So, does that mean we can call them French Fries again??

   

This is particularly puzzling.  I love it when the war-hawks end up eating crow.

   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".

   Jones now claims that the name change was a "light-hearted gesture".  Bull.  What a crock.  Jones, like the daily pundits on Faux News, was particularly nasty in demanding and forcing through this change on a wave of nationalism.  It was pure hatred then and Jones knows it.

   As someone who opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning, I am happy to welcome anybody who has seen the light and demands answers and accountability into the unjust invasion.  However, there's something fishy about Jones' about-face.  And I think I've found the answer as to why it doesn't pass the smell test.
   Turns out that Jones' congressional district has the highest percentage of military personnel in the country.  Now that the public opinion has switched on the justification for the war, that the troops are complaining about inadequate armor, that the recruitng goals cannot be met and that more and more soldiers are seeing themselves as mere cannon fodder, Jones now finds himself in a new position....he's got to address that he voted to send his constituents into a war without a valid reason to do so.
   He was pandering to the troops when he cried about french fries, and he's pandering to the troops now as well.  I don't buy his new assessment at all.
   Here's what I need to see, and THEN I'll be willing to believe him.  Introduce two bills, Congressman Jones.  The first one calls for immediate troop withdrawal and/or accountability from the White House and Pentagon.  The second one calls for the name change BACK to french fries.
   Until then, I'm not buying it, Congressman.

Jeff Seemann

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Soldiers die fighting for democracy. And our Representatives are stuck in moral crisis about the name of some junk food.

No wonder voter turnout is so low.