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Thread ID: 18404 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-05-26
2005-05-26 04:28 | User Profile
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html?gusrc=rss[/url]
French fries protester regrets war jibe
Jamie Wilson in Washington Wednesday May 25, 2005
Guardian
It was a culinary rebuke that echoed around the world, heightening the sense of tension between Washington and Paris in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. But now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war.
Walter Jones, the Republican congressman for North Carolina who was also the brains behind french toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants, told a local newspaper the US went to war "with no justification".
Mr Jones, who in March 2003 circulated a letter demanding that the three cafeterias in the House of Representatives' office buildings ban the word french from menus, said it was meant as a "light-hearted gesture".
But the name change, still in force, made headlines around the world, both for what it said about US-French relations and its pettiness.
Now Mr Jones appears to agree. Asked by a reporter for the North Carolina News and Observer about the name-change campaign - an idea Mr Jones said at the time came to him by a combination of God's hand and a constituent's request - he replied: "I wish it had never happened."
Although he voted for the war, he has since become one of its most vociferous opponents on Capitol Hill, where the hallway outside his office is lined with photographs of the "faces of the fallen".
"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," he told the newspaper. "Congress must be told the truth."
2005-05-26 05:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler][url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html?gusrc=rss"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html?gusrc=rss[/url]
French fries protester regrets war jibe
Too late for him, he is already an idiot. Condemned by his own stupidity.
Is flogging still an option?
2005-05-26 14:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler][url] Mr Jones, who in March 2003 circulated a letter demanding that the three cafeterias in the House of Representatives' office buildings ban the word french from menus, said it was meant as a "light-hearted gesture".[/QUOTE]
That "light-hearted gesture", picked up willingly by the Jewish media, justified [I]Boobus Americanus'[/I] hatred towards our racial brethren in France....a great country that the Boobourgeois know nothing about and ignorant of where to even find it on a map. The hatred generated by that "light-hearted" comment was anything but light-hearted.
Let's see Mr Jones make "light-hearted" comments about the Jews and see if he still has a job the next day. Well, at the very least, Jones did publicly apologize for his remarks and regrets his war vote....lot more than the other criminals in DC would do.