Burning Man

British Parliament-member George Galloway arrived in America yesterday to face allegations from Senate Republicans that he profited during the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.

The good folks at Daily Kos have found the transcript of Galloway's testimony from the Senate floor; here's a sampling (Be careful, this one's a scorcher!):

I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

Galloway went on to add:

Mr. Senator, your comments on Iraq rank among the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point during your rambling, incoherent allegations were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.