"I would be very interested to read the proof of McDermott's being paid by Iraq! I didn't hear this one. Is it a fact? Where is the article?"
The Weekly Standard has a very long article. I admit, the payment McDermott received was from an ex-patriate who was in contact with Saddam. Read it and let me know if I overstated it--perhaps I did based on this information. The McDermott/Bonior trip to Iraq comes toward the end of the article.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900792/posts "On October 25, McDermott received a check for $5,000 from Shakir al-Khafaji. The money, first reported by Amy Keller in Roll Call, had been deposited in an account for the McDermott Legal Expense Trust, a fund the congressman set up to pay legal bills in a lawsuit brought against him by Rep. John Boehner."
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04/27/2003 9:43:13 AM PDT by
cyncooper
(thousands of cheering Iraqis yelled, "America, America, America," and "Bush, Bush, Bush.")