He had to have meant Saddam. Even Dean isn't this stupid.
Bush makes that mistake and it would be endless front page news, fodder for Leno, Letterman and John Stuart. Dean makes it and will disapear down the memory hole.
MR. RUSSERT: Well, you said there were weapons of mass destruction.
DR. DEAN: I said I wasn't sure, but I said I thought there probably were. But the thing that really bothered me the most, which the 9-11 Commission said also wasn't true, is the insinuation that the president continues to make to this day that Osama bin Laden had something to do with supporting terrorists that attacked the United States. That is false.
I'm sure he'll spin it as having misspoke and claim he was talking about Saddam. But don't forget that during the campaign, Dean speculated that George Bush, and not Osama bin Laden, was behind the 9/11 attacks. Of course, he phrased it as "floating a theory."
Naturally, Russert didn't press this point.
Perhaps, but Dean made it very clear in his campaign that he would give Osama his day in court before he would judge him guilty.
If Glenn Beck really "threatened to kill Michael Moore," Dean really meant he didn't think Osama bin Laden was involved in 9/11.