Tom DeLay gets Busted for Hypocrisy after calling Harry Reid a Traitor. Why isn't this Guy in Jail Yet?

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Despite the criminal indictment, Tom DeLay is still running amok in the political world. Yesterday he accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of "getting very, very close to treason" for "announcing that we had lost the war" while soldiers are still "dying on the ground." Turns out he is a dirty, dirty hypocrite (thanks to the fine work of ThinkProgress).

During the 1999 U.S. campaign in Kosovo, DeLay had no qualms about calling the mission "a mistake." He went even further on the House floor:

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. . . . President Clinton has never explained to the American people why he was involving the US military in a civil war in a sovereign nation, other than to say it is for humanitarian reasons, a new military-foreign policy precedent. Was it worth it to stay in Vietnam to save face? What good has been accomplished so far? Absolutely nothing."

Replace "Clinton" with "Bush" and throw in something about WMDs and you've got a great critique for the current administration - precisely the same kind of critique Republicans are now blasting from Democrats.

If Reid is approaching treason for stating a true, objective fact, then DeLay is Benedict Arnold. Besides, the NATO bombing campaign lasted three months and achieved its objectives with minimal losses and wide support. That's a pretty far cry from the real "failed foreign policy" we have seen in Iraq for the last several years.

Again and again Republicans flip-flop in hopes that nobody will notice. Well not today, Tom DeLay!

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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