Richard Perle Libel Watch, Part Deux

Listeners to NPR this morning heard neoclown Richard Perle assert that Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said "Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein." (A paraphrase, looking for the exact quote.) The NPR reporter said that Zapatero had made no such claim, and I haven't been able to find such a statement on the internet so far. Zapatero said the war and occupation of Iraq are "a disaster," which of course is not the same thing.

Perhaps Perle will get his libel suit after all, only as a D rather than a P.