[yonif]

Ping.

[risk]

In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.

Just delusional.

[sully777]

SHOCKED?

I'm not.

[Petronski]

Gemma introduced the evening’s keynote speaker, IHR director Mark Weber.

No doubt his name should be pronounced 'VAY-bur' and not 'WEH-ber.' Good gravy, those IHR creeps make me sick.

[West Coast Conservative]

Why am I not surprised?

[Tempest]

I'm not surprised he probably went out for drinks with a few DUmmies afterwards.

[Once-Ler]

Holocaust-deniers in the United States continued their efforts to gain a measure of respectability in 2004

A Buchanan staffer can not provide any measure of respectability. Hey they also have the support from Louisiana legislator David Duke. I see the tide turning...NOT!

[Finalapproach29er]

A guilt by (past) association smear.

This is a bizarre cheap shot against a small timer. IMO

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Nataku X]

I liked Buchanan in 1996 until I watched an interview with him on TV. I was in high school then, didn't know that much about him except that he was most conservative of all the Republican candidates in the primary, and his anti-semitism really, really shocked me.

[RaceBannon]

I worked on the Buchanon campaign in 96. We had a central comittee set up for who was to lead the efforts.

One guy took over the efforts in the town where I live, I didnt hear his name at the head meeting.

So, I called the state campaign leader, told him what I heard, and he freaked out!

Seems the guy who took over the campaign was a DAVID DUKE supporter!

I repeated what I was told to a junior leader in town, and he told me HE AGREED WITH DAVID DUKE on foreign policy!

I was stunned. And, it was the last time I worked for them.

I do NOT believe it was lead by anti-semites, but I am convinved it ATTRACTED anti-semites!

[ken21]

surprise, surprise. (/s)

i've never been comfortable with pat buchanan.

it's not so much what he says, as the smell afterwards.

[hchutch]

Gee, Pat's aides sure get around, don't they?

And he always seems to be whining about stuff.

[wildbill]

Although it is wrong to arbitrarily assign blame to Pat Buchanan for the whatever one of his associates may say some years later, one could say that Pat has brought some questions to the table by his words over the past few years.

Personally I think what we see in Buchanan is the slow accretion of latent biases coming out as the man ages. Haven't you all seen something like this in your own families or acquaintances.

[StoneColdGOP]

He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because “diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody”; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as “an individual of great courage”; and he mocked Holocaust survivors’ memories as “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” (The New Republic, Oct.15 and Oct.22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.

Great... I suppose he's spent enough time breathing CO2 out of a diesel engine to know it's true?

[Modernman]

Pat Buchanan ping.

Remember the Bad SS/Good SS distinction he made?

[Baraonda]

God bless Pat Buchanan.

Wishing him a Merry Christmas and a continued propsperous political career.

[bayourod]

Don't dismiss Buchanan yet. He may not run again but I suspect he is grooming Tom Tancredo to run in 2008. See The Internet Brigade.

[COEXERJ145]

The sad thing is there are a lot of people on this site who agree with Buchanan and share his racist views on immigrants and Jews.

[Peter Gemma]

I have never denied there was a Holocaust — a persecution and ethnic cleanising of Jews during WWII.

I don't believe Pat Buchanan or Mark Weber have either.

Peter Gemma