Baghdad Bonior - Firsthand look at Iraq underlines perils of attack

Detroit Free Press ^ | 10-18-02 | BY DAVID E. BONIOR

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I was recently in Iraq as part of a delegation of members of Congress who traveled there to observe the humanitarian conditions, press upon the Iraqis the need for weapons inspections and gain insight into the dangerous implications a unilateral, preemptive strike would have on U.S. national interest. These are subject areas generally ignored in our current discourse.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Traitor.

[Diogenesis]

"THIS JUST IN:

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"FLASHBACK LAST MONTH:

Iraqi Health Minister Omaid Medhat to McDermott (D-Wash, Iraq), Bonior (D-Michigan, Iraq),
and Thompson (D Calif, Iraq):

"Thank you all for being so incredibly stupid and traitors
to your country. Do you realize that here in Iraq we, from Tikrit,
must gang-rape entire families, and then cut up some of the
children into tiny bite-sized pieces which we feed to our dogs as their parents watch,
before those parents will lower themselves to the very lowly position from which you first approached us.
Saddam thanks you very very much, and we will soon send more instructions after you return. br>You may begin by impugning your President in your media."

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THE REAL DANGER FROM IGNORING THE BUTCHER SADDAM FROM TIKRIT

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja [March 1988].

[IncPen]

I wonder if his campaign paid for the trip. Somehow I think it was the rest of us.

I was recently in Iraq as part of a delegation of members of Congress who traveled there to observe the humanitarian conditions,

We know this already, moron...

press upon the Iraqis the need for weapons inspections

Um, isn't Bush doing this? And the other appeasing moron, Kofi Annan?

and gain insight into the dangerous implications a unilateral, preemptive strike would have on U.S. national interest.

Watch the friggin' Oprah show. She gets it better than the New York Times!

These are subject areas generally ignored in our current discourse.

Well yes, if you're over in Iraq and listening to their media.

This guy is the poster boy for retaking the Senate. Words cannot describe the derision I feel for Bonoir.

[OldPossum]

One good thing to think about: as of January this creep will not be in Congress and he'll have no forum from which to speak.

[TWfromTEXAS]

PING

[ravingnutter]

I wonder if his campaign paid for the trip. Somehow I think it was the rest of us.

Even worse:

Bonior, McDermott and Thompson went to Iraq as guests of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Interfaith Network of Concern for the People of Iraq. The Interfaith Network is part of the Seattle International Human Rights Coalition, an extremist group that stages protests against the United States and counts among its members the Palestine Information Project, the Irish Northern Aid and Citizens for Overt Action.

“The Seattle International Human Rights Coalition has known connections with Middle-East and Northern Ireland terrorist organizations,” says terrorism expert Andrew Josenson. “They are on the FBI watch list.”

So, three United States Congressmen allow an organization with terrorist ties to sponsor them on a trip to a country that is a sworn enemy of the United States. While there, they absorb the propaganda spoon fed in a carefully-controlled environment and then issue statements that question the integrity of the United States and the credibility of its leaders.

Sounds like treason to us.

Capitol Hill Blue

[RightOnline]

Bonior.............ever hear the expression "useful idiot"?

You just provided the quintessential example........in spades.

[pgyanke]

Bonior: ...It is understanding the nature of suffering inflicted upon innocent Iraqis in the aftermath of the Gulf War and the potential for further harm with a new military engagement.

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It is understanding the anger of a nation unjustly attacked and the suffering inflicted upon innocent civilians. We are not attempting to engage in a new military engagement with the Iragis. We are answering their challenge and acknowledging a war they have been waging against us for years...and we have been ignoring.

We are no longer ignoring the threat Muslim extremists pose to the non-Muslim world. You are a fool for spewing their propaganda for them.

The problem with Iraq isn't sanctions. If the sanctions caused such economic calamity, Saddam Hussein wouldn't have been able to build his new "presidential" palaces and his military arsenal and eat like the pig he is while his people starve. The problem is him (and people like you) not the USA.

[LiteKeeper]

That's what we said of Klintoon when he left office. Somehow he has found a voice!

[OldPossum]

That is true, but he was a president. They somehow keep a forum but I doubt that a former congressman has the same entree. I may be wrong, though, since this Bonior is a Democrat.