Jeff Duncan: “Dick Armey, our former majority leader, said in an interview with a major newspaper chain last week that he deeply…”

“Dick Armey, our former majority leader, said in an interview with a major newspaper chain last week that he deeply regretted voting for the war in Iraq. Mr. Army said, ``Had I been more true to myself and the principles I believed in at the time, I would have openly opposed the adventure vocally and aggressively.'' Chris Matthews, on MSNBC on election night, said, ``The decision to go to war in Iraq was not a conservative decision historically.'' And he added that it ``asked Republicans to behave like a different people than they intrinsically are.'' William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote in 2004 that if he had known in 2002 what he knew then, he would have opposed the war. And in 2005 he wrote that to continue there beyond another year would indicate ``not steadfastness of purpose but, rather, misapplication of pride.'' What about this surge? The conservative columnist George Will wrote in opposition to it and said it would take a miracle for it to succeed. Very few people, Mr. Speaker, pushed harder for us to go to Iraq than the columnist, Charles Krauthammer. A few weeks ago he wrote that the Maliki government we have installed there cares only about making sure the Shiites dominate the Sunnis. ``We should not be surging troops in defense of such a government,'' Krauthammer wrote.”