Springtime for Saddam

In Tuesday's US Senate confirmation hearing, Saint Condi of Palo Alto was pretty much getting the adoring treatment until Senator Barbara Boxer of California decided to play tough, and confront Condi with some of her past contradictory statements (time did not permit the Senator to bring up the more serious matter of Condi's utter incompetence). Condi, under pressure, then produced a new word to link Saddam and al Qaeda; not WMD, no imminent threats or smoking guns or contacts or training camps, but something much serious -- cavorting:

We knew that he [Saddam] was an implacable enemy of the United States, who did cavort with terrorists.

Now as often happens with this administration's spin, one has to head to the dictionary to see what precisely might be intended here:

ca·vort
To bound or prance about in a sprightly manner; caper.
To have lively or boisterous fun; romp: The children cavorted in the water, splashing and ducking each other.

Once again, a point we've made before: is there any difference between Dubya's image of evildoers and that of a typical James Bond/Austin Powers film?

UPDATE: Condi's usage also caught by Jon Stewart.