Pete Burns of Dead or Alive in "Celebrity Big Brother&a

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

In other news: Thanks to a British forum for sharing this news..

Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns (You Spin Me Round "Like A Record" fame/megahit back in 1984) signs up for Celebrity Big Brother. Will for sure ruffle feathers with his bitchy, no-nonsense style.



Pete Burns (pic above). Once quoted "Im Venus with a penis".

SOURCE: http://theinternetforum.co.uk/bigbro...elebrity1.html

~Kisses.

HTG

[Chica]

in the house theres a right bunch..

Dennis Rodman - cross dressing basketball player
Pete Burns - plastic faced, nasty lips crossdresser
Michael Barrymore - gay, killer
Jodie Marsh - slut, rival to "Jordan"
Traci Bingham - ex baywatch actress
Faria Alam - found fame by sleeping with two big names in sport
George Galloway - Friends with saddam hussein and took a bribe off him, supports muslim activities
Rula Lenska - no idea who she is
Maggot - In a band called Goldie Lookin' Chain, who had a song called "Your mothers got a penis", and some other crap
Preston Samuel - In a band, never heard of him, some celebrity isnt he?
Chantelle - Not a celebrity, but has to pretend to be one to stay in the house

i used to watch these all the time, but recently odd people have been going in, and it gets stupid, last year, jackie stallone went in... they killed a great concept

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

LOL@their description.

Ive always liked Pete Burns not because of how radical, avantgarde she/he looks and handles her/himself but I love DOA's music as well.

"Nukleopatra" cd was fabulous! I also heard not to long ago from a gravevine that Pete Burns had an affair with Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain (was a big DOA fan).

~Kisses.

HTG

[Chica]

the music was a bit before my time, but i liked spin me round track and another i cant think of atm... when he went in, he got boo'ed and stuck the middle finger up, i don't think someone like that is good for the TS community, someone like that is more of a freak, there was another winner, who used to do porn, dubbed the "Portugeezer" Nadia Almada... no-one in the house knew of the sex swap until they got out

[danny27]

cheap garbage tv . costs nothing to produce . a whole series can be produced for less than $200 !! So all the money collected in advertising and infalted rip off $5 a minute premium phoine vote lines is pure 100% profit . All the minimal costs are covered within the first ad break !!!- the reaminder take is pure adulterated profits . Endemol set up only 2 or 3 years ago has made well over $2 BILLION churning out this shit and garbage rubbish and sewage !!! Endemol was set up by a greedy corrupt degenerate ex bbc producer peter bazal ( who's father morry bazal was a bbc govenor who corruptly gave his son without any experience qualification or knowledge a $1 million a year job s producer . The bbc is one o fthe most corrupt degenerate organisations in teh world . It is funded by a compulsary tax of about $250 dollars year on evey man woman and child in the UK . So that if a tv or any device that can redive a signal is our chased that person is coerced and forced to buy a bbc "licence" whether or not they ever watch the bbc !!! To not have a bbc licence is in fact in UK a CRIMINAL oofence - and bbc tax evasiion is the largest casue of single women being imprisoned in the UK . Rupert Murdoch who lrgely owns and runs sky stellite tv , for whom I hold no particualr brief , ahs openly challenged the bbc when all tv goes digitial in uk , for the bbc to scrap the licence fee and have aviluntary payemtn through deigital subsctiption as sky has . He has received of course no reply . The situtaion is analogous to for example the US governent announcing it will produce a cola . US citizens don't have to buy or drink it , but if they wish to buy a cocal cola or pepsi coal then each time they do they must pay an equivalent sum to say bush cola co. as if they had drunk or pruchased abottle of bush . uncle sam cola . Of ourse US cittizens woudl never stand for that !!! The bbc while milking in over $6 BILLION a year in pure profit and jailing single mothers for not buying a bbc licence ( bear in mind ther are 3 otehr free terretrial channels as well 20 free digital channels or for $380 a year can have about 200 sky chanels as opposed to $240 for bbc 5 channels ( but if someone subscribes to sky , sky legally HAVE to inform bbc , who then can ddem that person must buy a licence , WHETHER OR NOT THEY WATCH EVER WATCH A SINGLE BBC PROGRAMME !!!! The viewer can then be taken to court fined given a criminal record even imnprisoned which has happended !!! With the billions raked in the bbc doles out obscene salries to presenters e.g. greedy narasha kaplinski or breakfast tv and come dancing - 1 hours presenting 5 morings a week $500,000 a year , that gredy bastard and cunt wa recently exposed after atending acharity event atr whcih $50,000 was foled out to it for its appearnce from teh charities money , and saying it was giving teh money to teh charity - had inf act pocketed half of it for itslef - teh bbc is full of filth and corruption - eery year bbc applies to givt for rise which is alwasy several times inflation !! - teh government always ignores media and opublic and gives in as bbc acts as govt. propoganda machine in return . ANwya peter bazal while at bbc made programmes which are aboslute shit e.g. ready steady cook !! absolute shit . Two chefs cook dish - agaisnt teh clock a tthe end the audience vote for the best dish - cost snothing to produce and bazal invoices his cronies at teh bbc about $3 milli0n an episode - a whole series cost sless than $200 to make as he uses bbc falitilites staff and equipment !! The presnter a greey ex actor abisly harriot is doled out $4 million a year for about a weeks works a year - ( whole series can ealsiy be mde in week doign several day with thesame audience and studio basicall penisones unemployed menatlly ill who will sit ther wathcing absolute shit for galss of wine !!! ) Theis what the bbc licence fee funds . Anyway bazal went in to fund further frquds such as bb . BB costs nothign to produce and the so called celebrities are clapped out has beens thatbno one else woudl toiuch at any price . eg barrymore - a whole eries wasfikmed jsu tbefore his swimming pool scandal - and is on teh shelf and will NEVER be shown by ITV !!! The peson ciommisisoning bb at ch 4 is bastard an cunt called luke johnson , he is the son of corrutp trunhcoat journalist paul johnson a p[honey turncoatr daily mail journalist who purported to be left wing then when thatcher became pm , miraculoaously became tory andmde maillions wrigin groelling articles for teh daily mail and ssending his odious offsping luke to priate schoold . luke johnson before takingover ch. 45 which screen rthe shit bb , was anotoitous share ramper and stoick market swindler . he took over the pizza express chain using huge laons from banks - to make extra nmaoney sacked all the Italian staff , who had built up the chain , replacing them with incoemptent udnerpoaid easdt europeans and reducing teh size of pizza ( an dplates in teh hope peopel woudl not notice !! ) He then ramped the price up on teh stock market using city cronis two of whom were just conisted of insuider trading but under u.ks. lkudcirous crony old schol tie code rules nothign willhapeen to them ( unlike the US wher bastards and cunts liek the enronmtehives have tehri stoel c=fortuns conricatied and they ar jailed for long periods , as hoefully the bastqrd and cunt , depraved theif ley , nothiwhstanding his polcitical ties , will in due course be ) . IN uk. someon stealing a laod of bread form supermarkert will be far more likely to ever go to prison than a corporate bastard cunt tehif who steals £100 million - e,g, conrad black teh bastard cunt t=deoraved tehiving cunt properietor of the telegrapoh who it wa swellknown was raping teh company of every penny - nothing was ever done by th crooupt city of london police led by rthe degeneate tehif c=bstard and cunt james heart , city of London polcie are SUPPOSED to olice the city - but that is ajoke !! conrad black had and still couel be free to fly back and forth to London by private jet ( bouth with stoelne money , with his bastard caunt slut udnerage wife barbra ameil who sucked him off and he gave $2 millio ayea contract to write a 100 word colum , ameil had never previously ever held andy jounalistic poistion whatsoever before sucking off teh old cunt black - anyway these two bastards are free to travel Londoan say at top hotels - it is only in te US that the tehif black is beign proecuyted and hoepfully will besrtripepd of every cent he stole !!! The US had got an order poreventing him returning to UK because they know bastardds and cunt slike james hart teh corrutp head of teh city of london police will in return for bribes protect the tehives balck and ameil and aloow then to slip to athird country form where they cannot be extrdited - also the head of siothebys who was jailed in US for price fixing - nothig whatover has happend to his UK coujnhterpoarts who were jsut if not more guitly than taubman himself !!! However if a hoemless person steals paf of bread in teh city of Lonjdon you can be sure the city of London plice led by the corrupt degeneate bastard and cunt james hart will arrive within minute with two paddywagosn full of cops with hand cugffs tear gas and batosn to fdrag that homelss hungry poerson to court to jail him without bail !!! Bote james hart and his corrupt city polcie wopucl not ven preven bombs being planted in aldge staion killing 55 people in JUly !!!
Any bb ncommisione dby the basard and cunt luke johnson of chaneel 4 ,Johnson who forces waiters awatiress to wrok 12 hour shifts without a break in his charin of over priced fikth reastaurants -0 recently attemnpted to dio eaiters job in one of hiw own reaturants for documntary -afte about haf an hour johnsons a 6 stone effenibnate bullya nd weed was huffing a opyffing rupped off the unirfrom and toild the film crew to fuck off and the lazy bastrd ahd to take years cruise to reciver from half an hours physical work , and ran offsuling like the effeninat elittel f=girl theif bastard johnson is !!!!
anyway big brotehr is abosute shit and tyoical of teh shit bazalk and johnso woudl produce - cheap nasty chav shit and garbge poduced by theives !!!
The presenter davina nccall is bastard abdcutn who fakes fake enbthusisan everytiem soem contived thign non event happens 0 while secretly thinking what load of odl shit thsi is - I cna';t bvelive anyone woudl watch such shit - Isuppose chavs do - lucky MY chidlren are in pruivate schools and willnow be skiing in Swutzerlkand and won;t ahve to watch this shit , cmmcall is an absolyte bastard abd cuyjnt and has just been doled out a huge $10 million year contract by the corrupt bbc to presbnt a chat show 1 hour a week ( thsi ciontract wa sdoled out to her by her crony the corrutp degerenrat tehfi whio direcrtor of BBC who was he former boss at ch 4 _ mccall is complet bastard andcunt . She live isn ahuge $4c mnaiion in Surrey and a mobiel phone company was palnnign to put up a phoen mast near to her mansion . She went in all teh papers and news saying hwo disgraceylk these mass are how they threaten chidlredsn health with mcicrowaves etc, and manage dtehough publcity to get the palns cahnged so teh mat was not pout anywher near to her huge chav. mansion . Aas soon s that had been doen she accepted $2 from viodapohoen to advertise pohoens- her raionale was " my chidlred are safe DASMN everybody elses chidlren . This onsecenely ugly bastard and cunt recely pushed her ugly way onto chariuty crook bob geldhod=fs recent live aid coinert as precnter - she dopen't give adamn about children in her own country let aloine any chidlren in africa !!!
the bb is just kep going by bribing cirrupt newpaper editors to plabnt sories ion frnt pges of every paper - in a emnporers new clothes tuype of publscity - ie.e. every body else seems to be watching - oh ! it MUS be good
Oh yeak okay then - it;s a laod of cheap grabarge sewage and shit .
bazala nd johnsonand n=mccall are garbage seawge shiot of teh worst type who are ruying tv and the whole media dn UK cutlure rearding disgusting fowul moth people for digisting beahviour by gving them money an dpfree poublciity !!!
I hop in due course it will fail !!

