View Full Version : Jim Mcdermott (dem), Saddam Paid
They don't call him Baghdad Jim for nothing.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/saddam-paid-for-mcdermotts-junket-in-2002/print/
KB9YCO
03-27-2008, 05:29 PM
This story reminds me of something, let me think a moment, oh yeah this is what it reminds me of:
http://www.awitness.org/eden2003/rumsfeld_saddam.jpg
ad4mg
03-27-2008, 08:51 PM
They don't call him Baghdad Jim for nothing.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/saddam-paid-for-mcdermotts-junket-in-2002/print/
A few things left out by the bed wetting Momma's boy author, that appeared in the AP feed of the same story:
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.
"Obviously we didn't know it at the time," McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. "The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children.
“The trip was approved by the U.S. State Department," Rep. Thompson said in a statement. "Obviously, had there been any question at all regarding the sponsor of the trip or the funding, I would not have participated.”
In exchange for coordinating the congressional trip, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil, prosecutors said.
DeCesare said McDermott was invited to go to Iraq by a Seattle church group and was unaware of any other funding for the trip.
Distortion through omission. The result of obtaining your news from a cesspool.
Have an incredibly pleasant evening now! :)
k9kxq
03-27-2008, 09:02 PM
Touche,touche and touche!
kxq
KB9YCO
03-27-2008, 09:41 PM
A few things left out by the bed wetting Momma's boy author, that appeared in the AP feed of the same story:
Quote:
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.
Quote:
"Obviously we didn't know it at the time," McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. "The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children.
Quote:
“The trip was approved by the U.S. State Department," Rep. Thompson said in a statement. "Obviously, had there been any question at all regarding the sponsor of the trip or the funding, I would not have participated.”
Quote:
In exchange for coordinating the congressional trip, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil, prosecutors said.
DeCesare said McDermott was invited to go to Iraq by a Seattle church group and was unaware of any other funding for the trip.
Distortion through omission. The result of obtaining your news from a cesspool.
Have an incredibly pleasant evening now!
Are you trying to confuse the poor man with facts? Shame on you!
But this was probably a doctored photo too, you know, by the liberal media!
http://www.awitness.org/eden2003/rumsfeld_saddam.jpg
K0RGR
03-27-2008, 10:20 PM
I wonder what history will say about the two Gulf Wars?
I still want to know what George Bush Sr's ambassador said to Saddam that led him to believe that the U.S. was giving him the green light to invake Kuwait. We've now executed the only other witness, unfortunately. Now we see that some of the evidence used to justify the first gulf war was also likely faked.
I'm really beginning to think we've all been 'played'.
Stupidly far-left Rep. McDermott, who would only be voted in by the insane libs of Western Washington-Seattle and certain parts of California, would NEVER question junket trip funding from a man named, Muthanna Al-Hanooti. :mad:
Give me a break...
Regarding how Al-Hanooti was paid for this earlier trip-paying endeavor for the "Baghdad Three," he arrested Tuesday night while returning to the U.S. from the Middle East, where he was looking for a job, his attorney, James Thomas, said. Al-Hanooti pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil and lying to authorities. He was being held on $100,000 bail.
Prosecutors said Al-Hanooti was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. From 1999 to 2002, he allegedly provided Saddam’s government with a list of U.S. lawmakers he believed favored lifting economic sanctions against Iraq…
Like most Democrats when faced with answering, "I did it for the children" line was used -- being used as a pawn is so lame. Despite tacit approval by the State Department, God's gift of common sense wasn't used here.
He'll be re-elected...
ad4mg
03-28-2008, 12:37 AM
Stupidly far-left Rep. McDermott, who would only be voted in by the insane libs of Western Washington-Seattle and certain parts of California, would NEVER question junket trip funding from a man named, Muthanna Al-Hanooti. :mad:
Give me a break...
Regarding how Al-Hanooti was paid for this earlier trip-paying endeavor for the "Baghdad Three," he arrested Tuesday night while returning to the U.S. from the Middle East, where he was looking for a job, his attorney, James Thomas, said. Al-Hanooti pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil and lying to authorities. He was being held on $100,000 bail.
Prosecutors said Al-Hanooti was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. From 1999 to 2002, he allegedly provided Saddam’s government with a list of U.S. lawmakers he believed favored lifting economic sanctions against Iraq…
Like most Democrats when faced with answering, "I did it for the children" line was used -- being used as a pawn is so lame.
But ... but ... but, the trip was approved by the US State Department.
'Splain that.
I offered nothing of the poli-critters that travelled, just the extreme distortion by ommission by the pitiful "author" of the article from the right wing cesspool.
Give us your insight on that angle.
But ... but ... but, the trip was approved by the US State Department.
'Splain that.
I offered nothing of the poli-critters that travelled, just the extreme distortion by ommission by the pitiful "author" of the article from the right wing cesspool.
Give us your insight on that angle.
Just did...
