NPR: GOP Rep. Walter Jones, Who Spent Years Seeking Redemption For Iraq Vote, Dies At 76
Jones helped add “freedom fries” to the Congressional cafeteria menu. Since then, he came to deeply regret his vote for the war in Iraq, and wrote thousands of letters to families of fallen soldiers.
“I did not do what I should have done to read and find out whether Bush was telling us the truth,” Jones admitted in 2015. “Because I did not do my job then, I helped kill 4,000 Americans, and I will go to my grave regretting that.”