[MoonAndStar]

i need a rest.... all those damn words.... and no spaces.... if my eyes are tired.... your fingers must be twice as tired.....


;~)

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

OMG I think Ive gone epileptic just looking at danny27's long winded comment.

~Kisses.

HTG

[mikeoxlong]

in the house theres a right bunch..

Dennis Rodman - cross dressing basketball player
Pete Burns - plastic faced, nasty lips crossdresser
Michael Barrymore - gay, killer
Jodie Marsh - slut, rival to "Jordan"
Traci Bingham - ex baywatch actress
Faria Alam - found fame by sleeping with two big names in sport
George Galloway - Friends with saddam hussein and took a bribe off him, supports muslim activities
Rula Lenska - no idea who she is
Maggot - In a band called Goldie Lookin' Chain, who had a song called "Your mothers got a penis", and some other crap
Preston Samuel - In a band, never heard of him, some celebrity isnt he?
Chantelle - Not a celebrity, but has to pretend to be one to stay in the house

i used to watch these all the time, but recently odd people have been going in, and it gets stupid, last year, jackie stallone went in... they killed a great concept

wasn't proved that he had anything to with any atrocities (Rumsfeld and Reagan had more of hand in that more than any other westerners) or are you trying to say he's al-qaeda cos he has a good relationship with the muslim community. and then does that mean you think all muslims and muslim activity is bad?

[chefmike]

in the house theres a right bunch..

