I'm not particularly wild about the source...

...but I love the story.

Insight Magazine offers this from Laurie Morrow of True North Radio in Burlington, VT.

"On Dec. 15, the satirical Website ScrappleFace.com posted a piece on the capture of Saddam Hussein entitled "Dean Demands Saddam's Release, Recapture by U.N." This opens with an invented quotation from Dean, opining that Saddam's capture "lacks legitimacy because it was a unilateral effort by American forces," and has Dean proposing that Saddam be released so that he can be recaptured "by a true multilateral coalition led by the United Nations." A good number of Vermonters I sent this to believed it was real, until I reminded them that the source was ScrappleFace.com, not Reuters..."

No, he didn't say it. But he might believe it.