[risk]

Mr. Buckley said he had taken some satisfaction in the triumph of conservatism since then, though he expressed some complaints about President Bush's unconservative spending and some retrospective doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq.

Of course this isn't supported with the actual quote and a source. I have my doubts.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Perhaps.

I suppose that you can take any person's brief comments and twist them out of context if you have a specific predetermined agenda in mind before writing a story.

Then again, there have been a lot of conservatives expressing reservations about Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I wouldn't pass judgment until I saw the full text of any sort of interview conducted by the NYT, including all of the quotations that were left on the cutting room floor.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Sure it is. They've put the quotes in the article. Besides Buckley's recent articles been lambasted on FR along with other great conservatives like Phylis Schlafly by the gibbering hordes of what-Bush-does-defines-conservative-so-stfu-theres-a-war-on-u-du-commie-rat-bastard crowd here.

[creepycrawly]

Of course this isn't supported with the actual quote and a source. I have my doubts.

You must have missed it: "With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago," Mr. Buckley said. "If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war."

Go back and read some of Buckley's archived articles on National Review's Web site.