A phrase used to illustrate AIPAC's influence on Congress, which no one can deny is considerable.
During the Gulf crisis: "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." ("McLaughlin Group," 8/26/90)
Are you denying AIPAC and similar groups were some of the loudest proponents of US intervention against Iraq?
In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (The Guardian, 1/14/92)
Pat was quoting a respected historian's analysis of Hitler's political success. What of the above is untrue?
Writing of "group fantasies of martyrdom," Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody." (New Republic, 10/22/90)
Historians believe the Nazis used a diesel engine to gas people in Treblinka. This is strage, however, since diesel engines emit tiny amounts of carbon monoxide, so using their exhaust to kill people would be strikingly inefficient. If you ran a gasoline engine in your garage with all doors and windows closed, you would die in a few minutes, but not if you ran a diesel engine..
Some historians ran an experiment whereby they built a replica of Treblinka's chamber, put animals into it, and ran a Diesel engine. It killed, but only after a substantial amount of time (it wouldn't kill in your garage because unlike the chamber your garage isn't totally sealed). So Diesel engines can kill, and that the Nazi's used one is well established, but why they chose this rather inefficient manner of killing is quite a curiousity, and I see no reason why commenting on it is antisemitic.
Buchanan's columns have run in the Liberty Lobby's Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.
Guilt by assosiation. Just because a person's article appears in a publication does not imply that the person agrees with the publican's editorial agenda. Pat writes synidacted columns. Anyone can buy them and print them, and it would not be difficult for an obscure publication with a low profile to print one without Buchanan's authorization.
Buchanan called for closing the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which prosecuted Nazi war criminals, because it was "running down 70-year-old camp guards." (New York Times, 4/21/87)
It just so turns out that this office ended up persecuting some innocent men. Besides, prosecution of Nazi war criminals is already being handeled by Israel and various international bodies. Why does the US government need to duplicate their efforts? Is not cooperation of local law enforcement enough?
Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan -- despite protests -- to visit Germany's Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried.
An insult to one the the greatest American presidents of all time. It is shameless how the neocons go along with the liberal lie that Reagan was controlled by his advisors.
At a White House meeting, Buchanan reportedly reminded Jewish leaders that they were "Americans first" -- and repeatedly scrawled the phrase "Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" in his notebook.
Documentation please.
Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan's line that the SS troops buried at Bitburg were "victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps." (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96)
Reagan was his own man, and those words were his own. The allegation that Buchanan wrote them is a lie perpetuated by Norm Podhoretz.
After Cardinal O'Connor criticized anti-Semitism during the controversy over construction of a convent near Auschwitz, Buchanan wrote: "If U.S. Jewry takes the clucking appeasement of the Catholic cardinalate as indicative of our submission, it is mistaken. When Cardinal O'Connor of New York seeks to soothe the always irate Elie Wiesel by reassuring him 'there are many Catholics who are anti-Semitic'...he speaks for himself. Be not afraid, Your Eminence; just step aside, there are bishops and priests ready to assume the role of defender of the faith." (New Republic, 10/22/90)
A couragous defense of Polish nuns whose actions were unfairly villified by the likes of ADL and AIPAC, a vilification which O'Connor was too cowardly to resist. What is antisemitic about building a convent near, not in, Auschwitz? Recall, that there were thousands of Christian vicitims killed there as well.
Are you now going to say the Pope is antisemitic for placing the cross in the field next to Auschwitz?
The Buchanan '96 campaign's World Wide Web site included an article blaming the death of White House aide Vincent Foster on the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad -- and alleging that Foster and Hillary Clinton were Mossad spies. (The campaign removed the article after its existence was reported by a Jewish on-line news service; Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2/21/96.)
Okay, so some campaign staffer posted a wacky conspiracy theory article. Big deal. You cannot deny, however, that Foster's death is rather mysterious, and that there is a high possibility of foul play involved.
to me, people who make such statements in writing repeatedly are antisemetic jew haters... there are so many quotes of Batty Pukaanan expressing vileness about jews,
You haven't presented a single one yet.