Useful Idiots for Terror

Breitbart:

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.

The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.

Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at the behest of Saddam's regime. Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

Useful idiot liberals for terror and torture.

P.S. The Obama foreign policy

UPDATE: Even the NY Times reports this. Nice quote here:

''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.''

Both McDermott and Thompson are popular among liberal voters in their reliably Democratic districts for their anti-war views. Bonior is no longer in Congress.

Of course, it was "for the children". Remember at the time we were supposed to be starving Iraqi children with sanctions. Of course it came out later that Saddam was using the UN Oil for Food program to bribe "opinion leaders" (or finance useful idiots as noted above), totally greedy foreign officials--children were not being fed. WSJ back in 2005 on the largest fraud in history:

As for the U.N., it proved its worth to Saddam as the one hall of mirrors in which such shenanigans could take place. Yet even now we are told that "at least" Oil for Food fed the Iraqi people when they were on the edge of starvation, and this is accounted a U.N. success. That is false. Oil for Food offered a lifeline of cash and influence to a regime that was starving its people. The program did not corrupt the U.N. so much as exploit its essential nature.

Saddam was stockpiling arms and putting children in jail. And apologists in the West were letting him do it--fawning over him for political gain.

Can we expect an apology from these Democrat congressmen for being accessories to criminal behavior and Saddam's war crimes?

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