J'ACCUSE

National Review Online ^ | 3/12/2003 | David Frum

[dennisw]

He was talking about Buchanen with David Gregory. Imus told Gregory that Buchanen had lost a relative in the German concentration camps.

---> He fell off of a guard tower.

An oldie but goodie

[JohnGalt]

You had to go to a Canadian to get a response?

You Wilsonians need to get your own board.

[Poohbah]

He was talking about Buchanen with David Gregory. Imus told Gregory that Buchanen had lost a relative in the German concentration camps.

He fell off of a guard tower.

KA-POW! On target with high-order detonation!

[Howlin]

Love it!

[Consort]

It was disappointing to see how many poster here supported Buchanan and were totally blind to his fatal shortcomings. The GOP has done much better without him. If Buchanan is considered to be a Conservative, then Conservatism is in deep trouble.

[xzins]

Buchanen is no Jewish name.

I don't believe Imus until I see further evidence.

Nonetheless, this wouldn't be the first Jew who turned against other Jews. Kaganovitch did so for Stalin. Flavius Josephus did so for the Roman Legions.

[Poohbah]

Go back and reread Post #19--ALL of it. You missed the humor.

[hchutch]

Mr. