DEAN’S GAFFE

Here’s a quote of his from Hardball:

Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.

The Soviet Union?? Not just once but three times? If Dubya had said this, all hell would have broken loose. It’s an astonishing lapse – and the incoherent grammar only adds to the impression of rank amateurism. Yes, I know Dean means Russia. But anyone who cannot distinguish between Russia and the Soviet Union has no business running for president of the United States.