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common sense from a republican representative?

A pro-Iraq war US congressman who campaigned for French fries to be renamed 'freedom fries' is now calling for US troops to return home from Iraq.
BBC NEWS: “Freedom fries” lawmaker’s U-turn
I have been expecting a shift in the sensibilities of the non neo-con contingent for some time. I think that the real republicans still have a conscience, and are more interested in America as a country than in empire building and adventurist military campaigns.

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