This afternoon, we learned that three members of the House of Representatives went on a Saddam Hussein-funded junket to Iraq in 2002. The trip was organized by a member of the Iraqi intelligence service.
I do not imagine, for a moment, that the gentlemen knew that a tyrant was funding their trip. But how could they not see that they were being used as tools for propaganda by a murderous thug?
I am certainly not surprised, though it's nauseating to learn that one of the three Congressmen is my own representative from California's First District, Mike Thompson.
Tools of a murderous thug, or agents of change struggling in the oppressive shadow of a nascent totalitarian state controlled by Rovian stormtroopers?
Posted by: Cory | 27 March 2008 at 13:54
They can't be both?
Posted by: Kenneth Pike | 28 March 2008 at 12:48
I am calling this Saddam Hussein's "Oil for Fools" program.
Posted by: Dennis | 31 March 2008 at 16:26