Dennis Rodman - cross dressing basketball player
Pete Burns - plastic faced, nasty lips crossdresser
Michael Barrymore - gay, killer
Jodie Marsh - slut, rival to "Jordan"
Traci Bingham - ex baywatch actress
Faria Alam - found fame by sleeping with two big names in sport
George Galloway - Friends with saddam hussein and took a bribe off him, supports muslim activities
Rula Lenska - no idea who she is
Maggot - In a band called Goldie Lookin' Chain, who had a song called "Your mothers got a penis", and some other crap
Preston Samuel - In a band, never heard of him, some celebrity isnt he?
Chantelle - Not a celebrity, but has to pretend to be one to stay in the house

i used to watch these all the time, but recently odd people have been going in, and it gets stupid, last year, jackie stallone went in... they killed a great concept

wasn't proved that he had anything to with any atrocities (Rumsfeld and Reagan had more of hand in that more than any other westerners) or are you trying to say he's al-qaeda cos he has a good relationship with the muslim community. and then does that mean you think all muslims and muslim activity is bad?

Sorry to go off your topic sexygeisha, but Chica's remark about Galloway is questionable, to say the least...




Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 by the Times Online (UK)
Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement
George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, delivered this statement to US Senators today who have accused him of corruption

"Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader. and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one - and neither has anyone on my behalf.
"Now I know that standards have slipped in the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.



I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.



"Now I want to deal with the pages that relate to me in this dossier and I want to point out areas where there are - let's be charitable and say errors. Then I want to put this in the context where I believe it ought to be. On the very first page of your document about me you assert that I have had 'many meetings' with Saddam Hussein. This is false.

"I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, once in 1994 and once in August of 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as "many meetings" with Saddam Hussein.

"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 Defense made of his.

"I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and Americans governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. I used to demonstrate outside the Iraqi embassy when British and American officials were going in and doing commerce.

"You will see from the official parliamentary record, Hansard, from the 15th March 1990 onwards, voluminous evidence that I have a rather better record of opposition to Saddam Hussein than you do and than any other member of the British or American governments do.

"Now you say in this document, you quote a source, you have the gall to quote a source, without ever having asked me whether the allegation from the source is true, that I am 'the owner of a company which has made substantial profits from trading in Iraqi oil'.

"Senator, I do not own any companies, beyond a small company whose entire purpose, whose sole purpose, is to receive the income from my journalistic earnings from my employer, Associated Newspapers, in London. I do not own a company that's been trading in Iraqi oil. And you have no business to carry a quotation, utterly unsubstantiated and false, implying otherwise.

"Now 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. If you had any of the letters against me that you had against Zhirinovsky, and even Pasqua, they would have been up there in your slideshow for the members of your committee today.

"You have my name on lists provided to you by the Duelfer inquiry, provided to him by the convicted bank robber, and fraudster and conman Ahmed Chalabi who many people to their credit in your country now realize played a decisive role in leading your country into the disaster in Iraq.

"There were 270 names on that list originally. That's somehow been filleted down to the names you chose to deal with in this committee. Some of the names on that committee included the former secretary to his Holiness Pope John Paul II, the former head of the African National Congress Presidential office and many others who had one defining characteristic in common: they all stood against the policy of sanctions and war which you vociferously prosecuted and which has led us to this disaster.

"You quote Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Well, you have something on me, I've never met Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Your sub-committee apparently has. But I do know that he's your prisoner, I believe he's in Abu Ghraib prison. I believe he is facing war crimes charges, punishable by death. In these circumstances, knowing what the world knows about how you treat prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, in Bagram Airbase, in Guantanamo Bay, including I may say, British citizens being held in those places.

"I'm not sure how much credibility anyone would put on anything you manage to get from a prisoner in those circumstances. But you quote 13 words from Dahar Yassein Ramadan whom I have never met. If he said what he said, then he is wrong.

"And if you had any evidence that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this committee today because I agreed with your Mr Greenblatt [Mark Greenblatt, legal counsel on the committee].

"Your Mr Greenblatt was absolutely correct. What counts is not the names on the paper, what counts is where's the money. Senator? Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars of money? The answer to that is nobody. And if you had anybody who ever paid me a penny, you would have produced them today.

"Now you refer at length to a company names in these documents as Aredio Petroleum. I say to you under oath here today: I have never heard of this company, I have never met anyone from this company. This company has never paid a penny to me and I'll tell you something else: I can assure you that Aredio Petroleum has never paid a single penny to the Mariam Appeal Campaign. Not a thin dime. I don't know who Aredio Petroleum are, but I daresay if you were to ask them they would confirm that they have never met me or ever paid me a penny.

