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An Open Letter to Pat Buchanan
Chronwatch ^ | July 31, 2006 | Burt Prelutsky

Posted on 08/01/2006 11:22:56 AM PDT by SJackson

Pat Buchanan, not satisfied merely looking like a Herblock depiction of a bigot, a man who never allows an opportunity to slam Israel slip through his fingers, has been on a rampage because Israel has finally gone after the murderous thugs and sadists of Hezbollah.

The fact that the terrorists don’t wear uniforms means that every time the Israelis kill one of them, Buchanan and his ilk get to insist that Israel is targeting civilians. Buchanan’s concern for civilians isn’t nearly so evident when it’s Jews who are targeted by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO’s suicide bombers.

One of the sillier things Israel has done in recent years was to fall for the land for peace con game. They surrendered territory and any number of settlements as a gesture of good will. Good will gestures made to terrorists and tyrants are the height of folly and cowardice, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the Arabs or Adolf Hitler. Offer your hand to the tiger and don’t expect him to stop nibbling when he gets to your wrist.

Because Israel plays such a prominent role in the news, and because it’s managed, against all odds, to survive for 58 years, one can easily over-estimate its actual place in the world. The fact of the matter is that unless you were at the top of your geography class, you’d be hard-pressed to find it on your globe. To give you a clear idea of what Israel is up against, keep in mind that there are 22 countries in the Arab League. The League encompasses 5,200,000 square miles; Israel was 8,000 square miles before giving up the aforementioned turf. What’s more, there are 312 million people living in those 22 countries. Israel’s population is six million, more than a million of whom are Arabs.

So far as Buchanan and his friends are concerned, it would seem that the only thing that’s required to make Israel the jewel of the Middle East is for those five million Jews to disappear.

You have to wonder what it is about those 8,000 square miles that the Arabs covet. It’s not as if Israel sits on huge oil deposits. Why aren’t five million square miles enough? I mean, if you had five million dollars, would you cry yourself to sleep every night because you didn’t have $5,008,000?

Let’s face it -- before the Jews built universities, hospitals and concert halls, and planted trees and crops, the place was nothing but a desert.

So many people are happy to trumpet “No blood for oil.” How is it that we never hear them, or Mr. Buchanan, telling the Arabs, “No blood for sand”?

About the Writer: Burt Prelutsky is a humorist, movie reviewer, writer for television series and movies, and author of the new book, "Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From San Francisco." His website is at http://burtprelutsky.com. Burt receives e-mail at BurtPrelutsky@aol.com.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: achtungcorner; coughlinjunior; goosestepbuchanan; israel; mullahpat; openletters; patbuchanan; pitchforkpat; prelutsky; talibanpat
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1 posted on 08/01/2006 11:22:57 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

I don't understand why AIPAC or any other powerful Jewish organization can't shut Pat Buchanan up.


2 posted on 08/01/2006 11:24:56 AM PDT by The_Republican (So Dark The Con of Man)
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To: Alouette; Salem; F15Eagle; unionblue83; sergey1973; Esther Ruth; SunkenCiv; M. Espinola; Yehuda; ...

Ping! Broadside at Pat Buchanan!


3 posted on 08/01/2006 11:28:59 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (The Arab League jihad continues on like a fart in an elevator - FR American in Israel)
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To: The_Republican
The sign of a healthy society is when clowns like Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts can spew their bilge, and we can laugh at them.

We need the clowns.

4 posted on 08/01/2006 11:33:19 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: The_Republican
I don't understand why AIPAC or any other powerful Jewish organization can't shut Pat Buchanan up.

The right to free speech protects the right to make a total ass of oneself.
5 posted on 08/01/2006 11:34:05 AM PDT by GreenOgre (mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)
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To: SJackson
Hey Pat.....

BOO!

6 posted on 08/01/2006 11:36:05 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Convert from ECUSA

And hopefully he's re-loading for the next pass. Come around hard right!


