This smear against Galloway - his 'profiting' from Saddam's regime - has been dragging on for years now.

The smear has been perpetrated by very powerful people in very high places. So why can't the mud be made to stick?

The reason Galloway keeps 'winning' this argument (or 'escaping' the charge) is because it has no foundation.

Hitchens is such a sore loser. If he was a true 'intellectual', he would grow-up, move on and focus his attention on revising his arguments re:Iraq (rather than continuing to whine about Galloway). But Hitchens is not an intellectual; he is a whore who sold himself to the neocons, deluding himself that Bush's concern in Iraq was human rights rather than control of oil.

Hitchens' whole discourse re:Galloway is merely a tantrum.

Hitchens fancies himself as a 21st Century Orwell, but, as Galloway correctly observed, he is merely a slug - who should retreat back beneath the nearest stone. (Cockburn has also identified appropriate words to describe Hitchens.)

Right again Rippon,

After four years of investigations in 2 countries and God knows how much money spent, the worst charge that the British parliament could come up with was that Galloway didn't offer the other cheek against the lame allegations made against him.

it is quite remarkable that Galloway's critics continue to insist he took money from Iraq (even though all reports say there is no evidence) when even the man who was the alleged source of the OFF dealings has himself not even been charged with such crimes.

It was really amusing when the so called confession from Tarik Aziz, implicating Galloway was made public. Hitchens jumped to his feet and declared that the smoking gun had been revealed and dismissed any notion that the confession had been tortured out of Aziz, who had by then, been in Us custody for 2 years.

The following day, Aziz's lawyer denied that any such confession had been made and that Aziz had declared Galloway innocent of any wrongdoing, to which Hitch responded by declaring that Aziz could not be trusted to tell the truth.

Absolutely priceless.