But after co-sponsoring a measure with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in June 2005 calling for a time-certain troop withdrawal from Iraq, Jones began taking heat from many of those same supporters. His U-turn on war policy attracted some unusual publicity for a press-shy conservative: an appearance on ABC News with Kucinich, long considered an anti-war bogeyman by the right, and a cover story in the liberal Mother Jones magazine.

Now, the consequences look more threatening. For the first time in more than a decade, Jones faces a serious primary challenger in Onslow County Commissioner Joe McLaughlin, a former Army Ranger, and their race will test how opposition to the Iraq war plays out in conservative and pro-military America.

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I am not a fan of the Iraq war and haven’t been since the day it started, but Jones is just wrong on this. Whether or not anyone agreed with it and regardless of how badly the Bush Administration has botched it, we invaded and that’s the way it is. To just pull out and leave the country in a less than stable conditions threatens of the lives of the people there who we were supposed to liberating.