Too bad the President seems to have lost his testicles somewhere in the last four years. Otherwise these treasonous pieces of sh!t would be in the prison cells they so richly deserve.
The term “useful idiot” was invented and spurned with people like McDermott in mind. He’s not very bright and a flaming jackass, thus an easy mark, even for a heinous, murderous criminal such as Saddam.
Democrat hampered FBI
terror probe in Detroit
Ex-Congressman Bonior pressured
agents to stop Arab interviews
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31497
This will be considered a Red Badge of Courage for the Jim McDermott and the Baghdad Boys.
I can’t believe that Jim McDermott, a Vietnam Veteran, would do such a thing. *snicker*
... conservative columnist George F. Will termed Bonior and his two Democratic colleagues "useful idiots"--useful to Saddam Hussein, that is. Pundit Christopher Caldwell termed the Baghdad visit a "treason tour."
ha!
This thread did not come up when I searched, so I posted the later Yahoo/AP article but that thread has just been nuked by the mods for duplication, I suppose. Still, the later article has more details:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_re_us/iraq_junket;_ylt=AofAYBRW.LNfkvM9ivTT9JWs0NUE
Al-Hanooti was arrested Tuesday night while returning to the U.S. from the Middle East, where he was looking for a job, his attorney, James Thomas, said. Al-Hanooti pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil and lying to authorities. He was being held on $100,000 bail.
Between 1999 and 2006, he worked on and off as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a charity group formed after the first Gulf War to fund humanitarian work in Iraq. FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided the charity’s headquarters in 2006 but charged nobody and allowed the agency to continue operating.
McDermott identified that charity as the group financing the Iraq trip. In House disclosure forms, he put the cost at $5,510. Thompson also understood the charity to be financing the trip, spokeswoman Anne Warden said.
Prosecutors said Al-Hanooti was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. From 1999 to 2002, he allegedly provided Saddam’s government with a list of U.S. lawmakers he believed favored lifting economic sanctions against Iraq.
In exchange for coordinating the congressional trip, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil, prosecutors said.
Even at the prices from that day, 2,000,000 barrels of oil is a big hunk of change for bribes.
THese congressment couldn’t have been so naive that they believed an invitation and plush trip from Saddam wasn’t treating with the enemy.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along.
Yeah ... right.
“The lawmakers are not mentioned but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan”
Didn’t this nation used to shoot traitors and collaborators?
Now McDermott will receieve 95% of the vote in his district rather than 90%.
Interesting to see the orgs that support Al Hanouti’s “charity” including LDS.
http://www.lifeusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=wwa_Partners