bagdhad Jim in the news again...

from the Seattle Times Our very own Representative Jim McDermot opened his mouth yet again and said: bq. On Seattle radio yesterday, Rep. Jim McDermott questioned the timing of Saddam Hussein's capture, saying, "I'm sure they could have found him a long time ago if they wanted to." bq. His comments came during an interview on "The Dave Ross Show" on KIRO-FM. bq. "I've been surprised they waited, but then I thought, well, politically, it probably doesn't make much sense to find him just yet," he said. bq. "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing that it happened on this particular day," he continued. Jim was the one who went to Bagdhad, met with Saddam and decried the US efforts. More from the article: bq. In September 2002, McDermott made news when he traveled to Iraq and told television interviewers that President Bush would mislead the public to justify an invasion. bq. It's an incident that continues to reverberate on Capitol Hill. bq. Two months ago, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, wrote McDermott a personal letter after McDermott denounced a comment by a member of DeLay's office. The staffer said McDermott had attacked the U.S. while he visited Iraq. bq. Instead of an apology, DeLay wrote: "Your words, had they been spoken in the United States, would have amounted to mean-spirited but predictable mediocre hackery. That they were uttered in Saddam's Iraq, however, perhaps within shouting distance of a torture chamber or mass grave, elevated (or lowered) those remarks to the sickening embarrassment they were." Gotta love the last paragraph there (emphasis mine)