Lest We Furr-get: The War Hero the Republicans Smeared

By Sniffles

It's ironic that the carping GOP Senator whom David von Drehle quotes in his TIME story about the killing of Osama bin Laden is Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.

You might be wondering why anyone would complain after bin Laden was nailed. Well, when President Obama addressed the American people on the night of May 1, he said: [S]hortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al-Qaeda."

This simple, factual sentence was too much for Chambliss. Apparently feeling that his pals in the Bush Administration — who diverted American resources into an unnecessary war in Iraq and who outed a covert CIA agent — were slighted by the President's statement, the Georgia Senator whined, "That's Obama politics."

Ready for the irony? Chambliss, of course. was elected in 2002 after Swift-Boating incumbent Democrat Max Cleland — a triple-amputee Viet Nam veteran — in an ad that used bin Laden's image to scare the bejesus out of voters.

So we cats say to the whining Georgian: Boo-hoo and suck it up, you despicable cretin. The shoe's on the other foot now. (And by the way, you're mighty lucky that you have feet on which to put that shoe. Max Cleland doesn't.)