Another reason lawmakers should pay for their own travel: A prewar trip to Iraq by three anti-war members of Congress reportedly was paid for by Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency. “Obviously, we didn’t know it at the time,†said a spokesman for Rep. Jim McDermott (in photo), D-Wash., who was accompanied on the trip by then-Rep. David Bonior of Michigan and Rep. Mike Thompson of California. The Democratic congressmen are lucky to come away from the flap with red faces. The Michigan charity official who allegedly set up the junket now faces federal charges.
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