7 posted on 08/01/2006 11:39:08 AM PDT by unionblue83 (I support the ghost of Mad Anthony Wayne.)
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To: Nachum

Don't you mean, JOO?


8 posted on 08/01/2006 11:39:47 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: sinkspur

Aren't Clowns supposed to make you laugh?

Every time Pat says anything, I see people bending out of shape, turning purple with anger. Isreali Press dubbed him American Hitler when he ran for Presidency and they were not smiling at all.

Funny thing is that Pat is usually viciously attacked and he only laughs out louder in response, while mocking his attackers.

How does he manage this inner peace?


9 posted on 08/01/2006 11:41:06 AM PDT by The_Republican (So Dark The Con of Man)
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To: SJackson

If Pat's ideas were followed and Israel was abandoned to the fanatics, they'd be back for more somewhere else. These nuts cannot be appeased. Pat acts like they've legitimate claims. If these crazies weren't fighting Israel, they'd be fighting someone else. It's their nature; it's not their grievances that make them this way.


10 posted on 08/01/2006 11:42:19 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Knowledge is power, so the MSM makes sure the terrorists have our classified info.)
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To: The_Republican
Pat thinks he's right. He really believes that Jews are behind the ills of the world, and, especially, those neo-cons whose names end with -itz, and -stein, and -berg in America.

Pat's headed down the PCRoberts road, i.e., a doddering septuagenarian who has to wear a drool cup.

11 posted on 08/01/2006 11:44:42 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: The_Republican
How does he manage this inner peace?

Psychotropic drugs?

12 posted on 08/01/2006 11:44:53 AM PDT by wyattearp (Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
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To: The_Republican

Cites Free Speech for one. The other? He's a useful tool for the Left.

They paint him as a conservative Christian Republican.

He's not the first two, and I don't know if he's currently registered as a Republican but he's hardly a spokesman for them.

The more they parade him about, though, the less useful he becomes. More and more people are denouncing him as the anti-semite he is..in public. they used to whisper it in the shadows and simply ignore that "unpleasantness" about him.


13 posted on 08/01/2006 11:48:40 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: SJackson

Dear Pat:

I want my '92 primary vote back.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Rich


14 posted on 08/01/2006 11:51:15 AM PDT by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but too much of the press thinks they're exempt.)
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To: The_Republican
re: I don't understand why AIPAC or any other powerful Jewish organization can't shut Pat Buchanan up. )))

Because then they'd have to confront the real enemy--Islam.

15 posted on 08/01/2006 11:53:09 AM PDT by Mamzelle (in vino, veritas)
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To: sinkspur
>>>>>Pat's headed down the PCRoberts road, i.e., a doddering septuagenarian who has to wear a drool cup.

Hardly. Buchanan remains one of the most intelligent commentators and quickest debaters on TV.

16 posted on 08/01/2006 12:00:07 PM PDT by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Thorin

Yes, Nazi Pat is a Master Debater.


17 posted on 08/01/2006 12:03:29 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Thorin
Hardly. Buchanan remains one of the most intelligent commentators and quickest debaters on TV.

He hates Jews, particularly neo-cons in America and those in Israel.

He only appears, occasionally, on MSNBC when Chris Matthews needs a "conservative" to trash George Bush.

Pat's presence, I predict, will be relegated to his dying magazine and lewrockwell.com in the very near future.

18 posted on 08/01/2006 12:05:26 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: The_Republican
I don't understand why AIPAC or any other powerful Jewish organization can't shut Pat Buchanan up.

Maybe they just need to tell him to shut up in German?
19 posted on 08/01/2006 12:05:30 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: sinkspur
The sign of a healthy society is when clowns like Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts can spew their bilge, and we can laugh at them. We need the clowns.

So how come most FReepers aren't saying the same thing about Mel Gibson? Personally I think what Buchanan, Roberts, et. al., do is far worse than some drunken Hollywood celeb's tirade.

20 posted on 08/01/2006 12:07:27 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Where you go with me, heaven will always be.)
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