Fred Thompson is Lying or Stupid

According to cnn.com, presidential candidate Fred Thompson was asked to react to Osama bin Laden's first public communication in three years. More specifically, he was asked if the United States should have captured bin Laden and fully dismantled al-Qaeda prior to invading Iraq. This is what he said:

“It's not an either/or situation; sometimes you don't have a choice. Saddam Hussein was on the cusp as having defeated the United Nations and the free world and the United States. He had certainly had weapons of mass destruction and had the capability of reviving his nuclear program. In light of what Iran is doing today with their nuclear program, he certainly would have gotten back on the stick and gotten there again…"

WHAT?

Fred Thompson just said that "Saddam Hussein was on the cusp as having defeated the United Nations and the free world and the United States..."

I don't know what he's even trying to insinuate with this one but it certainly could be interpreted as a gaffe. How could a war hawk Republican interpret Saddam Hussein's 2002-2003 political and military power as anything remotely capable of bullying anybody, let alone "the United Nations, the free world, and the United States." As I recall, we found him in a hole in the ground covered in fleas. Remember this?


Anyways, Thompson's statement there was poorly worded and bizarre and I won't go into it further. The part of the quote that is more relevant and more indicative of this man's perspective as a presidential candidate was the following sentence:

"He had certainly had weapons of mass destruction and had the capability of reviving his nuclear program."

I'm sorry but that is total bullshit. It is totally misleading. It is an outright lie. It was a lie that this administration told again and again and again as justification for beginning the War in Iraq. We all remember Colin Powell at the United Nations don't we? He truly does regret that speech now.

And it has been proven to be a lie again and again and again by media outlets after they woke up and realized they were supposed to ask questions.

So what does this say about Presidential candidate Fred Thompson? Not even Bush administration officials fabricate WMD evidence about Iraq anymore, preferring to forget that they ever told the lies in the first place. So what is Thompson doing? Is he trying to be more misleading and ill-informed than the current president? Do you think he is satisfied with the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as well? Does he think we're stupid?

Fred Thompson certainly is a serious contender to be the Republican nominee in 2008 and that means he has a good shot at being our next President. How does that sound?

Maybe to win the Republican nomination, you have to say a bunch of crazy shit that is plainly untrue because so many Republican primary voters continue to trust anything and everything that comes from the mouths of the administration, including that there were WMDs in Iraq.

I haven't read any outrage on the internet about this statement yet. It could be because it's Saturday. I hope that this one doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

Why does Fred Thompson even need to run? He's an actor on Law and Order so he's already famous.

Hey this is America and you can never be famous enough. You can always be famous-er.