“Because I did not do my job then, I helped kill 4,000 Americans, and I will go to my grave regretting that.”
— Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), quoted by the Raleigh News & Observer in 2015 on voting to authorize the Iraq war.
Jones died yesterday.
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