Just noted in passing

Time does have a way of marching on. Via Raw Story, we learn that the Guardian (UK) reports today that Rep. Walter Jones, the man behind the move to change french fries and french toast to "freedom" fries and toast in Congressional cafeterias says

it was meant as a "light-hearted gesture".

But the name change, still in force, made headlines around the world, both for what it said about US-French relations and its pettiness.

Now Mr Jones appears to agree. Asked by a reporter for the North Carolina News and Observer about the name-change campaign - an idea Mr Jones said at the time came to him by a combination of God's hand and a constituent's request - he replied: "I wish it had never happened."

What's more, Jones, who voted for the war, is now a strong opponent who had lined the hallway outside his office with pictures of the "faces of the fallen".

"If we were given misinformation intentionally by people in this administration, to commit the authority to send boys, and in some instances girls, to go into Iraq, that is wrong," he told the newspaper. "Congress must be told the truth."

Well, I suppose I shouldn't say we told you so, Mr. Jones, but we told you so - repeatedly. But welcome anyway.