[kellynla]

Imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved had someone been able to put a bullet in Hiter & Stalin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pat rewrites history again. Britain didn’t lose her empire because of the world war.

[dirtboy]

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

Tell me Pat didn't write that.

[dirtboy]

That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is undeniable. "Mein Kampf" is saturated in anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws confirm it. But for the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust, and for two years after the war began, there was no Holocaust.

Gee, Krystalnacht was just Western propaganda, I guess.

[Past Your Eyes]

Thanks, Pat. You have reinforced my opinion of you. I’m so glad I never joined your Brigade.

[devane617]

Pat needs to be down on the farm with Ross.

[stuartcr]

Must have been, or God wouldn’t have knowingly created those responsible.

[dirtboy]

Christopher, Hitler invaded Russia on June 22.

Napoleon started his invasion of Russia in June as well. The historical lesson was there for Hitler. PAT, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

[1rudeboy]

Patrick J. Buchanan—Pseudo-Historian, Very Real Dissimulator [Free Republic]

Victor Davis Hanson eats Buchanan's book for a snack.

[wideawake]

This column is appalling for two reasons:

(1) The utter incompetence of its historical analysis.

(2) The dark moral worldview that would support such an analysis.

[allmendream]

Hitler was so committed to the Holocaust that he wouldn't allow trains that were needed for the war effort be diverted from delivering his victims to the gas chamber.

Pat Pukecannon makes me sick.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Scratch Buchanan and the ghost of Heinrich Himmler pops out.

[Catholic Canadian]

This is ridiculous.

[vimto]

“Imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved had someone been able to put a bullet in Hitler & Stalin”.

Well some good people did try and failed.

As a Brit I am very proud of Winston Churchill and I think this Pat guy is talking out of his.......well, hat!

War is entered into not only when a nation's fabric is at risk but also when her soul is. What kind of Britiain would be one that walked away from Europe with an ‘i’m all right Jack attitude’?

I have thanks God for Churchill so many times for preserving my freedom and the nations integrity.

Having said that Nu-labour have squandered the inheritance.

Also I seem to remember us Brits voting none other than John Lennon as man of the Millennium. What a sense of priorities. Ho hum...

[KingSnorky]

Pat just gets creepier and creepier.

[MEGoody]

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

What a loon.

[Nonstatist]

And why did Hitler invade Russia? This writer quotes Hitler 10 times as saying that only by knocking out Russia could he convince Britain it could not win and must end the war.

???Huh?.What about Mein Kampf?... Buchanan is an out and out crank, no doubt about it.

[Biblebelter]

I felt better when Pat was over on MSNBC where he pretty much had the same position on Iraq as the lesbian cow Rachel Maddow. I saw Pat on Hannity and Colmes the other night as evidently he has started appear on Fox. Hannity was slobbering all over Pat in such a way, that for a moment I thought Julie Annie had returned from the anonymity of the Republican Party Witness Protection Program.

[Nachum]

Wow Pat, by your logic WW I wasn’t necessary either. Matter of fact, the American civil war could have been avoided all together if General Lee and Grant had just sat down to tea.

[agere_contra]

If Hitler were out to conquer the world, why did he not build a great fleet? Why did he not demand the French fleet when France surrendered?

Because the Royal Navy sank it in harbour. Seriously, does Pat not know this?

[wideawake]

Not until midwinter 1942 was the Wannsee Conference held, where the Final Solution was on the table.

In September 1935, on the occasion of the passing of the first of the Nuremberg laws, Hitler gave a speech.

In the speech he said that if Germany's "Jewish problem" could not be solved by these new laws, then the matter needed to be delegated to the Nazi Party itself so that the Party could engineer an "Endloesung" - a final solution.

The Final Solution was thus publicly on the table almost seven years before the Wannsee Conference.