On Saddam's (D, Hades) payroll

Remember in late 2002, when Congressmen Jim McDermott (D, WA), David Bonior (D, MI) and Mike Thompson (D, CA) went to Iraq to get photo ops with Iraqi children and denounce the Bush administration? At the time, they sounded as though they were on Saddam's payroll, as they impugned President Bush's integrity and voiced strong skepticism against the approaching campaign. As it turns out, they were indeed on Saddam's payroll, as the AP reports. A story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_re_us/iraq_junket
shows that a non-profit organization in Michigan financed the trip with money it had laundered from Saddam himself. McDermott's spokesmen are claiming that they knew nothing about Saddam's involvement, but the situation begs several questions.
If they didn't know the source, where did they think the money came from? Did they think a lobbyist would pay for them to go to Iraq? McDermott admits that his entire purpose was to showcase the children who would be hurt by the invasion. He is not stupid - he had to know at the very least that Saddam could not have designed a better propaganda tool than three American Congressmen denouncing their own government on Iraqi soil surrounded by children. It doesn't matter whether McDermott knew Saddam had actually paid money - he fought part of Saddam's propaganda war for him. The argument amounts to, "I have no self-interest in this matter; we American useful idiots do the bidding of mass-murdering dictators free of charge."
What did Bonior know? Bonior was the Michigan native; he would be most likely to know something about the organization giving them money. I anticipate updates on this story.