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DiplomacyThree congressmen were caught traveling to praise prewar Iraq on Saddam Hussein's dime in 2002. Others have made pilgrimages to pay tribute to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. This is getting out of control.As the U.S. prepared for war in October 2002, Washington state's Jim McDermott flew to Iraq on a Saddam-praising junket with fellow Democrats Mike Thompson of California and David Bonior of Michigan. Rather than support the U.S., they condemned U.N. sanctions, vouched for Saddam's probity and publicly declared America's democratically elected president a liar. None of it had anything to do with the congressmen's claimed concern for Iraqi children,...

You may remember the Chicago-based Islamic website Soundvision.com which hosted messages celebrating and applauding the suicide bombing in Israel last week, such as these highlighted by Daniel Pipes: ************************************************************************** SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing. The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street ("Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and handed out sweets to celebrate a suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus," reads one account). More noteworthy is the public, English-language...

Baghdad arrival of three democratic elected officials of the American Congress Friday September 27, 2002 - 6h29 GMT BAGHDAD, 27 seven (AFP) - Three democratic elected officials of the American Room of the representatives arrived Friday to Baghdad to evaluate the consequences of an attack of the United States against Iraq, noted a journalist of the AFP to the airport. The members of Parliament, David Bonior (Michigan, north), Michael Thompson (California, west) and Jim McDermott (state of Washington, the North-West), had arrived on board a Jordanian plane. They left at once the international airport of Saddam Hussein towards hotel...