Pat Buchanan: Iraq is 'the Republicans' War'

[quaoar]

It's fascinating how Buchanan can be so right about the war and so wrong about everything else.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44926

A U.S. strategic defeat in Iraq would have a traumatic effect on every ally in the Islamic world and would energize and embolden radicals and terrorists from Morocco to Mindanao to attack the remaining friends of this country and American interests across the Third World.

At home, loss of Iraq would make Bush a failed president and ignite a quarrel as contentious and ugly as the "Who-Lost-China?" argument of the Truman-McCarthy era and the Vietnam debates of the Johnson and Nixon years, both of which poisoned our national politics for decades.

Because he knows a failure in Iraq would be a disaster for U.S. Middle East policy and a fatal blow to his place in history, Bush is not going to lose this war. Which means that, even in the absence of visible progress in eradicating the insurgency, he will not withdraw U.S. troops, even should his party suffer serious reversals in 2006, with the war's unpopularity the central issue.

Back in 1976, vice presidential nominee Bob Dole referred to World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam as "Democrat wars." Well, Iraq is "The Republicans' War." And as Democrats hold neither Congress nor the White House, they can support the war and the troops, while questioning the policy and the leadership. It is the Nixon option of 1968.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. This great yet weird to hear, Repubs seeing the light I hope ....

:kick:

[Jersey Ginny]

2. Buchanan has always been against this war

He even endorsed Kerry for president. He is first and foremost an isolationist. I happens that we are in agreement on this one issue.

[karynnj]

4. Are you sure he endorsed Kerry?

He hated the Iraq war. But he was no friend of Kerry's. His Nixon days made him back the SBVT over Kerry.

[The Crazy Canadian]

6. He endorsed Bush for President.

I read The American Conservative and i do remember him supporting Bush.

[clydefrand]

3. I finally see him make a statement that is not a lie.

[Oversea Visitor]

5. He is laying the

blame clearly strongly and he is licking his lip and very hungry
Me think he waiting to bite some people head

[kster]

7. The Trojan horse

marching across America delivering Diebold and ES&S machines, I don't see them suffering any serious reversals in 2006.The Dem's and honest Republicans not doing a damn thing about it. And them voting machines work both ways. Dem or Repug can be voted in or out. Good luck to both the Dem's And the Repugs.