Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss this week joined a bipartisan coalition of senators who want Iraq to pay back the billions President Bush wants for reconstruction.

This is the same Chambliss who while running for the senate compared then-incumbent Georgia Senator Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

Why did Chambliss paint such a traitorous portrait of a man who lost an arm and two legs in Vietnam? Cleland voted to give labor rights to employees of the then-planned Homeland Security Department, which Chambliss somehow spun as opposition to national security.

Now that Chambliss is opposed to these rebuilding grants, I suspect he’ll soon compare himself to France because he clearly doesn’t support America’s efforts to turn Iraq into a democracy. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he hated democracy and spent hours a day dreaming of a communist regime. (See how easy it is?)