Regretting Freedom Fries

Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is probably best known for sponsoring the amendment that renamed the french fries in the House cafeteria "freedom fries." But although he was initially a strong supporter of the Iraq war, he has now turned against our interventions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He recently told his home town newspaper that he wishes the invasion of Iraq "had never happened," and he complained about the behavior of the Bush administration:

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. Congress must be told the truth.

He recently said,

I did not vote my conscience and I sent kids to die, and they didn’t have to go. I thank God that he made me feel guilty about my vote on Iraq.

Sometimes it seems to me that nobody in politics ever learns from anything, but it seems that Walter Jones has: in 2007 he introduced a bill that would require the President to get Congressional approval before attacking Iran.