No, this is not our war: Buchanan barf alert

World net daily ^ | July 22, 2006 | Patrick Buchanan

[Mr Rogers]

My guess - both.

[samtheman]

None of this is written in defense of Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran.

No, it's written out of anti-Semitic hate. The defence of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran is collateral.

[John Lenin]

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	Running Mate's Electoral Vote
			Count	Percentage
George W. Bush	Republican	Texas	50,460,110	47.9%	271	Dick Cheney	Wyoming	271
Al Gore	Democratic	Tennessee	51,003,926	48.4%	266	Joe Lieberman	Connecticut	266
(abstention) (a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	1	(abstention) (a)	(n/a)	1
Ralph Nader	Green	Connecticut	2,883,105	2.7%	0	Winona LaDuke	Minnesota	0
Pat Buchanan	Reform	Virginia	449,225	0.4%	0	Ezola B. Foster	California	0
Harry Browne	Libertarian	Tennessee	384,516	0.4%	0	Art Olivier	California	0
Howard Phillips	Constitution	Virginia	98,022	0.1%	0	Curtis Frazier	Missouri	0
John Hagelin	Natural Law/Reform	Iowa	83,702	0.1%	0	Nat Goldhaber	California	0
Ross Perot	Write-in	Texas	9	0.0%	0	None	N/A	0
Other(b)			54,652	0.1%	0	Other(b)		0
Total			105,417,258	100.0%	538	Total		538
Needed to win					270	Needed to win		270

[voiceinthewind]

On an interview on Scarborough Country, Buchanan said "What has Hezbollah and Hamas done to the United States of America? "
As FReeper Enchante pointed out, they've done quite a bit.

[ChessExpert]

Wasn't it Lebanon's responsibility to keep Hezbollah and other militant Islamists under control?

(correction on post 14: should have read "or Judaism.")

[inkling]

Not our war? Sorry, but Pat has already joined the war. Too bad he's fighting for the Islamofascists.

[Republican Wildcat]

Looks like Buchanan has gone over to the dark side.

That was a long time ago.

[Republican Wildcat]

Buchanan has been writing and saying things like this for many years now. Why does it surprise you when he just does the same again he's been doing?

[Honestfreedom]

Buchanan has been on the dark side for a long time. However, he does serve a purpose. Israelis thought their unilateral surrender and appeasement in Gaza and Lebanon would win them kudos from scum like Buchanan. Yet when they are attacked and respond it is still the same old bs about Israeli aggression. Buchanan is as low as they come.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"It is perfectly acceptable to have Hezbollah turn southern Lebanon into a firebase from which to lob hundreds of rockets into Israel but it is not acceptable for Israel to attack Hezbollah because Hezbollah is in Lebanon?Pat, you are either a demagogue or an idiot."

I am sorry for the Lebanese people but it seems to be turning out that they are harboring terrorists. They evidently are on the terrorists side now that the shooting has started in earnest. So there it is. It's war. The terrorists are deliberately firing on Jewish civilians. Let the Lebanese people chew on that for a while.

News flash to the civilian Lebanese: Hezbolla is trying to kill civilian Jews!!! They don't want to die any more than you do. What are they supposed to do? Die so you can live. Why don't you die so they can live!!

[fish hawk]

Buchanan has ALWAYS been on the dark side. He just fooled some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. Too think, I actually , at one time, respected this idiot.

[dfwgator]

Further proof that Nazis and Islamo-Fascists are natural allies.

[Always A Marine]

What is he smoking? I give up, I don't understand so-called conservatives like Buchanan and Sobran.

William F. Buckley, Jr. was right a long time ago about both Buchanan and Sobran. I was skeptical at first, but I have noticed an undeniable trend since his public break with Pat and Joe. Listen to them long enough -- on any topic -- and the conversation inevitably comes around to the Jooos. Jooos who control Bush. Jooos who control US foreign policy. Jooos who control all the money. Jooos who control this and that. It is the same with their followers. If they were right, the all-powerful Jooos wouldn't be fighting for their homeland.

The first signal these people emit is heavy use of the words "neoconservative" or the more derisive "neocon," which are codewords for Jooo. They have learned to target token gentiles and to ally with a handful of self-loathing Jews for cover, but the objects of their venom are overwhelmingly Jooos. In the world of Buchanan and Sobran, America would have had no beef with Hitler. His latest argument that we have no argument with Hizb'Allah fits the same pattern. Pat Buchanan is consumed by his hatred of Jews.

Pat Buchanan's behavior is disreputable, and he should be shunned by polite society.

[VRWCtaz]

"I don't understand so-called conservatives like Buchanan"

Once you realize that Pat is an egotistical isolationist bigot then you begin to understand Buchanan.

[burroak]

Buchanan is a cottage industry now.

The left mediia use him in tandem with a liberal for balance. Doesn't work. The media know it's getting a twofer.

[steadfastconservative]

I think you are right about Buchanan having too narrow a conception on religion. But I am also beginning to think that he really is anti-Semitic. I used to like Buchanan. I even voted for him in the primaries in 1992. But he's really changed. It's a shame.

[ChessExpert]

You nailed it. Yes, Pat has a Jew problem. I no longer pay him any attention, at least on this topic.

I had a conversation with a guy at the office. He is religious. As it happens, he is African-American and votes Democrat. I mentioned the Catholic view on one topic and he said something like - "Oh, I don't listen to those Catholics." I was surprised. All the more so in that I've never heard him condemn atheistic communism. If anything, he may be sympathetic to communists.

The point of this story, in the context of Pat and Joe, is that some people define religion too narrowly. If others are, theologically speaking, one inch away, they reject them. Oddly enough, people who are theologically ten feet away, or a mile away, may be all right. To me, it is irrational.

However it might make an odd sort of sense. Those who are truly different might be converted. Those who are similar are competitors. Sometimes sibling rivalry is the fiercest kind.

[ChessExpert]

"But I am also beginning to think that he really is anti-Semitic."

Probably so.

I think some on the far far "right" have linked Jews with liberalism in this country, and some have linked Jews to communism abroad. I think these views are fundamentally mistaken - even though some factual support can be found. Jews have the same split as do Christians. Consider for example Marx, atheist Jew, and Engels, atheist Christian (or atheist ex-Christian). Western civilization has lurched to the left from the French revolution on.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If Buchanan was a raging anti-Semite and Israel hater, don't you think his articles would have been banned from FR?

[TheDon]

Poor Pat. He's sounding like the 1930s fascist appeasers.