Jeff Duncan: “in an interview published yesterday by the McClatchy newspaper chain, Dick Armey, our former Republican majority leader…”

“in an interview published yesterday by the McClatchy newspaper chain, Dick Armey, our former Republican majority leader, said he felt really bad about voting to go to war in Iraq. Mr. Armey said, ``Had I been more true to myself and the principles I believed in at the time, I would have openly opposed the whole adventure vocally and aggressively.'' It takes a big man to admit something like that. Chris Matthews on MSNBC on election night said, ``The decision to go to work in Iraq was not a conservative decision historically'' and said the President asked Republicans ``to behave like a different people than they intrinsically are.'' In 2004, William F. Buckley, Jr., often called the godfather of conservatism, wrote that if he knew in 2002 what he knew by 2004 he would have opposed going to war in Iraq. Today, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the subject of waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq.”