,000 British pounds a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad.
A confidential memorandum sent to Saddam by his spy chief said that Mr Galloway asked an agent of the Mukhabarat secret service for a greater cut of Iraq's exports under the oil for food programme.
He also said that Mr Galloway was profiting from food contracts and sought "exceptional" business deals. Mr Galloway has always denied receiving any financial assistance from Baghdad.
Asked to explain the document, he said yesterday: "Maybe it is the product of the same forgers who forged so many other things in this whole Iraq picture. Maybe The Daily Telegraph forged it. Who knows?"
Siphoning money off the oil-for-food program and then railing bitterly against the sanctions that were killing Iraqi babies; accepting blood pay and then doing everything a back-bench MP can do to derail the war effort and keep Saddam in power. It just doesn't get much more despicable than this.
If this war accomplishes nothing more than smoking out all those Western politicians who are in the back pockets of the worst dictatorial regimes the modern world has to offer, it'll have been a resounding success on that strength alone.
Begone, Gríma Wormtongue!
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