More liars and no one to call them on it

MICHAEL SCHEUER, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden unit in the Clinton Administration made this comment during an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Snowball”(Hardball, it aint…) on 9 November

MATTHEWS: Michael, just to think outside the box, would we be better off with Saddam Hussein still running tyrannically that country of Iraq, right next door to Jordan? Would Jordan be more secure in that environment?

SCHEUER: No doubt about it, sir.

MATTHEWS: No doubt?

SCHEUER: There'd be many more dead--many fewer dead Americans, and we would have many more resources available annihilate al Qaeda, which is what we have to do. Without a doubt, in the war against al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was one of our best allies.

Now, it wouldn’t be quite as insane a comment except that Mr. Scheuer actually outlined a number of instances where Saddam was ca-hooting with Al Qaeda and Al Zarqawi back in 2002.