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Old 03-26-2008, 06:31 PM   #1
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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. That's the only reason we went."


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Old 03-26-2008, 06:34 PM   #2
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Rats are traitors nothing new here.
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Yes, because it was Democrats who faked and sexed up intel and led us to invade a sovereign nation that never attacked us. Nothing new here.
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Yes, because it was Democrats who faked and sexed up intel and led us to invade a sovereign nation that never attacked us. Nothing new here.
And this little mini-rant has what to do with the topic at hand?
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And this little mini-rant has what to do with the topic at hand?
And here you are following ME around. Different when you do it, I suppose.

When your ally turns it partisan, rest assured it will be held accountable. Talk to him, not me.
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And here you are following ME around. Different when you do it, I suppose.

When your ally turns it partisan, rest assured it will be held accountable. Talk to him, not me.


My ally? I have no allies.

And I'm not seeing a problem here. If Saddam paid for David Bonior and that other lying rat McDermott to visit Iraq--considering that they came back from that trip crying about how Saddam was a wonderful person--then they're guilty of treason, or damn, damn close.
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My ally? I have no allies.

And I'm not seeing a problem here. If Saddam paid for David Bonior and that other lying rat McDermott to visit Iraq--considering that they came back from that trip crying about how Saddam was a wonderful person--then they're guilty of treason, or damn, damn close.
Then you have a very loose, convenient interpretation of the term.

By the way, how does one "cry about how wonderful" someone is? What does that even mean?
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An American official floating unsubstantiated allegations against an American president during a visit to Baghdad would be troubling enough. But McDermott compounded his problem by insisting, despite its twelve years of verifiable prevarication, that the Iraqi regime should be given the benefit of the doubt on inspections and disarmament. Said McDermott on "This Week": "I think you have to take the Iraqis on their face value."

But McDermott and Bonior only accept Iraq's more conciliatory statements at face value. They selectively ignore those statements by Iraqi officials defying the international community's demand for unfettered inspections. Even after Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan made clear that inspectors would not be allowed into presidential sites--some 12 square miles of Iraqi territory--McDermott claimed the Iraqi regime really wanted to be accommodating. "They have given us assurances that there will be unfettered inspections," McDermott said at an October 2 press conference he held with Bonior after returning from Iraq. "In the United States, we have a tradition, we have a Constitution that says if there's a bad person there, we give them due process and inspections is the due process in this example."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...1/737zcgnk.asp

He also apparently has never read the Constitution.
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Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

That's what Bonior and McDermott did, acted to aid the enemies of the US.
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Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

That's what Bonior and McDermott did, acted to aid the enemies of the US.
I'm sorry. Were we at war in 2002? I believe the fear-enduced resolution hadn't passed yet. Also, did you read the story? Oops:
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said investigators "have no information whatsoever" any of them knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.
Like I said: Loose enterpretation you've got there.
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