If looks could kill.
“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.”
Four words you never thought you’d see in the same sentence: “journalism giant Linda McQuaig”
Open thread for Thursday tips.

These newly issued cards are going to be eventually given to residents of every Province.
B.C. has the same cards there but for a longer time. Already its become the preferred card. More so than even drives licenses.
This may be gossip but from what I am hearing these act like an internal passport like the old Soviet Union employed. Or like our SIN number cards have become as well , will they be privy to other agency’s as that card became?
Already some folks can’t get certain benefits or services without this card. Now its started in Alberta. Who’s next & what is behind this?
So far no ones picked up on this which really bothers me.
http://www2.gov.ab.ca/home/NewsFrame.cfm?ReleaseID=/acn/200709/22016D741CD3E-BFB9-994B-C57194F10798AEF1.html
http://www.cippic.ca/national-id-cards/
http://www.icbc.com/Licensing/lic_utility_id_cardPU.asp
B.C. Identification card:
http://www.governmentagents.gov.bc.ca/progdesc/bcid.htm
So far this is all I have been able to gleam. Why so quiet about this is my first question?