If you say GWB and don't back it up with some AMAZING facts, I amoung others will probably give you a thumbs down. But it is your right to choose that answer, and I'll give you a thumbs up if you make a good arguement.
2006-12-09 16:08:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
George galloway...heres a transcript of his testimony before the U.S. Senate in june 2005.
Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.
“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.
If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.
"Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.
"Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it.
"Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government."
© 2005 Times Newspapers
2006-12-09 16:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by dstr 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this is like what bill said: it all depends on what you mean by "if". nobel? nobel? for most muslims it might be bin laden. for england i might be tony blair. in south africa it could be manella or mantella or whatever. in north korea is must be the little toad with the nukes. etc. etc. for me, as a retired journalist, every last sob has dark secrets. mother teresa probably had secrets nobody alive could imagine. which year, which century, today or when. i see nothing nobel in the royal family at Windsor. ???
2006-12-10 00:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is the most influential of all leaders at this time. Everyone almost notice what he says especially on issues concerning politics and religion.
2006-12-10 00:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
GW Bush and yes he is as bad as you think and the rest are worst yet! Read Machiavelli's Prince and understand that is how the leaders of the world think, and as they think so are they.
2006-12-10 00:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by sean e 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are all full of crap. They all just trying to keep the power they have and manipulate the people to get their way. Screw em all.
2006-12-10 00:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by HOVO 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