Buchanan Charges Neocons With 'Warmongering'

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[CoolGuyVic]

Buchanan Charges Neocons With 'Warmongering' Tue Mar 11 2003 11:53:48 ET

In this week's AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, editor Pat Buchanan issues a controversial, 5000-word indictment of the 'War Party' of Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz and Richard Perle.

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The magazine will hit newsstands and bookstores tomorrow. With quotes and citations, Buchanan alleges:

'War Party' ideas and plans for an attack on Iraq had been 'in preparation far in advance of 9/11, and when President Bush was looking for a new front,' the neocons 'put their precooked meal in front of him. And Bush dug into it.'

Richard Perle wrote a paper urging Israeli PM Netanyahu to dump the Oslo Peace Accords and target Iraq -- five years before 9/11.

Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith urged Israel to ditch the Oslo and take back the West Bank though 'the price in blood would be high,' three years before the Camp David talks.

Pentagon official David Wurmser urged the U.S. to act in concert with Israel to 'strike fatally...the regimes of Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, Tehran and Gaza' -- nine months before 9/11.

Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz 'seized on the horrific atrocity [of September 11] to steer America¹s rage into all-out war to destroy their despised enemies, the Arab and Islamic Œrogue states that have resisted U.S. hegemony and loathe Israel.'

The neocon vision is 'to conscript American blood to make the world safe for Israel....[They] seek American empire and the Sharonites seem hegemony over the Middle East. The two agendas coincide precisely.'

Buchanan charges Max Boot of the WSJ and Lawrence Kaplan of New Republic with 'playing the anti-Semitic card....to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives.'

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[MEG33]

Pat and Jimmy together ..

[scooby321]

Pat is So ANTISEMITE its not funny and so is Bob Novach

[vbmoneyspender]

Pat Buchanan issues a controversial, 5000-word indictment of the 'War Party' of Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz and Richard Perle.

When you are at war and you are a member of the 'War Party', isn't that a good thing?

[denydenydeny]

Pat wants no part of any foreign wars.

Unless we're talking going to war against Israel.

[CoolGuyVic]

Pat's right, but I just wish he'd leave Israel out of it.

True or not, every time he brings up Israel he gives his opponents an easy out.

[KC_Conspirator]

Pat is attacking "neo-cons"? I am shocked, just shocked! Its not as if this has not been going on since 96' for crying out loud. Regardless, I wish Pat the best on his publication.

[Argus]

I believe Pat also thinks we were on the wrong side in WWII.

[Shermy]

'War Party' ideas and plans for an attack on Iraq had been 'in preparation far in advance of 9/11,

Does he mean the Dept. of Defense didn't have contingency plans for the Iraqi quagmire we've been in years before that? Why weren't they activated back then? Clinton called for "regime change."

Seems to be more "Jewspotting" on Pat's part - one of his hangups. Reads like a Saudi newspaper.

[Howlin]

Exactly.

[ohioman]

When it comes to foreign policy, Pat's is in charge of the idiot's brigade.

[kevao]

And let's not forget the Jewish bankers who are wrecking our economy. Someone should do something.

[elhombrelibre]

Pat is an egotistic buffoon. Many conservatives forget that he seriously considered running against Reagan when Reagan ran for his second term. He's run against every Republican sense and helped get Clintoon elected. The man is a Frenchie.

[Shermy]

I like him sometimes, but his Father Coughlin-like Jew-obsession seems to be the fuel that gets his engines going. 12 years of bombing Iraq, French stabs in the back, Kurdish uprisings, Saudi and OPEC maneuvres to keep Iraqi oil production down, UN inspector dog and pony shows, Hussein buying off the Chinese, Russians and French, our continued costs in enforcing the sanctions regime, Iraqis suffering, etc. etc. - And Pat refines it all to be about Israel.

[sam]

Pat's stating the obvious. Look at all the "Israel-firsters" in this forum, in the news media, and in other positions of power. I just hope the price we end up paying for fighting Israel's war is worth it.

[elhombrelibre]

I think he'd like being compared to the Father. He's mono causal in his explanations, with the Jews being his answer to all that's bad in the Middle East. Not a pretty picture. Not a fair-minded man. Sad that he waste so much potential. He could a been a contender.

[elhombrelibre]

We share democratic values with Israel. That's the price you pay when you have allies who have civil governments.

[Moby Grape]

Those who get the least votes seem to have the biggest mouths....(Hey Pat, there is a reason you and Harry Browne can't get elected dog catcher).

[CoolGuyVic]

"Pat's stating the obvious."

I agree. Still, there are plenty of solid conservative reasons to oppose a war in Iraq that don't involve Israel.

Israel doesn't even factor into my reasoning when opposing this war.

[goldstategop]

America and Israel IS facing the SAME enemy. Its just too bad Pat Buchanan and his fellow paleo-cons choose to ignore what's in front on them. And just in case they think we're fighting Israel's war, here's a new flash for them: the 9-11 terrorists didn't attack America cause they hated Israel; they attacked America because their leaders told them America WAS the enemy.