Reading this piece about Republicans speaking out against Iraq was just too satisfying for words:
Representative Walter B. Jones of North Carolina opened the debate on Wednesday by reading a newspaper clipping from before Mr. Bush was elected. It was 1999, and the topic was a Congressional debate over military escalation in Bosnia, which Republicans sought to quash by sending a nonbinding resolution to President Clinton.
Holding a sheet of paper, Mr. Jones quoted Karen Hughes, a chief adviser to Mr. Bush, who declared, “If we’re going to commit more troops, we want to be sure they have a clear exit strategy.” The message, Mr. Jones argued, could apply to the current Iraq debate.
For a time on Wednesday, an unusual scene played out on the House floor, with some Republicans coming forward one by one to speak against the Iraq policy while fellow party members argued against them.
“We need to tell all these defense contractors that the time for this Iraqi gravy train, with their obscene profits, is over,” said Mr. Duncan, the congressman from Tennessee. “It is certainly no criticism of our troops to say that this was a very unnecessary war. This war went against every conservative position I have ever known.”
Yep, Pretty much. It’s just too bad it took them this long to come to this.
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Rep. Ric Keller (Fla.), a reliable conservative vote, prefaced his statement with an affirmation of support for Bush personally. But, he said, a “surge” of troops had already been attempted in Baghdad. “The benefits were temporary,” he said. “The body bags were permanent.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401576.html
I have no idea who Duncan is, but Walter Jones has been off the reservation for a couple of years now. by his own admission, he signed one too many condolence letters.
you may remember him as the freedom fries guy. he’s embarrassed by that now.
He’s a republican, so i could never support him 100% but I’ll give him credit for trying to fix his mistakes.