Not exactly "new" news, but Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina sure can't be endearing himself to the republican Chickenhawks at all.

"When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed -- it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded -- and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there," Jones said on ABC's "This Week."
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Jones, whose district includes Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point, has written condolence letters to the families of more than 1,300 service people killed in Iraq, and posters outside his congressional office show the faces of those killed.

Walter Jones is Karl Rove's worst nightmare come true: a pissed-off republican with a message Rove doesn't want getting out there. Having both Cheerless Pit and Lejeune in his district brings him into contact with the families and their Marines who are being sent off for a tour in the Codpiece Follies every day he's not in DC. At least he can look them in the eye and say "I'm sorry" like a man, something they'll likely respect and send him back to congress for...

His actions will bear watching over the next year or so to see if he's gonna survive the republican slander machine.