George Galloway's testimony before the Senate subcommittee investigating the Iraqi oil-for-food programme is going on at the moment and is, quite simply, mesmerising.
In a chilling display of parliamentary oratory - direct eye contact, no notes, deliberate speech giving full effect to his educated Scots accent - Galloway basically ripped Norm Coleman a new one...
A highlight: "On the very first page of your document about me, you assert that I have had many meetings with Saddam Hussein. This is false.
"I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, once in 1994 and once in August 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as many meetings. In fact I've met him exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him.
"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."
Here's how our news list tonight described the story - "Barnstorming Galloway blasts Coleman's committee over everything from Abu Ghraib to Rumsfeld's meetings with Saddam 'Where's the money, Senator?'"
Gorgeous George might just find himself the new darling of the liberal left.
Today's hearing also coincided with the publication of the Democrats' minority report showing that there were less than adequate safeguards on illegal kickbacks.
In a chilling display of parliamentary oratory - direct eye contact, no notes, deliberate speech giving full effect to his educated Scots accent - Galloway basically ripped Norm Coleman a new one...
A highlight: "On the very first page of your document about me, you assert that I have had many meetings with Saddam Hussein. This is false.
"I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, once in 1994 and once in August 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as many meetings. In fact I've met him exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him.
"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."
Here's how our news list tonight described the story - "Barnstorming Galloway blasts Coleman's committee over everything from Abu Ghraib to Rumsfeld's meetings with Saddam 'Where's the money, Senator?'"
Gorgeous George might just find himself the new darling of the liberal left.
Today's hearing also coincided with the publication of the Democrats' minority report showing that there were less than adequate safeguards on illegal kickbacks.
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