MP Galloway says

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 a real oil for food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, first 14 months, when 8.8 billion dollars 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 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 dollars that you gave to the military commanders, the handout 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 ?? 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.

I've yet to determine if it's the form of goverment or simply the culture that allows for such a differnt take on politics. Take the town forums for example. Yes, yes, Bush filter his attendants with a strainer, but in all fairness I have to admit the Kerry probably did the same, or at the very least roped off his ditractors. But Tony Blair sat in a hot seat and was brutally raped by angry citizens wanting answers. I really wish we'd of brought that sentiment along on the boats...