REALLY REALLY USEFUL IDIOTS

I'm shocked -- shocked to find out that a liberal anti-war politician was on Saddam's payroll. See Andrew Sullivan on this issue and the story from The Independent and the actual documents and communications between a Member of Parliament (Labour Party, of course) and the Iraqi government, including Tariq Aziz. This sort of thing happened all the time during the cold war, so it's no surprise that Saddam learned a little something from history.