Iraq Reviews > Saddam Officials Financed Secret Pre-War Iraq Trip for US Lawmakers
[A NEWT ONE] Congressional Republicans are looking into possible disciplinary measures for Jim McDermott and Jim Thompson, two House Democrats who traveled to Baghdad on the eve of votes in Congress to approve the Iraq War. The third member, David Bonior, has since retired from Congress.
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[Don't Get Me Started...] Ex-CAIR chief Indicted for ”Baghdad Jim junket: “Let’s note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the president at his word.
[The Strata-Sphere] Saddams Surrendercrat Puppets In Congress, Working For The Enemy: Any American Citizen, regardless of whether he is Joe Six Pack or an elected official, should be held accountable for working with foreign governments and entities against his own country. It has always been treason and it should be labeled treason even in today’s politically correct world.
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[Political Forum] Saddam Officials Financed Secret Pre-War Iraq Trip for US Democrat ...: Al-Hanooti worked on and off from 1999 to 2006 as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan 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.
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[Don Surber] Saddams Three Stooges: Al-Hanooti worked on and off from 1999 to 2006 as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan 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.
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[Political Forum] Saddam Paid For Jim McDermotts ”02 Junket: Between 1999 and 2006, he worked on and off as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a charity 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.
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[Red Pills] Vermont: Legislators demanding the recal of their National Guard ...: Ron Paul","Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.--Dr. Ron Paul","Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple.
[The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD] Jewish writers confirm that the Iraq War was a war for Israel, not ...: If more Americans are not made aware of the truth about Zionist Israel, you can be sure that, sooner or later, those atheists who claim to be God’s Chosen People will trick the U.S. into a Mideast war against the Arabs who in the past have always been America’s best friends.”
[FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog] The Three Stooges Go to Iraq: 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.
[Judicial Watch -] Hussein Used Spy To Pay For Democrats Iraq Trip: Iraqs deceased dictator, Saddam Hussein, paid for three Democratic members of Congress to visit his country right before the U.S.-led invasion and the trip was arranged through a federally indicted Iraqi spy who operates an Islamic charity in Michigan.
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[Koreanpower999's Weblog] Smears and Tears: How Obamas National Security Week Turned Into ...: Zbigniew Brzezinski, an otherwise serious person, made the extraordinarily silly comment belittling two-term Senator Clinton by comparing her experience to that of Mamie Eisenhower and his own travel agent after offering an analysis of the situation in Iraq and the path to a resolution that essentially mirrored the basic points Senator Clinton made in her speech. Brzezinski was not asked and did not explain why Obama early embraced him as an adviser and openly praised him, but recently has coldly distanced himself because of Brzezinski’s controversial views on Israel.
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[Antiwar.com Blog] Perle, the New York Times, and Chutzpah: Perle, for example, has always insisted that 9/11s operational mastermind, Mohammed Atta, met with an Iraqi intelligence official, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, at a Prague cafe five months before the suicide hijackings, despite the fact that the CIA and the FBI have both concluded that Atta was in Florida at the time of the alleged meeting. When al-Ani was captured by U.S. forces last July, Perle declared that his version of events would soon be confirmed, but then, in a suggestion that the CIA could not be trusted, added, “a lot depends on who is doing the interrogating.” By all accounts, al-Ani has steadfastly denied ever meeting Atta, a problem Perle has not addressed lately.
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[Untitled] Anti-war Democrats junket was on Saddam: As the Los Angeles Times reported on March 22, Kerry never supported formal meetings between the North Vietnamese and American anti-war protesters: “Kerry recalled his opposition to VVAW [Vietnam Veterans Against the War] leaders meeting with North Vietnamese officials. ‘I thought that would be disastrous to the credibility of the organization,’
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[Justmytruth's Weblog] Real ID, Do-Over?: This week marks the American public�s last chance to convince their Senators they don�t want to live in a nation that demands papers from its citizens as they go about their lives.
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[Big Dogs Weblog] Democrats Did Husseins Bidding: Democrats Did Husseins Bidding Related PostsHow the MSM remembers Saddam (lovable scamp)Chalk one up for Obama’s Iraq SolutionAre the Russians back up to their old/new tricks?I hate to double Fred it the first day back…Clearing out some linksRandi Rhodes mugged Check out all the outrageous campaign gear here! Political bumper stickers, t-shirts, parodies, and more for election 2008.
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[Anselmalois's Weblog] Pelosi: Iraq War 'a grotesque mistake': PELOSI: And so while we don’t have the 60 votes to overcome the Republicans in the Senate, or we don’t have the president’s signature, we have the right position on this issue. And the American people know it.
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