Ollie North talking to Tom Delay: One pardoned felon to a soon-to-be-pardoned felon, huh?
Anyway, here's the laughable truth about Tom Delay and his attempt to explain how he avoided wartime in Vietnam. Tom's still delirious from all of the pesticide enemas he gave himself down in Houston in the 1970's...which eventually led to him being banned from Sugarland Hot Tub Crowd due to his anal leaking problems.
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Excepts from Buzzflash and the Houston Press:
In 1988, a little-known Texas congressman gathered a crowd of reporters in the lobby of a downtown New Orleans hotel housing several state delegates to the Republican National Convention. Clutching a pole topped by a drooping American flag, 22nd District two-termer Tom DeLay launched into a rather implausible defense of Dan Quayle, an Indiana senator freshly picked by George Bush as his presidential ticket partner.
Bill Clinton's draft-dodging efforts would become an issue in his successful campaign against Bush four years later, but now Quayle's own past manipulation of family ties to get into a national guard unit was touching off a classic feeding frenzy among the convention press corps.
DeLay seemed to feel the issue applied personally to him, and perhaps it did. He had graduated from the University of Houston at the height of the Vietnam conflict in 1970, but chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than going off to battle against the Vietcong.
He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/2002/03/031102_Chickenhawk_Delay.htmlhttp://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-01-07/columns2.html/1/index.html