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Lenin is sometimes credited with coining the term "useful idiots" to describe Westerners who unwittingly collaborated with the Soviet Union.(The Week)(Brief article)
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Lenin is sometimes credited with coining the term "useful idiots" to describe Westerners who unwittingly collaborated with the Soviet Union. Perhaps it's time to pull that Cold War phrase out of retirement and apply it to the current conflict. On March 26, the Department of Justice said that Saddam Hussein's spy agency had funded a junket for three anti-war House Democrats to visit Iraq in 2002. News reports were careful to point out that David Bonior of Michigan (who has since retired from Congress), Jim McDermott of Washington State, and Mike Thompson of California aren't accused of any crime. But their jaunt was ...
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