Last Straw

British MP George Galloway was set to fiercely reject charges he profited from the Iraq oil-for-food program at a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, apparently aimed at exposing corruption in the U.N. scheme. This is what he had to say:

“I have no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon (President) George Bush who is pro-war,” Galloway told Reuters after arriving in Washington for the hearing.

“I come not as the accused but as the accuser,” he added.

Oppose him or support him, you gotta admit he’s one of those rare politicians who tells it how it is.

According to Sue Plemming of Reuters:

Far from showing the usual deference of witnesses before Congress, the Scotsman defiantly told a Senate committee its evidence against him was false, condemned its investigation and demanded to know why it had not checked with him first before making its allegations.

But don’t listen to Sue, you can watch his testimony for yourself. The full testimony is worth watching every minute.