Saint George And The Food And Oil Scandal

Let's talk about George Galloway. The british MP who likes to portray a modern day version of Howard Hughes VS the US Senate (Hughes fought a battle against the senate that, at least in the movie adaptation of Hughes life seems somewhat similiar to Galloway's intense sparring with the US senate back in May).

Lots of us are waiting for the verdict on the indictments in the Plame case. I'm relatively certain from casual reading that indictments are on their way for Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby tomorrow.

So. What if George Galloway is guilty? Did he benefit from iraqi oil sales? (By the way, The US senate was none too happy with Galloway's performance in May when he publically humiliated them, and no surprise here: They're not above retaliation.)

According to the latest, the inquiry has discovered additional oil payments of Iraqi oil money in his 'estranged' spouse's bank account.

Yesterday Mr Galloway angrily rejected Mr Volcker's charges that he personally had benefited from Iraqi oil sales and said that he had never heard of Delta Services, which allegedly made payments to his wife. “This is all a tissue of lies and a lie doesn't become a truth through repetition,” he said.

But Senator Norm Coleman, Republican chairman of the Senate committee, noted that the Volcker report “completely supports” the findings of the Senate investigation.

“The [UN] Independent Inquiry Committee relied on parallel information and documents and arrived at the same conclusions we did: Galloway solicited financial assistance from the Hussein regime, his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in connection with oil-for-food deals, and his political arm also received hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Senator Coleman said.

As much as I admire George Galloway's celebrated wit, he needs to be held equally accountable by the very happy (of late) Left, who've often used Mr. Galloway as a sort of spectacle in progress. The Left doesn't need its own criminals, not when there are more than enough criminals on the Right.

If you remember the recent love-spat between ex talk show God Phil Donahue and Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor: The one really good line was from Donahue.

"Loud doesn't make right."

Unfortunately for Saint George, eloquence doesn't make right either.

UN team links more oil cash to Galloway wife's bank account (Times Online)