AND ROHRBACHER IS A HARDCORE WINGER

This is a bit surprising, especially considering the harm it does to the GOP's "strong on defense" meme.

GOP congressmen: Everyone agrees Iraq war a ‘horrible mistake’
By Daniel Tencer
Friday, March 19th, 2010 -- 2:27 pm
The Raw Story

Reps. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA) made the comments at a discussion panel at the Cato Institute on Thursday.

Going into Iraq "was a mistake because I thought we had to finish the job in Afghanistan," Rohrbacher told the panel, echoing a popular Democratic talking point at the time.

"In retrospect, almost all of us think that was a horrible mistake," Rohrbacher said. "Now that we know that it cost a trillion dollars, and all of these years, and all of these lives, and all of this blood … all I can say is everyone I know thinks it was a mistake to go in now.”

Asked by panel moderator Grover Norquist what percentage of Republican congressmen agree with that view, McClintock said, “I think everyone [in Congress] would agree that Iraq was a mistake.”