Now keep in mind, this is the genius who brought "freedom" fries to the Capital, introduced a bill allowing preachers the right to endorse political candidates without losing their church's tax exempt status. In general those of us in NC consider him one of the true wing-nuts. His district encompasses all the major military instalations in eastern NC (Lejeune, Cherry Point, Bragg) and until today has been known for the inability to think anything resembling a progressive thought. Now please don't misunderstand me, I don't suggest that we sing hymns of praise for him, but rather this is but another symptom of a lame duck president. So without further ado, from
Newsday.com
GOP Congressman Wants Troops Out of Iraq
By Associated Press
June 12, 2005, 4:39 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A Republican congressman who voted for the Iraq war said Sunday that "we've done about as much as we can do" in the country and that the reason for invading Iraq has proven false.
Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina will be among the lawmakers introducing legislation this week calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops in Iraq. "When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed -- it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded -- and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there," Jones said on ABC's "This Week."
President Bush has said any timetable for withdrawal would encourage insurgents to wait for the foreign troops to leave, but Jones said he believed Iraqis can defend their own country.
His stance leaves Jones sided with Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, the most prominent Democrat calling for a timetable to leave Iraq. Jones said he had not discussed the issue with Kennedy.
Two years ago, Jones helped lead an effort to make sure Capitol Hill cafeterias retooled their menus to advertise "freedom fries" instead of french fries to protest France's opposition to the war.
Jones said he began changing his mind about the war after attending the funeral in April 2003 for Sgt. Michael Bitz, 31, who was killed in the southern city of Nasiriyah. He recalled that Bitz's widow read the last letter she received from her husband.
"And that really has been on my mind and my heart ever since," he said.
Jones, whose district includes Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point, has written condolence letters to the families of more than 1,300 service people killed in Iraq, and posters outside his congressional office show the faces of those killed.
Seems pretty resonable to me, you know we can't seem to fill our recruitment goals. An overwhelming majority of Americans want to get out of Iraq. I wonder what our friends in freeper land have to say about this...
From the best and brightest of Freeper Land
dupe
Just like Vietnam the left-wing fascist anti-American cowards are starting to show their true colors. They must have made a pact with the terrorist so that they will not attack them when they are free to take over the middle east and attack us in our homeland. (I love it when they're too ignorant to do any research and just instinctively attack their own)
Sure, lets just announce the date that we will bail out... that'll sure defeat those terrorists !
This is just exposing how many politicians are mental midgets. How many are so plain stupid as to be out manuvered by reporters?
How many are just being patsies for their cocktail, inside the beltway friends on the other side of the isle?
Seriously if you ever meet politicians in real life you realize how intellectually challenge some of them really are.
Sometimes a trip to freeper land is worth it, huh go figure.