Dupe is as Dupe Does
It’s past my bedtime, but is there no shame left?
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency footed the bill for a U.S. congressional delegation’s trip during a buildup to the Iraq war, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen charged with spying for the Iraqi government.
Muthanna al-Hanooti, a former official with an Islamic charity in Detroit, Michigan, was taken into custody Tuesday night. Hussein’s spy agency secretly paid al-Hanooti 2 million barrels of oil, during the time the U.N. Oil for Food program was in place, for services rendered, the indictment states.
Those services included providing the Iraqi government with the names of U.S. members of Congress believed to favor the lifting of sanctions against Iraq, arranging for delegations of those members to visit Iraq and traveling with those delegations, the indictment states.
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said no member of Congress was aware of al-Hanooti’s alleged activities. “None of the congressional representatives are accused of any wrongdoing, and we have no information whatsoever that any of them were aware of the involvement of the Iraqi Intelligence Service,” he said.
SO THE F**K WHAT???
That just makes them ignorant dupes, instead of merely dupes alone.
The indictment did not name the lawmakers, but Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California made a trip to Iraq at that time.
McDermott spokesman Mike DeCesare said the congressman knew nothing about al-Hanooti. McDermott was asked to make the trip to discuss children’s health issues because he is a physician, DeCesare said.
Thompson said in a written statement that he made the trip “to learn as much as I could before voting on whether or not to commit U.S. troops to war.”
“The trip was approved by the U.S. State Department,” he said.
“The organization sponsoring the trip was licensed by the Office of Foreign Assets of the Department of Treasury and the United Nations. Obviously, had there been any question at all regarding the sponsor of the trip or the funding, I would not have participated.”
Stop! Not another word!
If I don’t hear an apology to the troops and to the American people, I don’t want to hear a peep out of these… these quislings. As far as I’m concerned, if these snakes in the grass and Obama and Clinton are what the Democrats have to offer, they should just close the shutters and go out of business. They are bankrupt every way you possibly can be.
Shame. Shame. Shame. Look it up if you’re not familiar with the word.