Remember when three Congressmen (including Jim McDermott of Seattle) traveled to Baghdad before the war?
Apparently Saddam paid for the trip.
According to the AP:
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.
. . . The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Seattle Democratic McDermott, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. There was no indication the three lawmakers knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam. The trip earned McDermott the moniker "Baghdad Jim."
So McDermott goes to Baghdad to disagree with the Commander-in-Chief and the trip was paid for by the enemy.
If that's not illegal, it should be. "Obviously we didn't know it at the time," McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said today. "The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children. That's the only reason we went." Right.
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