Sen. Orrin Hatch backpedaled Tuesday from a recent claim he made asserting that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaida, and that "Nobody with brains" would deny the connection.
On Tuesday, Hatch said he may have misspoken at the event, and he was speaking of conditions in post-Hussein Iraq and the terrorist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"Saddam clearly had a long history of supporting terrorists, but I was not talking about any formal link between Saddam and al-Qaida before the war," Hatch said in a statement. "Instead, I pointed out that the current insurgency in Iraq includes al-Qaida, under the leadership of al-Zarqawi, along with former elements of Saddam's regime."
Too late beeyotch! You said it, we heard it, and now you have to live with it!
These guys just kill me. They stray from the script and accidently say something that they themselves believe to be true, and then when they find out that everybody else knows that they don't know what they are talking about, they change their story.
"No what you heard me say is not what I really said! It was just your imagination! I said something really smart and you just did not hear it! You are getting very sleepy...."
Gee I wonder how the Democrats are responding to this gaffe?
Utah Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland said the Republican Hatch can't credibly claim to have misspoken. "Senator Hatch, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, no less, stood in front of a crowd of people and made a statement, a statement that is just not true, in what seems to be an attempt to mislead and misinform the people of Utah," Holland said in a statement. "This is not leadership. This is not honesty. This seems nothing more than dirty politics and negative messaging. This is insulting to the people of Utah."
Can we cue Bob Dylan's "The times they are a changin" please?
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