Lord Haw Haw, as you may recall, was a British citizen who Hitler tagged to broadcast German Propaganda to the UK during WWII. George Will thinks he has identified a new generation of Haw Haws in the Democratic party. Democrats McDermott and Bonoir have done a fine job acting as Saddam apologists, and contributed mightily to the general public's(read: average American) perception that the Democratic party is completely out of touch with reality (of course Al Gore and Tom Daschle have done a bit to help that perception along).

Some great quotes from the article:

[from McDermott] "I think you have to take the Iraqis on their value -- at their face value." And: "I think the president would mislead the American people."

So, Saddam is to be taken at face value, but our own president is to be doubted. Is this dissent, or sedition?

The good stuff from Will:

McDermott and Bonior are two specimens of what Lenin, referring to Westerners who denied the existence of Lenin's police-state terror, called "useful idiots." Perhaps Iraqi officials, knowing fathomless gullibility when they see it -- they have dealt with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan -- actually said such things.

and:

McDermott's and Bonior's espousal of Saddam Hussein's line, and of Gore's subtext (and Barbra Streisand's libretto), signals the recrudescence of the dogmatic distrust of U.S. power that virtually disqualified the Democratic Party from presidential politics for a generation. It gives the benefits of all doubts to America's enemies and reduces policy debates to accusations about the motives of Americans who would project U.S. power in the world.

Go read the entire thing.