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Galloway vs. The US Senate:
Transcript of Statement
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. . . 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 [be] 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
[updated 3/15/07 to 660,000+ Iraqi civilians
and 3200+ 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.
