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There's nothing like a good comeuppance
National Review, Nov 21, 2005
There's nothing like a good comeuppance. Over the past few years, British MP George Galloway has been one of the loudest and dumbest critics of the war in Iraq. He has also been a staunch apologist for some of the worst elements the Middle East has to offer. Before the liberation of Iraq, Galloway lavished frequent praise on the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Post-liberation, he has become an avid supporter of the terrorist insurgency. Anyone who has ever seen him perform in public knows that his depravity is surpassed only by his pomposity, making it particularly gratifying that two independent reports have just implicated him in the Iraqi Oil for Food scandal. In the last week of October, a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigation traced $150,000 in Saddamite oil money to the bank account of Galloway's (now-estranged) wife. Days later, the final release of the U.N.'s Volcker report uncovered an additional $120,000 in illicit transfers. On top of this, the reports traced hundreds of thousands of dollars more that were channeled into an organization that Galloway used to lobby for the lifting of Iraq sanctions. Now, in addition to having his original mischief exposed, Galloway may face perjury charges both in the U.S. and in Britain, where he has vehemently denied corruption charges under oath. Strange to say, but true: He gives politicians a bad name.
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