Bush Is Running Out of Alibis [Buchanan]

Human Events Online ^ | Friday, February 3, 2006 | Pat Buchanan

[wrathof59]

I didn't even know my good friend Pat was still alive.

[NavVet]

I'd rather listen to Cindy Sheehan than hear more of Buchanan's crazy rants.

[Dog Gone]

Pat Buchanan has become such a nutbag that his message is no different than that other nutbag, Jimmy Carter.

They say the same garbage.

[Big Giant Head]

I didn't know he was a Dem.

[Steamburg]

Why do you suppose he is shouting this loud? Poor old dude hasn't had a rational thought for some time.

[1rudeboy]

Go Pat Go! [hoot]

[Clintonfatigued]

Recently, Buchanan advocated foreign aid to the newly elected Hamas. His credibility is gone. I'm surprised there are still people who publish him.

[NewLand]

Hey Pat...you are a...

[Starve The Beast]

Why would a president use his State of the Union to lash out at a school of foreign policy thought that has had zero influence in his administration?

They do influence his administration, Pat. So does the Workers World Party, through front groups like Not In Our Name, International ANSWER, and The World Can't Wait. Everybody with a loud voice, or a lot of money, who's as dedicated to a antique, discredited political philosophy as you are is a real problem for the people whose job it is to solve the troubles of the real world.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Go Pat Go Away!

[Stepan12]

Recently, Buchanan advocated foreign aid to the newly elected Hamas. His credibility is gone. I'm surprised there are still people who publish him

He's not an isolationist; he's just an anti-Semite. If he were an isolationists he would've opposed foreign aid to Hamas and not called for America to restrain Israel as regards Iraq. He believes in an interventionist foreign policy as long as the policy hurts or destroys the Jewish state.

[auboy]

Posted yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570720/posts

[1rudeboy]

But it was protectionists from Lincoln to Coolidge who gave us the highest standard of living on earth.

This kind of crap really ticks me off. If Pat supported his claim, people on both sides of the issue could have a reasonable discussion about the criteria for standard of living comparisons, and maybe learned from each other about what must be different methods in their calculation.

Instead, we will now have this "slogan" (there really is no better term for it) repeated endlessly as fact.

[Stepan12]

Go Pat Go!

[festus]

pat is the dennis kucinich of the right.

[jpf]

What's Pat complaining about? Isolationism and protectionism ARE his bag. It's not a caricature, look in the mirror Pat.

[ozzymandus]

Pat and mother cindy should get married and honeymoon in a ditch outside Bush's ranch. They're both Bush-hating irrational nut-jobs. Oh, did I forget to mention their anti-semitism?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

This blowhard does not even know US History!

"And like Truman's war in Korea and Kennedy's war in Vietnam"

26 Sep 1945 - The first death of an American serviceman in Vietnam occurred.
OSS (Office of Special Operations) Major (Lieutenant Colonel) A. Peter Dewey
was killed in action by the Communist Vietminh near Hanoi.
May 1950 President Harry S Truman authorised $10 million in aid to the French for their war in Viet Nam.
By January 1951, $150 million had been given in aid.
1953-61 Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President
1953-61 Richard M. Nixon Vice President
1953 - The US is supporting the French in the amount of $1 billion per year--
33% of all US foreign aid--which is 80% of the total cost to the
. US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles (under Eisenhower) first voices the 'Domino Theory':
if one country in Southeast Asia falls to the Communists, they will all fall, one by one.

12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army

8 Jun 56 - The first American of record to die in Vietnam
under the Eisenhower and Nixon administration
was Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
His son, Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, died in Vietnam Sep 7, 1965.
8 Jun 56 Has been formally recognized by the Pentagon as the first American officially to die in that war.

5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina" 1956 The US believed in that Ho Chi Minh would have won any election held in Viet Nam and used their influence over the government of the State of Viet Nam to ensure that the election was not held



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About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

[Soaring Feather]

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