Despite tacit approval by the state department, God's gift of "common sense" wasn't used here. The State Department will allow trips to many countries citizens shouldn't go, but they do anyway. For Representatives and Senators, I'm sure the list is smaller and the warnings many, but stupid ones, like McDermott, go anyway. Accepting money from a man named Muthanna Al-Hanooti, to a country not in the good graces of the Nation and State Department, indicates a utter lack of common sense, gall, and indifference to then on-going, national foreign relations with Iraq.
n2ize
03-28-2008, 01:05 AM
You broke the link bot?
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N3ATS
03-28-2008, 01:09 AM
That's the wrong code IZE. It should read...
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n2ize
03-28-2008, 01:09 AM
Just did...
Despite tacit approval by the state department, God's gift of "common sense" wasn't used here. The State Department will allow trips to many countries citizens shouldn't go, but they do anyway. For Representatives and Senators, I'm sure the list is smaller and the warnings many, but stupid ones, like McDermott, go anyway. Accepting money from a man named Muthanna Al-Hanooti, to a country not in the good graces of the Nation and State Department, indicates a utter lack of common sense, gall, and indifference to then on-going, national foreign relations with Iraq.
Uh ah... Nice try Stevie baby... but non.
Uh ah... Nice try Stevie baby... but non.
Oh, I'm right on target. Fools can go wherever they want, whenever they want -- despite State Department advice, warnings, etc.
Stupid is as stupid does.
73.
ad4mg
03-28-2008, 01:36 AM
Oh, I'm right on target. Fools can go wherever they want, whenever they want -- despite State Department advice, warnings, etc.
Stupid is as stupid does.
73.
You never commented on the distortion of the "article" posted by 3XR. It conveniently omitted facts of the story that allowed the cowardly bed wetting little pr**k who wrote it to put the ol' right wing partisan spin on it.
I found the attempt by that little bed wetting coward (the author, for clarification) to be unusually transparent and juvenile.
I was wondering what you thought of that angle. You've danced around it now for several posts. Meet the difficult part of the topic head on. I know you are capable.
You never commented on the distortion of the "article" posted by 3XR. It conveniently omitted facts of the story that allowed the cowardly bed wetting little pr**k who wrote it to put the ol' right wing partisan spin on it.
I found the attempt by that little bed wetting coward (the author, for clarification) to be unusually transparent and juvenile.
I was wondering what you thought of that angle. You've danced around it now for several posts. Meet the difficult part of the topic head on. I know you are capable.
NeoKons are in this mode right now where executive departments are really responsible for nothing. They are there for the purpose of rubber stamping, and that is about it. If they admit at this juncture that these executive departments have any responsibility, they would have to acknowledge that the attack on Sept 11th was a major breach in national security, but by not admitting to the responsibilities of their tasks, air headed Rice did no wrong in allowing the attacks after our intel reports made all notifications.
More Baghdad Jim and friends.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=60041
ad4mg
03-28-2008, 01:55 PM
More Baghdad Jim and friends.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=60041
Naw, you were declared null and void with your 1st link in this thread.
No cyborg link-bot poo pen here. You've been outed.
Naw, you were declared null and void with your 1st link in this thread.
No cyborg link-bot poo pen here. You've been outed.
Larry Craig laughs at Dan Linkbotter. :D
KB9YCO
03-28-2008, 03:19 PM
More Baghdad Jim and friends.
More of the Reagan/Bush connection to Saddam: ...we need to put this into its historic context so that I’d like to... talk about how Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, and James Baker who was Secretary of State, and Robert Gates, who was the C.I.A. Director in the 1980’s, how they met what was called a tilt policy in favor of Iraq and against Iran in the 1980’s and developed what they thought was strategic reasons were for the United States to be doing that. Then the sad story of how it got out of control, how Vice President Bush was deeply personally involved in illegal arms transfers to Saddam Hussein in the late 1980’s that shouldn’t have happened, and how the Bush Administration, that’s Bush one, then proceeded with the help of Boyden Gray as White House general counsel and others to cover up a scandal that in my judgment was significantly larger than Watergate. (http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/9/the_reagan_saddam_connection_we_create)
"Saddam's useful idiots....tradition of the American LEFT."
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YmRhZWIzNWJhODQ2NzBlY2YzYzdkYWMxYTQwMDNmNTU=
KB9YCO
03-31-2008, 03:52 PM
You continue to post links without answering the fact that the past few Republican administrations are actually much more responsible for aiding Hussein, as well as being responsible for funding and arming the Taliban in Afghanistan. Any of YOUR OWN WORDS to add to that, or to try and deny it?
Perhaps the reason that you don't answer and just post links to blatantly partisan and slanted sites that omit huge parts of the story is because you CAN'T DENY IT, BECAUSE IT'S TRUE! Besides, we all know that politicians OF BOTH PARTIES will do whatever they deem necessary to fulfill their agenda. Wake up dude, it's happening on both sides of the two-party political isle.
K8YZK
03-31-2008, 04:06 PM
Wonder what kind of check the State Department did before they approved the trip, if they did any.
Also in the article, when McDermott was in Iraq, and did the interview, he said the president(Bush) would lie to start a war with Iraq. Well I guess that was right on the mark. Still waiting for those WMD's to show up..