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To: moonshot925

Buchanan:

In a 1990 column for the New York Post, Buchanan defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”
Buchanan actually said Hitler was an individual of “great courage.” That’s just one of the quotes that the Anti-Defamation League attributes to Buchanan in their compendium of offensive remarks from Buchanan over the years. In 1977, he qualified his labeling of Hitler as racist and anti-semitic by adding that “he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him[…]His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”


47 posted on 07/27/2012 8:04:10 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Linda Frances

Buchanan also thinks Pearl Harbor was our fault for screwing over the poor Japanese.


50 posted on 07/27/2012 8:10:25 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Linda Frances

You have to provide Buchanan’s real words, not what people said he said or what they think he said.

Seriously, liberals call conservatives these names all the time. Why are you doing the same?


91 posted on 07/27/2012 9:50:52 PM PDT by donna ("...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way..." -Mitt Romney)
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