Oh, this is just too damned good.

Before the Iraq War started, two Democratic dopes went to Iraq and spoke to us about how painful it would be for the Iraqi children. They appealed to us to not do anything and just leave the status quo in place.

Newly opened documents, however, show that the trip was underwritten by Saddam Hussein.

Please, contain your shock.

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.

The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.

Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

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.”

You didn’t know it at the time?

Are you fucking with me?

I don’t know a single soul in this country other than the ones who were drooling over the seditious and treasonous comments they made while they were there that didn’t believe the damn thing was bought and paid for by Saddam as an appeal to the anti-war idiots who riddle this country.

The fact that they were unaware of that at the time proves that none of them should be involved in the operation of our government. If you miss something that obvious, you’re too damn stupid to serve in it.

Case closed.