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To: stockman_scott who wrote (164368)	6/17/2005 6:46:07 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Republican 'freedomfries-hate-the-french' congressman says: PULL OUT OF IRAQ! ====That's another fracture in the Republican Party. They're even fracturing over paying dues to the UN LOL. "...You know Jones, too. If not his name, then certainly his Freedom Fries. He's the guy largely responsible for the rechristening of the House cafeteria fries, so angry was he a few years back that the French wouldn't get with the war program. But heartache has a way of changing a man's mind. And Jones, a man of deep Catholic faith, talks openly about listening to his heart. It's time now, Jones says, "to take a fresh look at where we are and where we are going," not to focus on the past, on those silly fries or even those serious and now unfounded stories about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Too many lives have been lost, too many people have been wounded. He spent much of yesterday quoting the numbers over and over -- 1,700 dead, 12,000 wounded...." ====http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601639.html?nav=hcmodule "I just believe that we have done as much as we can do in Iraq," he says, an intensity in his voice as he repeatedly outlined his argument about why he's broken ranks with his party. We've toppled Saddam Hussein, he says. We've put Iraq on the road to democracy. And we've trained its military. "What else should our goals be?" Calls from his constituents have been running about 50-50, says the congressman, who has three military bases in his district, including Camp Lejeune.