None so blind...

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.

Comments

[Cory]

Tools of a murderous thug, or agents of change struggling in the oppressive shadow of a nascent totalitarian state controlled by Rovian stormtroopers?

[Kenneth Pike]

They can't be both?

[Dennis]

I am calling this Saddam Hussein's "Oil for Fools" program.