After reading the headlines and rants of the day, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to flip on Stuffalupagous’ interviewing the “Freedom Fries” Congressman Walter Jones.  Another Republican, another administration apologist.  

WRONG.

Next week the Congressman will introduce legislation in the House calling for the administration to set a firm timetable for withdrawal of our troops from Iraq:

Jones confessed to his home newspaper in North Carolina that he opposes the war and he wished “it would have never happened.”

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The only print reference I can find thusfar is the editorial [quoted above and below] in the Kentucky Standard:

After hating and hating, Jones said he realized he had been misled.

“If we were given misinformation intentionally by people in this administration, to commit the authority to send boys, and in some instances girls, to go into Iraq, that is wrong,” he told the newspaper. “Congress must be told the truth.”

Two years into the war, the “misinformation” has killed almost 20,000 Iraqi civilians.

His Stufiness ran a clip of Jones in committee asking the administration to “apologize for misleading the American people.”  The man has impeccable conservative-right credentials.  He is also the only member of Congress to have sent over 1300 letters of condolence to families of those killed in Iraq.

Jone’s action may very well signal that “fundamental shift” in policy called for by (now) both sides of the aisle.  Underlying his introduction of the bill is his obviously strong feelings of betrayal.  Barely able to contain his emotions as he talked to Stephanapolous, visibly angry and filled with pain, it was obvious that this legislation will be “pursued vigorously” in the face of whatever opposition lies in the path.

Thank you Congressman Jones for your willingness to make this call.  For understanding the pain suffered by those who have lost a loved one in this unconscionable war, and for taking the one single action that may finally bring them home.