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By: Bob Parks’ Daily Dose

Now, this kind of stinks, don’t it?

According to the Associated Press,

“Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

“An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.”

Why is it that Democrats seemingly love to embrace our enemies?

One local version of this story conveniently left out the fact that these are anti-war Democrats we’re talking about. There is this stereotype that liberals are freeloader types. United States congressmen have money, and at any given opportunity, don’t hesitate to give the American people the privilege of footing their bills.

Then again, if they (or we) pay for such a trip, there will be some kind of paper trail. But if someone else pays for it, we may not know about it, that is, until someone gets… indicted.

Why would United States congressmen go on a junket to a country they know we’re about to be in a military conflict with? Did they go to negotiate? Were they going to volunteer to become human shields? They were criticized for going.

“Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, the second-ranking Senate Republican at the time, said the Democrats ‘sound somewhat like spokespersons for the Iraqi government.’”

Oh, by the way, the congressmen were Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California, and there’s no proof to date that they knew their trip was courtesy of Saddam Hussein. Now this is only me, but if someone were paying for my trip half way around the world, I think I would know who was paying for it. That is, unless getting international trips paid for is so common, no one asks.

To date, nobody knows nothing. It always amazes me how the congressmen and senators declare themselves brilliant enough to impose legislation that sometimes has serious effects on our lives, yet when there is any hint of malfeasance on their part, nobody knows nothing.

That’s not so say this won’t change. We’re only at the infancy of this controversy. Many mainstream media outlets won’t “discover” this story for a couple more days, but there’s smoke here…

“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.”

Let me cut to the quick here. Al-Hanooti “was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service.” Since there are Democrats involved here, that’s a nice way of saying Al-Hanooti was a SPY.

So let’s break it down.

An Iraqi intelligence agent is able to contact United States congressmen. That Iraqi intelligence agent is successful in luring three (whose agendas are sympathetic to Iraq) to come to that country prior to a military action. While in country, those congressmen spread that nation’s propaganda.

“Obviously we didn’t know it at the time,” McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. “The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children. That’s the only reason we went.”

During the trip, the lawmakers expressed skepticism about the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

“War is not the answer,” Bonior, who is no longer in Congress, said at a news conference while on the trip. “There is a way to resolve this.”

They went for “children”. Don’t get me started. Undermining your country’s foreign policy is okay, as long as you’re doing it for “the children”.

And the SPY, Al-Hanooti, was paid two million barrels of Iraqi oil for arranging the trip. It sounds like this trip was very important to Saddam Hussein, because unless we’re talking about Russian rubles during the 70’s, two million of anything is an impressive payment for services rendered.

For now, nobody knows nothing. Like I said, it’s early….