What a self-serving a-hole!
Of course Buchanan is opposed to the war in Iraq. It might have been good for the Jews.
Well, this book should get Buchanan helpful bookings on the Daily Show, Good Morning America, Larry King, Air America, Hardball, McNeil News Hour, and 60 Minutes, and relatively warm receptions in the New York and Los Angeles Times Book Reviews. And prominent placement on the front shelves at bookstores around the country. Congrats, Pat! You are cashing in on the Bush-bashing media gravy train.
Once this traitor aligned himself with Leonora Fulani, the avowed communist and proud anti semite he lost ALL credibility.
Who cares? Nobody pays any attention to Pat anymore, except for his brain-dead Pitchforkers. Ride to the sound of those guns, Brigadiers! ROFL!
GO AWAY, PAT, GO!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196710/posts?page=41#24
At this point, this can only help Bush. It'll be what the lame-o pundits call "a Sister Souljah" moment.
Does Buchanan have a following any more?
"One more time, the anti-semite tries to take down a Republican president."
Couldn't say it better! When are people going to wake up to who Buchannan really is?
Pat fires the first shot of his third party campaign for 2008 (the only way Hillary can be elected).
They're both just bloated human truffle hogs out for themselves.
Not many reviews out there yet, sports fans..
This one from Amazon is obviously biased, but still interesting:
Reviewer: R. Hutchinson
Pat Buchanan takes aim at Bush/Cheney and the neoconservatives, and he has them dead to rights. The so-called "preemptive doctrine" is really PREVENTIVE -- Iraq did not pose an imminent threat, so the invasion and occupation was aggressive, not defensive.
It could only be justified as action to prevent a threat sometime in the future -- the "Minority Report" doctrine. This is obviously an incredibly dangerous doctrine which can just as easily be used by anyone who wants to attack the U.S. The open-ended counterinsurgency war has made the U.S. LESS secure, not more secure.
Buchanan draws on the policy of the Founding Fathers of avoiding entangling alliances to bolster his opposition. He makes the same point as "Anonymous" ("Imperial Hubris") in saying that it is childish for Bush to say the Islamic radicals "hate our freedom" -- obviously they hate our policies of supporting corrupt oil regimes, blindly backing Israel, and stationing troops on sacred Saudi soil, among others.
Buchanan also makes an important point that China, the rising power, has to be central to U.S. policy, as the U.S. is the declining power.
Neither "terrorism", which is a tactic, not an enemy, nor Islamic fundamentalism, has the capacity to threaten U.S. vital interests in the way an ascendant China will have in the years to come. As Zbigniew Brzezinski has pointed out (see his "The Choice" and my review), the Bush/Cheney administration's "war on terrorism" propaganda is simplistic and hysterical.
Beyond that, Buchanan the socially conservative Catholic tacks on the predictable call for a White Straight Christian Nation, discussing Mexican immigration at some length. I don't support this in the slightest, but as his main focus is a well-argued, forceful critique of the Bush Doctrine and the invasion of Iraq, I'm only docking Pat one star. See sociologist Doug Massey's "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors" for an excellent analysis of our dysfunctional immigration policy vis a vis Mexico and how to fix it.
Pat Buchanan is true to the old conservative position of isolationism, the traditional Republican position from before the so-called "Cold War."
I respect him for it, and I wish more Republicans today would adopt such a position instead of the wrong-headed quasi-Wilsonian crusade of the neoconservatives who vainly imagine they can use military force to make the "whole world one big American town" in the words of the Randy Newman song
some people never grow up!
you don't get everything you want in politics, only some things.
and, you may even get what you don't want, if a bitch like buchanan, has his way:
you get comrade kerry! (/s)
If conservatives voted on who ceased to be a conservative, Buchanan would win over Bush any day.
Self-serving asshole? Or just a guy who is out to make a buck on a book advance?
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It will be pretty hard for Buchanan to top his 1992 speech to the GOP convention.
I wish the self-absorbed blow hard would just take a retirement. Not many give a rats "arse" what he thinks anyway. Those who do sure don't think like I do.
Well, that leaves out Pat Buchanan.
I hate it when failed shark jumpers keep wasting our time. Shouldn't Buchanan be out burning synagogues or torturing kittens or something?
With 57,000 dead Americans in Vietnam, contrasted with less than a thousand in Iraq, anyone who would utter the above statement is simply a fool.