More Reasons Why Legislators Should Not Engage in Do-It-Yourself Diplomacy

We are shocked - shocked! - to hear that three members of Congress went to Iraq in 2002 to praise the regime of Saddam Hussein, and that Saddam paid for their junket. As this Investor's Business Daily editorial points out, this was not an isolated incident; other useful fools have been manipulated like Play-Doh into parroting statements that worked against the interests of the United States.