The rhetoric of Saddam Hussein is converging with that of the Democratic Party and the anti-war left, as he criticized President Bush as “the number one liar in the world.”

He is also accusing the U.S. of torturing him while in prison, although given how he and his former henchmen now define brutality, his idea of torture may simply consist of not having enough salt with his meals.

It’s too bad he wasn’t so sensitive to mistreatment while he was in power, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis might still be alive.