Lots of buzzing over Howard Dean’s telling slip o’ the tongue on Meet the Press yesterday in which he confused Saddam and Osama (video via Jackson’s Junction; transcript at MSNBC):

But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn’t true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make to this day that Osama bin Laden had something to do with supporting terrorists that attacked the United States. That is false. The 9-11 Commission, chaired by a Republican, said it was false.”

Whaaaa?

Dean repeated the mistake again:

And the truth was Osama bin Laden was a very bad person who was doing terrible things, but that Iraq was never a threat to the United States. That was the truth.

Whoops. Looks like Dr. Dean can’t keep his crackpot attacks straight. Recall that in December 2003, he waded into the far-left swamps to float the theory that Bush knew in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks–leading Charles Krauthammer to diagnose Dean with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

That, and an opportunistic infection of foot-in-mouth disease.

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Related:

Pat Hynes on Dean’s first 100 days.