Good on'yer, George!
George Galloway (recently elected to the UK parliament for the anti-Iraq-war party Respect) has ben raging against US senators and officials in hearings in the USA about their allegation that he personally profited from oil from Saddam Hussein. And he’s been laying into them about his own record on Iraq, their lack of evidence against him and their own dirty hands after the US invasion. It’s good to hear some plain speaking 
Update
A couple of other reports of this confrontation (from the Guardian newspaper) also make amusing reading.
I particularly loved the description of Galloway’s style in the second of those articles as “a feat of bare-knuckled rhetoric not often witnessed by the senators, who are accustomed to considerably more reverence for their positions”. Of course, this is the problem with slandering members of a different country’s Parliament – they’re hardly likely to be cowed by US senators! Perhaps they should have paid just a little attention to the way politics is played over here before expecting humble acquiescence The article ends by saying of the senators, “They had come equipped for a trial and found themselves in the role of stooges for a man accustomed to playing to the gallery.” Which pretty much says it all.
pax et bonum
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