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US: Saddam Paid for Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip

Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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.

At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq.

The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. None was charged and Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said investigators “have no information whatsoever” any of them knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.

Nothing surprising here. I long felt McDermott should be tried for treason.

Today a coward probably working at the behest of a cowardly group bombed the military recruiting office in Time Square.

Cops Probe Letters Regarding Times Square Bombing

A special place in Hell is waiting for these sick bastards. I only hope they get to it sooner rather than later, and I hope they rot.

In ref. to The Drudge Report revealing for all the world to know, that Prince Harry was serving in a combat role in Afghanistan.

After reading this post via this post I have to agree that it was not good for Drudge to have used his great reach to expose such a secret.

It would be one thing for Drudge to have done this if the Prince were in a rehab center, but he was serving in combat. Not only did this put the Prince in danger but all of the troops he was serving with.

So maybe next time, Drudge could be a little more considerate.

Major Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq serving his country. He had a friend publish this post in that event.

I would like to express my deepest sympathies to his family.

Man this made me sad. I did not even know of him but now I will never forget him.

He reminds us of what democrats have said and probably what they wish the could take back. Well maybe some of them at least. Maybe.

I only hope history reminds everyone of the sorry state the democrats put themselves. Voting and saying at every turn anything and everything against the country, the military and its sitting President. For this I hope they pay.

‘The surge has not worked and will not work.’

…but I think the media is for thinking he and his administration is.

It has been clear from the very beginning, even before he was sworn in, that the media was doing every thing they could to make Bush and his administration look incompetent. From his very election that they still see as illegitimate. How he handled 9-11, the aftermath, The Afghan War, The Iraq War, Katrina, the floods, the fires, the everything. I think quite the opposite has taken place. Just look at how much the media has lost in reputation since 2000.

From the beginning I think Bush realized the media was never going to be on his side. That no matter what he said or what he did, the media had an agenda and they were going to stick to it. Bush could have brought about world peace. The media would find away to fault him for it on in the very least not give him credit.

So I think when history is written by the historians long after I am gone. It will finally be realized that this was a time of a great leader and how he contributed to a revolution in the world and in the media. A media that was so corrupt on perceived power it brought about their down fall and the birth of a new media that was controlled by everyone and no one.

Source: Mismanaging the Infowar

Today the Ol’ Gray Bitch reported good news out of Iraq. Begrudgingly.

Today the Loons on the Left are flopping all over themselves denying it.

Today the Ol’ Crotchety Marine, Murtha says we can’t win.

Just a typical day on the Left.

As film makers try to portray the Iraq War in the way they see it. America as the bad guys and the enemy we face as the good guys. These films will continue to fail. Probably the only place these films will do well is with our enemy or in countries who are hostile with our success.

Plenty of great heroic stories have come out of this conflict. Unfortunately these heroic stories do no fit these film makers misguided agendas. Every was in history has had ugly moments, just as every family has skeletons. Only the sick and twisted would prefer to dwell on the ugly parts as opposed to put it behind them and accentuate the positive.

Of course it will only take one good movie to portray a heroic story, of which there are many, and then greedy Hollywood will be all over it to cash in on it. The one true moral Hollywood has, is whatever makes them the most little green rectangles.

Source: Hollywood is casualty of war as movie-goers shun Iraq films

With hundreds of Iraqis returning to the country and with Muslims and Christians working hand in hand for mutually assured happiness, one might think that peace is coming to the middle east. If this keeps up and keeps improving, the media might finally be forced to recognize it.

The latest democrat spin is that this is the deadliest year so far in Iraq without ever mentioning the facts on the ground and the improvements that are taking place. democrats will stop at nothing to win defeat in Iraq.

Sad Bastards…

Democrats and Waterboarding is nothing more than a political issue. If they feel so strongly about the issue then maybe they should simply pass a law explicitly making the practice illegal.

They won’t because they realize the importance of not binding our hands more than they already are in an effort against an enemy that would not hesitate to do thing much worse.

They won’t do it also because hypocrisy is their middle name.

Source: Democrats and Waterboarding

If your main source of news comes from the mainstream media once a day every day, you may miss this bit of news.

U.S. troop losses plunge in Iraq

I heard Dennis Miller talking about this the other day on the radio. The Mission Accomplished thing aboard the aircraft carrier that the President appeared in front of. The one that the democrats and the media made such a big deal out of. And continued to harp on.

This whole thing was was intended to express the mission was accomplished for the sailors aboard the ship, not what the democrats and their willing accomplices in the media tried to make it. That the War in Iraq was accomplished. Even though President Bush made it clear we still had a long hard slog to finish the job.

I can only hope that the media will one day look back on this with shame. I am not holding my breath though.

This is really disturbing that an American Soldiers life hung in the balance while lawyers decided if it was legal to wire tap the enemy.

I am sure you feel just terrible about this democrats. This is all your fault.

Refs: ‘WIRE’ LAW FAILED LOST GI

FOX News Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 Democrats Say World Will Be Better Off if U.S. Loses War

Nearly one out of every five Democrats thinks the world will be better off if America loses the war in Iraq, according to the FOX News Opinion Dynamics Poll released Thursday.

The percentage of Democrats (19 percent) who believe that is nearly four times the number of Republicans (5 percent) who gave the same answer. Seven percent of independents said the world would be better off if the U.S. lost the war.

That sounds about right.

I am going to make up a number of say 20% more, just don’t want us to win. Another 20% want just to give peace a chance. The remaining 40% think we can talk to the terrorists and convince them to change their evil ways.

This is so funny. It is amazing that Saddam and his support for terrorism only existed when democrats were either running for office or in when they were in office.

Only democrats can pull off this hypocrisy and get away with it.