Broken record

By Creature

Radical Islam. Radical Islam. Radical Islam. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra, is a broken record.

WOLF BLITZER: ...Mr. Chairman, I'll start with you. Your reaction to the Saddam Hussein guilty verdict? He's now slated to be executed.

PETER HOEKSTRA: Well, I think this is a very good step, but I put it in a much larger context, Wolf. This is another step forward in making sure that we defeat radical Islam and keep the homeland safe.

You know, we've been safe, now, for 5 1/2 years, no attacks in the United States. We've been on offense against Al Qaida and the Taliban. We removed them from power in Afghanistan. We removed Saddam from power in Iraq.

This is now one more step in building a safe and a more secure Iraq. And we've had other victories that people don't focus on. Moammar Gadhafi renounced radical Islam. He gave up his nuclear weapons program, packed it up, put it in crates and sent it to the United States.

And Algeria has eliminated the radical Islamic threat. This is just one more step in a very difficult and long process.

Plus five more radical Islams before the interview ended. Now, I may not be on the House Intelligence Committee, but I do know that Saddam Hussein had absolutely nothing to do with radical Islam. If anything Saddam and radical Islam were mortal enemies. For the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to couch the Saddam verdict in terms of radical Islam is not only disingenuous, it's an outright lie. Not that I expect much better from the congressman who cried WMDs.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)