Following one and a half hours of evidence against him at a US Senate Committee hearing, British MP George Galloway turned the tables on accusers who alleged that he made gains during Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.
The left-wing politician went to Congress to defend his name against allegations he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal funds from the UN Oil for Food programme.
However, Mr Galloway said it was his American accusers who must answer for the ‘disaster’ caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the deaths that have been seen since.
Mr Galloway told committee chairman Norm Coleman, ‘everything I said about Iraq turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people have paid with their lives.’
The Scottish politician vehemently denied ever receiving oil kickbacks from Saddam's regime and dismissed the hearing as ‘the mother of all smokescreens.’
His scathing denunciation of the Iraq venture left some US lawmakers squirming in their seats, particularly when he urged them to refocus their UN investigations from the world body and onto the role played by Washington.
However, speaking after the hearing, Mr Coleman said he did not think Mr Galloway had been a 'credible witness'.
