Thompson goes for the "La la la! I'm not listening!" vote

Fred Thompson is one of the whatever percentage of idiots we're down to now who still believes that Iraq was hiding WMD right up until the invasion.

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson said Monday he was certain former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a point of contention in the 41/2years since the war began.

"We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program," Thompson told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe.

About the best interpretation that can be given to this impossibly stupid statement is that "sometime prior" could mean 20 years prior.

And apparently, pressed for details, that's exactly the spin he leaned on:

Thompson later said he was referring Saddam’s attack on Kurdish northern Iraq with banned weapons in the 1980s.

"He acknowledged, I think, in filings made by the United Nations that prior to the invasion — sometime prior to the invasion — that he had chemical and biological weapons," Thompson said in a Des Moines Register interview. "I mean he used chemical weapons on the Kurds."

Yeah, Fred. They totally had WMD, and they spirited them out of the country on the eve of the war.

In golf carts.