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[Previous entry: "Cheap Seats"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Mr Wiggles asks an age old question."] 05/17/2005 Entry: "Mr. Smith goes to Washington, err Mr. Galloway that is." Mr. Smith goes to Washington, err Mr. Galloway that is. The Senate gets a big fat dose of reality. Reading this puts a big, big smile on my face. Love the Rumsfeld part. Wonder how they're goingto spin this on the news tonight. "Crazed anti-American pinko Englishman attacks clearthinking patriotic godly Senator!" As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defence made of his.See also: Full transcript here.
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