If he's lying, George Galloway is the most ballsy liar ever! That was an amazing performance in front of a U.S. Senate committee that had accused the British MP of accepting bribes from Saddam Hussein's regime.

Some excerpts from the BBC story:

Mr Galloway gave one of the most flamboyant Senate testimonies ever

George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.

Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.

He rubbished committee chairman Norm Coleman's dossier of evidence and stared him in the eye.

"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," the MP declared.

The whole room scanned Mr Coleman's face for a reaction. The senator shifted in his seat - nervously it seemed.

It was the first time a British politician had been interrogated as a hostile witness at the US Senate - but Mr Galloway cast himself not as the accused, but the accuser.

On stage at the heart of American power, he attacked the US-led war on Iraq and accused Washington of installing a "puppet" regime there.

For video excerpts, go to this CBC.ca story and click on Neil Macdonald's video report. You won't be disappointed! :)

Here's a link to one Guardian story. and then another. And here's some choice quotes from them:

"Senator, I am not now nor have I ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf," he declared, in language that deliberately echoed that of Joe McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunt conducted half a century ago just metres from the chamber used for yesterday's hearing.

"I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf," he said. ...

"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."

"I know that standards have slipped in Washington in recent years, but for a lawyer, you're remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice." ...

"I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq ... senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong."

Another story worth checking out is this AP story scraped by truthout: