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YOU DON'T STEP ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE
YOU DON'T SPIT IN THE WIND
YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH THE OL' LONE RANGER
AND YOU DON'T LIBEL GEORGE GALLOWAY, NOT EVEN CONGRESS


GALLOWAY SMACKED THOSE LYING NEOCONS SO SILLY, THEY DELETED HIS
TESTIMONY FROM THE OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL SENATE HEARINGS LIKE THEY
DELETED REP. CYNTHIA MCKINNLEY'S HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT BUSH'S
INVOLVEMENT IN 911 ATROCITY.

May 22, 2005

Big bucks beckon Galloway
Jason Allardyce Nick Fielding


GEORGE GALLOWAY is to cash in his new-found status as the poster boy
of the anti-war movement in America with plans for a speaking tour
that could earn him a six-figure sum.

He has returned to Britain from his barnstorming appearance on
Capitol Hill with what his associates claim is a firm offer of a two-
week lecture series in America.

One friend said that Galloway could now set himself up as a successor
to Michael Moore, whose documentary, Fahrenheit 911, became a
lightning conductor for enemies of President George W Bush.

The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow is also likely to boost his
profile in America by fitting in a series of free events, addressing
opponents of the occupation of Iraq.

"I think in the United States the ground was tinder dry, waiting for
a spark like this. The democratic underground is alive with the
transcript and video screening of this event (with the senators), so
there are a lot of people in the United States who are very happy
about it," he said.

Dominic Morley, a director of Speakers UK, one of Britain's largest
such agencies, said he thought that the MP would be able to charge
about $25,000-$30,000 (£14,000- £16,000) per engagement.

According to Jeremy Lee, managing director of JLA, a speakers'
bureau, Galloway's main asset is his achievement in breaking through
the "recognition barrier" in America. He believes he could fulfill 20
paid-for engagements in a fortnight.

He achieved that recognition in an extraordinary 15-minute
performance in front of a US Senate sub-committee last Tuesday to
challenge its allegation that he had accepted oil money from Saddam
Hussein.

From the moment he arrived in Washington, he turned on his accusers,
describing himself as "the leader of the British anti-war movement".

He even turned to his advantage his meetings with Saddam. "As a
matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of
times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald
Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps to target
those guns," he said.

"You have nothing on me, senator, except my name on lists of names
from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of
your puppet government in Baghdad."