The Three Stooges Meet The Butcher

Bob Parks responds to the Associated Press report that the late Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency, through a non-profit group in Michigan, secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion. The black conservative Republican commentator writen: "Why is it that liberals seemingly love to embrace our enemies? One local version of this story conveniently left out the fact that these are anti-war Democrats we’re talking about. There is this stereotype that liberals are freeloader types. United States congressmen have money, and at any given opportunity, don’t hesitate to give the American people the privilege of footing their bills. Then again, if they (or we) pay for such a trip, there will be some kind of paper trail. But if someone else pays for it, we may not know about it, that is, until someone gets… indicted."

My response: I don't believe that the three Congressmen in question knew that Saddam Hussein was footing the bill, although perhaps one could argue that they should have delved deeper re: who was funding the trip.