It has become a staple of Democrat politics to the point of achieving bloody shirt status: The mean, evil Republicans compared wounded Vietnam vet Sen. Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in a TV ad, thereby defeating him in 2002.

Bill Clinton serves up the latest iteration of that lie en route to defending Hillary’s debate gaffe for the umpteenth time.

When that scandalous Swift Boat ad was run against Senator Kerry. When there was an ad that defeated Max Cleland in Georgia, a man that left half his body in Vietnam. And a guy that led several departments … with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden because he dared to vote against the president’s version of the Homeland Security bill…

So Max Cleland said, I didn’t go to Vietnam and leave one arm and two legs to come home and hold my job by stripping the job rights of 170,000 good, hardworking Americans. I don’t want to do it. So they put an ad on comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Sweetness & Light has the ad. You can go watch it here. If that ad compares Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, I’ll eat my Hot Air hat with a side order of iPhone.

It does no such thing. Bill Clinton is, to the surprise of exactly no one on earth who’s been paying attention for the past 15 years, lying through his teeth.