Pro-Saddam MP Denies Being Compensated for His Services

British MP George Galloway--the rabidly left-wing polemicist who once visited Saddam Hussein and praised him for his "courage, strength, and indefatigability," and who called on Arabs to attack British troops during the Iraq war--was in Washington today, defending himself against charges from a US Senate committee that he accepted bribes from Saddam through the notoriously corrupt UN Oil-for-Food program. Galloway was his typical combative self, and vigorously denied that he accepted any bribes from Iraq, which begs the question: Which is worse, getting paid to be an apologist for Saddam, or doing it for free?