The Volcker documents may be damning for the UN and a range of companies who used the time honoured business approach of bribing the local dictator, but not for Galloway.

No one denied he has a Scottish accent- if we are to have dialogue, you must refute the statements I made not some imagined ones of your own. I’ll give you a hint – you would lose any respect for the opinion of someone who described Beckham as speaking like a cornishman or that John Redwood had a register from the planet earth. Carelessness in marshalling an argument saw poor sen. Coleman et al come to grief. He may not be right but Galloway is educated and your side will have to do better than this.

The documents were never used in court,but the Telegraph is appealing,with the damning evidence from the Volcker report it looks like your boy will have to ask his wife nicely for the money in her account.

You mean he picked his scottish accent up in Iraq?

You wonder how The Torygraph managed to lose

Such as? Do tell. Why insinuate? Name names.

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And do you really think that we should let someone get away with taking a public stance against the war while secretly profiting from the status quo?

I think not.

His politics,he was a lickspittle apologist for Saddam Hussein,anti-semite and extreme “never had a proper day job” left winger.

But it isn’t his politics which are indictable,it is his alleged perjury,malfeasance of funds,involvement in a criminal conspiracy, possible support for a terrorist organisation,tax evasion and concealing his financial dealings from Parliament.Oh yes and spivvy dress sense!

Why are you talking of extradition? Galloway would go to the USA on Airforce One to pick up a libel cheque from your guys. Some of you fear this outcome-getting your arses kicked again – but you keep sticking them out of the window, don’t you? That’s why you want the Telegraph/Torygraph to pursue him. They won’t ! -unless the CIA guarantee their losses.

The real shame in all this is that there is a lot wrong with Galloway’s world view but the actions of clowns like Coleman and yourselves as his cheerleaders is your desperation to take him down by discrediting him elsewhere. Just as you did with Clinton’s sex life. Why not be big enough and bold enough to just take him on re his political views. That’s the mature way. Forget about tying his charity work to corruption. Whatever his deficiencies, thanks to a good dose of Scottish sceptical education (we produced Adam Smith and wee Davie Hume, remember!), he is too clever to have taken personal benefit. If you are going to go after people who traded with Saddam and his minions for profit, you could do with selecting targets close to this failing administration.

It is best that he goes down for defrauding the Telegraph out of

I understand what you are saying. I honestly do.

And McCArthy has been dead for years, and I think it is safe to say he was the exception not the rule.

But if this bastard broke the law letting him get away with it for fear he will look all handsome to the loonies is no different than letting a rich man or a well connected man go free.

I like to think that most people are not above the law and that should include the likes of Galloway.

I think that is the reason we let guys like Mugabe rant at the UN about the evil Blair and Bush…nobody wants to give the guy a hard time because they just want him to go away. Meanwhile people suffer and die at his hands.

I did hear Hitchens say some interesting things about this. Needless to say he thinks Galloway is a liar and a thief.

You might care about the US Senate but the rest of the world does not,there will be hundreds of cases where people lied to the Senate,Kennedy ans Kerry are Senators,how much credibility do you think the Senate has?

Enough that most of the rest of the planet wanted Senator Kerry to win the last Presidential election here…

Everyone remembers MacCarthy.

Not well enough, unfortunately. If they did, ‘everyone’ would know that Senator McCarthy was right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VENONA_project

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In 1995, a bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as chairman, was responsible for the release of Venona project materials (although many inside the NSA had also come to believe that the time had come to make it public, and argued internally for such a release).

Moynihan wrote “The Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and deeds.”