Paul Begala actually said...

"I think it has been maybe the most scurrilous and dishonest thing that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have done, to try to conflate 9/11 and the war in Iraq."

"There's 1,003 young Americans who are dead now because the president thought there was a threat there and told them to go and fight a war there, which we didn't have to fight."

"Kerry's critique that has been consistent is, the war in Iraq shouldn't blow up our deficit. We should pay for this war rather than cut things like housing, healthcare, education, or increase the defi..."

"The truth is, if people like me had had our way, it's true, Saddam would have been in office. But he was never a threat to America."