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 George Bush who is pro-war. I come not as the accused but as the accuser.

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.