"Whilst I'm on that subject, who is this senior former regime official that you spoke to yesterday? Don't you think I have a right to know? Don't you think the Committee and the public have a right to know who this senior former regime official you were quoting against me interviewed yesterday actually is?

"Now, one of the most serious of the mistakes you have made in this set of documents is, to be frank, such a schoolboy howler as to make a fool of the efforts that you have made. You assert on page 19, not once but twice, that the documents that you are referring to cover a different period in time from the documents covered by The Daily Telegraph which were a subject of a libel action won by me in the High Court in England late last year.

"You state that The Daily Telegraph article cited documents from 1992 and 1993 whilst you are dealing with documents dating from 2001. Senator, The Daily Telegraph's documents date identically to the documents that you were dealing with in your report here. None of The Daily Telegraph's documents dealt with a period of 1992, 1993. I had never set foot in Iraq until late in 1993 - never in my life. There could possibly be no documents relating to Oil-for-Food matters in 1992, 1993, for the Oil-for-Food scheme did not exist at that time.

"And yet you've allocated a full section of this document to claiming that your documents are from a different era to the Daily Telegraph documents when the opposite is true. Your documents and the Daily Telegraph documents deal with exactly the same period.

"But perhaps you were confusing the Daily Telegraph action with the Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor did indeed publish on its front pages a set of allegations against me very similar to the ones that your committee have made. They did indeed rely on documents which started in 1992, 1993. These documents were unmasked by the Christian Science Monitor themselves as forgeries.

"Now, the neo-con websites and newspapers in which you're such a hero, senator, were all absolutely cock-a-hoop at the publication of the Christian Science Monitor documents, they were all absolutely convinced of their authenticity. They were all absolutely convinced that these documents showed me receiving $10 million from the Saddam regime. And they were all lies.

"In the same week as the Daily Telegraph published their documents against me, the Christian Science Monitor published theirs which turned out to be forgeries and the British newspaper, Mail on Sunday, purchased a third set of documents which also upon forensic examination turned out to be forgeries. So there's nothing fanciful about this. Nothing at all fanciful about it.

"The existence of forged documents implicating me in commercial activities with the Iraqi regime is a proven fact. It's a proven fact that these forged documents existed and were being circulated amongst right-wing newspapers in Baghdad and around the world in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Iraqi regime.

"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. 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 the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion 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 the 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 you gave to American military commanders to hand out 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 earlier 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."

© 2005 Times Newspapers

[mikeoxlong]

Sorry to go off your topic sexygeisha, but Chica's remark about Galloway is questionable, to say the least...




Published on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 by the Times Online (UK)
Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement
George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, delivered this statement to US Senators today who have accused him of corruption

"Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader. and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one - and neither has anyone on my behalf.
"Now I know that standards have slipped in the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.



I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.

I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.



"Now I want to deal with the pages that relate to me in this dossier and I want to point out areas where there are - let's be charitable and say errors. Then I want to put this in the context where I believe it ought to be. On the very first page of your document about me you assert that I have had 'many meetings' with Saddam Hussein. This is false.

"I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, once in 1994 and once in August of 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as "many meetings" with Saddam Hussein.

"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 Defense made of his.

"I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and Americans governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. I used to demonstrate outside the Iraqi embassy when British and American officials were going in and doing commerce.

"You will see from the official parliamentary record, Hansard, from the 15th March 1990 onwards, voluminous evidence that I have a rather better record of opposition to Saddam Hussein than you do and than any other member of the British or American governments do.

"Now you say in this document, you quote a source, you have the gall to quote a source, without ever having asked me whether the allegation from the source is true, that I am 'the owner of a company which has made substantial profits from trading in Iraqi oil'.

"Senator, I do not own any companies, beyond a small company whose entire purpose, whose sole purpose, is to receive the income from my journalistic earnings from my employer, Associated Newspapers, in London. I do not own a company that's been trading in Iraqi oil. And you have no business to carry a quotation, utterly unsubstantiated and false, implying otherwise.

"Now 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. If you had any of the letters against me that you had against Zhirinovsky, and even Pasqua, they would have been up there in your slideshow for the members of your committee today.

