Birds of a Feather?

Who said this first?:

“the United States had suffered a defeat in Iraq and it was only a matter of time before it pulled out its troops.

“Iraq is a catastrophe for America and Americans will leave, it will only be a matter of time.

“I say to Bush: You entered Iraq with lies, you will lose Iraq and lie about it and you will leave with the pretext that you have completed your mission … America only has to decide on the number of (troops) it wishes to lose before withdrawing.”

Looks like Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, beat Howard Dean to this conclusion by several months.

How embarrassing (and shameful, for that matter) for the the head of THE Democratic party to parrot the words of an arch terrorist? Several prominent Democrats have openly rebuked Dean’s comments, worried that he’s killing opportunities for them. They’re right. There is plenty of room to make reasonable criticisms of the war effort and he just thermobarically detonated their dais.

Assuming such a political statement was planned days if not weeks in advance, and knowing that such obvious comparisons would be drawn between his words and those of an Al Qaeda kingpin, can we rule out the possibility of his speechwriters simply failed to do adequate research? What other reasoned opinions does the DNC Chair share with other powerful forces? This does not bode well for disciplined debate.