Dr. Dean with Chris Matthews on Beanball

Like the vast majority of Americans, I don't watch MSNBC.

However, after learning that Dr. Dean was on Hardball, I did read the transcript of his Bush bashing session with Chris Matthews.

I wish that MSNBC had a larger audience. I wish every American witnessed what the chairman of the DNC had to say.

The interview revealed how demented Dr. Dean is. His drivel proved to offer more reasons why Americans should continue to keep the Dems out of power.

Some highlights:

DEAN: You know, I think that the president made a mistake last night. It was a well-delivered speech, but the idea of doing what he did in the presidential campaign, which is to attach 9/11 to Iraq, was a mistake, because it raises the specter of really is happening in Iraq, which is the president has caused a situation that is a danger to — dangerous to America where one did not exist before.

I supported the Afghan war, and I think most Democrats did, and we probably need more troops in Afghanistan and probably shouldn't be in Iraq at all.

Most Dems supported the Iraq war as well!

As far as attaching 9/11 and Iraq, President Bush has NEVER said that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Dean and the Dems keep lying about that. They should cut it out. They're draining off the final drops of their credibility each time they try to reconstruct reality. They reveal themselves to be clueless.

Moreover, if Dean thinks that Iraq was no danger to the U.S. before the war, he's a complete idiot. He should read Stephen Hayes' book, The Connection: How al Qaeda's Cooperation with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America, and learn about the extent of the danger Saddam's regime presented.


MATTHEWS: Last night [Bush] said the war in Iraq is part of the war on terrorism. What did you make of that, Governor?

DEAN: I certainly agree with the last sentence: he wanted to seek the terrorists abroad before we attacked them at home. The rest of it was only partly true. There are terrible foreign terrorists over there. They have been drawn to Iraq where they were not there before because we put our troops there. So if you could debate the wisdom of that.

The other people that are creating the mayhem in the streets of Baghdad are people who are fighting for their country. They are local people who disagree with the occupation.

What is he talking about?

The insurgency are people "fighting for their country". He sounds like Michael Moore, characterizing terrorists as akin to the "minutemen" of the American Revolution.

Occupation? He considers our troops to be "occupiers" rather than "liberators"?

Gee, Dr. Dean is painting what our troops are doing in a very negative way; yet he claims to support them. It sounds like he supports the "local people" as much, if not more, than our troops.

In Dean's world, members of the U.S. military in Iraq are occupiers and the terrorists blowing up innocents are the locals fighting for their country.

He's sick.

MATTHEWS: Governor, back in build up to the war in Iraq, a lot of Americans got the wrong information. They were telling us in polling they thought it was Iraq that attacked us on 9/11 and did so much harm to this country, in Pennsylvania as well as in New York and in the Pentagon.

And more recently, I want to ask you this. Do you believe the president is still trying to perpetrate the — the notion that it was Iraq that attacked us on 9/11?

DEAN: Sure. I think the president made a terrible, terrible mistake in getting us into Iraq. And now we really have a big problem on our hands. We have a security problem that we didn't have before.

Now the president's trying to make this into a war on terrorism. It is a war on terrorism in the sense that there's certainly international terrorists in Iraq. The point is, there weren't any to speak of before we got there. The president made a big error in judgment, and he's now trying to combine what's going on in Iraq with the war on terrorism.

Again, Dr. Dean is either lying for political gain, or he's ignorant.

There weren't any terrorists in Iraq before we got there?

How can the guy say that with a straight face? How can Matthews let him get away with that?

DEAN: I thought the president looked foolish on the aircraft carrier. That was obviously a big mistake on his part, and they know that.

In recent American history, no one has looked more foolish than Dr. Dean did during his concession speech in Iowa. The SCREAM was so indelible and left such a lasting impression on the public that it will probably be mentioned in his obituary before it's noted that he was a doctor, governor, or DNC chairman.

These are just a few snippets of the inanity. I could go on, but I'm getting a headache.