Leave it our elected officials to say stupid things:

The relatively quick fall of Baghdad shows that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a "paper tiger" rather than a major threat to world peace, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said Thursday.

"What we were told and what you saw in the press last fall and earlier this year is that he had a massive war machine," said Harkin, the most outspoken critic of the war in Iraq among members of the Iowa congressional delegation.

"It looks now like this was just a Third World country - there were people fighting with tennis shoes on, on the Iraqi side," Harkin told reporters. "I don't know what else we're going to find, but they didn't fly even one airplane in the air. They had almost nothing.

Perhaps Mr. Harkin would like to tell the soldiers who were involved in firefights with these "paper tigers" that they were no threat. Maybe he can even tell the families of the dead and wounded that they were not so brave because the men they fought against wore tennis shoes and were third world.

And of course Nanci Pelosi (Idiotarian-CA) had this to say:

"I have absolutely no regret about my vote on this war," she told reporters at her weekly briefing yesterday, saying the same questions still remain: "The cost in human lives. The cost to our budget, probably $100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. The cost to our economy. But the most important question at this time, now that we're toward the end of it, is what is the cost to the war on terrorism?"

Are you saying, Rep. Pelosi, that we should not have used as many JDAMs and Tomahawks to soften up Iraqi resistance? That we should have just attacked them on the cheap? We might have suffered a thousand or more casualties, but the costs would have been under $50 billion.