"They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context," he added, "even making them up."

Durbin's quotes, however, didn't appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Unfazed by his error, Leahy blasted the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, suggesting that the U.S. had done just as much damage to Iraq as Saddam Hussein.

Reminded of the Iraqi lives that have been saved since Saddam's fall, Leahy shot back - "We could also think of the tens of thousands of Iraqi lives that have been lost since the fall of Hussein."

Editor's note:
Get the USS Ronald Reagan Cap FREE – Click Here Now
Michael Reagan Reveals His Father’s Secrets
Illegal immigration threatens our security and tears at the fiber of America – Click Here!

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

DNC
War on Terrorism