Mark Green, meet Walter Jones

I was going to write about this, but Wonkette saved me the trouble with this post:

US Troops Are Freedom Toast

Walter Jones, the North Carolina congressman who gave late-night monologists and Francophobes the gift of "freedom fries and "freedom toast," is now calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. On This Week, he said that he looks at the number of troops lost and wounded and "I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there." The administration has, of course, nixed the idea of a schedule for bringing the our forces back. Ironically, if Jones were less adverse to European nomenclature, he might be able to use his re-branding acumen to help the administration out of this PR nightmare. Over there, a "troop withdrawal" is also known as a "French victory."

ON THE OTHER HAND. . . Meanwhile, Wisconsin Congressman Mark Green, the man who would be governor, issued a column about how great things are going in Iraq. "From Baghdad to Falluja, from U.S. troops to Iraq's new security force, signs of progress abound," Green says. His column is titled, "Signs of progress spring forth in Iraq."