McCain Transition Chief Helped Saddam Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

Just when you thought you couldn't find anymore weird McCain lobbyist ties we get this from the Huffington Post:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

This just seems nutty to me.  It's one thing to get lobbyists on your campaign who were working separate sides of the same issue, but this is pretty extreme.  How does McCain's senior foreign policy advisor, who lobbied on behalf of Ahmad Chalabi to overthrow Saddam work with his transition team coordinator who was working with people who were lobbying on Saddam's behalf?  This would make me laugh if it wasn't so disturbing.

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[dotmafia]

What's so disturbing?

It should be blatantly transparent by now that McCain is a lying egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who feels the presidency is owed to him. People like that will do anything or hire anybody to get what they want.