"You have my name on lists provided to you by the Duelfer inquiry, provided to him by the convicted bank robber, and fraudster and conman Ahmed Chalabi who many people to their credit in your country now realize played a decisive role in leading your country into the disaster in Iraq.

"There were 270 names on that list originally. That's somehow been filleted down to the names you chose to deal with in this committee. Some of the names on that committee included the former secretary to his Holiness Pope John Paul II, the former head of the African National Congress Presidential office and many others who had one defining characteristic in common: they all stood against the policy of sanctions and war which you vociferously prosecuted and which has led us to this disaster.

"You quote Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Well, you have something on me, I've never met Mr Dahar Yassein Ramadan. Your sub-committee apparently has. But I do know that he's your prisoner, I believe he's in Abu Ghraib prison. I believe he is facing war crimes charges, punishable by death. In these circumstances, knowing what the world knows about how you treat prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, in Bagram Airbase, in Guantanamo Bay, including I may say, British citizens being held in those places.

"I'm not sure how much credibility anyone would put on anything you manage to get from a prisoner in those circumstances. But you quote 13 words from Dahar Yassein Ramadan whom I have never met. If he said what he said, then he is wrong.

"And if you had any evidence that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this committee today because I agreed with your Mr Greenblatt [Mark Greenblatt, legal counsel on the committee].

"Your Mr Greenblatt was absolutely correct. What counts is not the names on the paper, what counts is where's the money. Senator? Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars of money? The answer to that is nobody. And if you had anybody who ever paid me a penny, you would have produced them today.

"Now you refer at length to a company names in these documents as Aredio Petroleum. I say to you under oath here today: I have never heard of this company, I have never met anyone from this company. This company has never paid a penny to me and I'll tell you something else: I can assure you that Aredio Petroleum has never paid a single penny to the Mariam Appeal Campaign. Not a thin dime. I don't know who Aredio Petroleum are, but I daresay if you were to ask them they would confirm that they have never met me or ever paid me a penny.

"Whilst I'm on that subject, who is this senior former regime official that you spoke to yesterday? Don't you think I have a right to know? Don't you think the Committee and the public have a right to know who this senior former regime official you were quoting against me interviewed yesterday actually is?

"Now, one of the most serious of the mistakes you have made in this set of documents is, to be frank, such a schoolboy howler as to make a fool of the efforts that you have made. You assert on page 19, not once but twice, that the documents that you are referring to cover a different period in time from the documents covered by The Daily Telegraph which were a subject of a libel action won by me in the High Court in England late last year.

"You state that The Daily Telegraph article cited documents from 1992 and 1993 whilst you are dealing with documents dating from 2001. Senator, The Daily Telegraph's documents date identically to the documents that you were dealing with in your report here. None of The Daily Telegraph's documents dealt with a period of 1992, 1993. I had never set foot in Iraq until late in 1993 - never in my life. There could possibly be no documents relating to Oil-for-Food matters in 1992, 1993, for the Oil-for-Food scheme did not exist at that time.

"And yet you've allocated a full section of this document to claiming that your documents are from a different era to the Daily Telegraph documents when the opposite is true. Your documents and the Daily Telegraph documents deal with exactly the same period.

"But perhaps you were confusing the Daily Telegraph action with the Christian Science .. The Christian Science . did indeed publish on its front pages a set of allegations against me very similar to the ones that your committee have made. They did indeed rely on documents which started in 1992, 1993. These documents were unmasked by the Christian Science . themselves as forgeries.

"Now, the neo-con websites and newspapers in which you're such a hero, senator, were all absolutely cock-a-hoop at the publication of the Christian Science . documents, they were all absolutely convinced of their authenticity. They were all absolutely convinced that these documents showed me receiving $10 million from the Saddam regime. And they were all lies.

"In the same week as the Daily Telegraph published their documents against me, the Christian Science . published theirs which turned out to be forgeries and the British newspaper, Mail on Sunday, purchased a third set of documents which also upon forensic examination turned out to be forgeries. So there's nothing fanciful about this. Nothing at all fanciful about it.

"The existence of forged documents implicating me in commercial activities with the Iraqi regime is a proven fact. It's a proven fact that these forged documents existed and were being circulated amongst right-wing newspapers in Baghdad and around the world in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Iraqi regime.

"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. 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 the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion 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 the 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 you gave to American military commanders to hand out 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 earlier 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."

© 2005 Times Newspapers

but i'd still like chica to answer my questions.