The Illumination of Walter Jones

Who's Walter Jones? He's the GOP House Rep from North Carolina who brought us the happy horseshit involved in changing the name of french fries to "Freedom fries" and French toast to... well, you get the idea... when the French balked at joining the Coalition of the Blackmailed and Bullied in the leadup to the cooked Iraq War. You remember this. Bush jumped on board the bandwagon and insisted the name of all this food get changed in the Hill dining room and on Air Force One (even though Bush has at least one taxpayer-paid French executive chef on staff).

But Walkter Jones, along with much of the rest of the country, has become disillusioned with events far closer to home than gay Paree. In an interview this week, he had very strong words for the falsification of material to allow Mr. Bush to bulldoze and bomb his way through Baghdad, saying it was wrong, that Mr. Bush was wrong (and implying it was more than an error but an outright campaign of horse poop to deceive). Mr. Jones is not happy and regrets the whole "Freedom Fries" episode.

So why am I bringing this up? Because I was highly critical of Mr. Jones a few years ago. I'm sorry it took him so long to reach the same conclusions many of us came to well before we entered Iraq. But considering how many in Washington are afraid to say boo to a president who lies his way through everything, I commend Mr. Jones for speaking up.

See? I can say nice things about Republicans, especially when they cut down on their Koolaid consumption. ::grin::