Jeff Duncan: “George Will, the conservative columnist wrote in opposition to this surge and said it would take a miracle for the surge…”

“George Will, the conservative columnist wrote in opposition to this surge and said it would take a miracle for the surge to succeed. Dick Armey, our former majority leader, in an interview with a major newspaper chain said just a few days ago that he deeply regretted voting to go to war in Iraq, and 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.' William F. Buckley, Jr., often called the godfather of conservatism, wrote in 2004 that if he had known in 2002 what he knew in 2004 he would have opposed the war. Chris Matthews on Election Night said, 'The decision to go to war in Iraq was not a conservative decision historically,' and he said it asked Republicans, 'to behave like a different people than they intrinsically are.' And that confirmed what I have said many times on this floor, that the war in Iraq went against every traditional conservative position I have ever known. I would like to read into the Record at this time a column that I wrote for the Nashville Tennessean, Tennessee's largest circulation daily. I wrote this. 'I voted against going to war in Iraq when Congress voted on this in October of 2002. And I am opposed to sending more U.S. troops there now.'”