Depends on what the under the table agreements are.
The ChiComs, too, were donors.
Did Wen Ho Lee destroy the tape of the warhead data--believe Bill Richardson, Clinton's DOE secretary?
As has been noted six times, diplomacy is ninety per cent pre-meet prep and deal; ten per cent pomp and ceremony.
Let me be the first to stipulate the quid pro quo was ali Hussein's assurance to not interfere with Dear Leader's nuclear program--
--just as he is covering for Ahmadinejad's anti-Jew bomb.
The entire two-women-prisoner drama was a pretext: the administration of communists here gets to boast of success--the adiministration of communists there gets to build more bombs.