The Worst and the Dumbest

Rudy “I Just Make This Shit Up” Giuliani, as reported at Crooks and Liars:

“[I]f we flee Iraq, if we do what the Democrats want us to do – which is to not only flee Iraq, not only retreat in Iraq, but give them a timetable of our retreat.

“Have you ever heard of that in a history of war?”

Well, yes, that’s exactly what the U.S. did in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, AP relying on the Watergate tapes via Hullabaloo:

“Oh s—, that kid,” Nixon said when told by his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, of [Fred] Thompson’s appointment on Feb. 22, 1973.

“Well, we’re stuck with him,” Haldeman said.
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Nixon expressed concern that Thompson was not “very smart.”

“Not extremely so,” Buzhardt agreed.

“But he’s friendly,” Nixon said.