Bush, labeled Iraq part of an “axis of evil” that was on the threshold of building a weapon that would end in an Iraqi “mushroom cloud” over America. The following year, in 2003, Bush dispatched nearly 200,000 U.S. troops into Iraq in search of nuclear, chemical and..…

But it was his stark reversal of his support for Bush's Iraq that Jones was most famous for, turnabout that marked the beginning of period increasingly outside House Republican mainstream... ..…

An early supporter of the war, Jones was generally credited with coining the term “freedom fries” and bringing them to House cafeterias, to protest France’s refusal to join the war effort In Iraq. ... Bush authorization for the war in 2002. . . But he soon regretted the vote and said..…