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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:22 PM
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From one right winger to other greedy, right wing fear peddling lunatics.
Edited on Tue Mar-02-04 05:06 PM by Zinfandel
In ridiculing Richard Perle and David Frum's assertion that our war caravan's next stop must be Iran, Buchanan asks:

"Where in the Constitution is the president empowered to "toss dictators aside"? And if it took 150,000 U.S. soldiers to toss Saddam aside, how many troops do Frum and Perle think it will take to occupy the capital of a nation three times as large and populous and toss the ayatollah aside? How many dead and wounded would our war hawks consider an acceptable price for being rid of the mullahs?"


Buchanan also goes on to say...

"Fear is what Perle and his co-author David Frum are peddling to stampede America into serial wars. Just such fear-mongering got us into Iraq, though, we have since discovered, Iraq had no hand in 9/11, no ties to al-Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, no nuclear program, and no plans to attack us. Iraq was never "the clear and present danger" the authors insist she was.


The war Netanyahu and the neo cons want, with the United States and Israel fighting all of the radical Islamic states, is the war bin Laden wants, the war his murderers hoped to ignite when they sent those airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

If America wishes truly to be isolated, it will follow the neoconservative line."


This is an excellent article on today's DU front page.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/03/02_right.html

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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:36 PM
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1. I love it!
Try this scenario on for size:

Imagine Hardball with Chris Mathews His guests are Pat Buchanan, Peggy Noonan (a regular anyway) Richard Pearle and William F. Buckley.

The topic: The battle for the Heart of the Republican Party!

I'd invite friends and get lots of popcorn for that one. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Tweety and every cable talking head spent hours and hours discussing the "crisis in the Republican party"?

Our Congressman, Dave Obey said at a local gathering last fall that the biggest thing the Repubs are trying to hide is just how divided the party has become. Being good Repubs, however, they all fell in line. But maybe this is about to end.
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:44 PM
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2. I like your line up...but I'd also toss in the pigman, he wouldn't know
whom to drop his his pants and bend over for...I take that back, Limbaugh would bend over for all of them (including Noonan) and love every second of it!!!:puke:
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pacifictiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:45 PM
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3. I may not agree
with some of the positions Pat Buchanan espouses, but at least he sticks to the tenants of the original republican party, and appears to have the best intentions for this republic at heart. Too bad more with old time values are not speaking up and denouncing these power hungry crooks.
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eissa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 05:05 PM
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4. I've said it before
Pat is REALLY surprising me lately. Where the hell are our democrats? THEY should be writing this. Although it feels better when it's one of their own throwing the stones. He really seems to have it in for the bush men -- first poppy and now shrub. I'd love to know the behind-the-scenes story on this one.
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Gopens Donating Member (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 06:30 PM
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5. My god, I always feel so guilty ...
... when I agree with a right-wing hatemonger.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 12:02 AM
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6. it's so damn bizarre to be rooting for Pat Buchanan
I always HATED that guy.

Now he's the voice of truth and reason.

Go figure. That's how bad the neocons are, that Pat Buchanan looks like Moses!
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