Still Lying After All These Years

Ari Fleischer on Hardball with Chris Matthews:

…I believe this still today, and of course you and I disagree with it, but after September 11th, having been hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam might not strike again? And that’s the threat that has been removed, and I think we’re all safer with that threat removed.

Is Fleischer lying or simply ignorant?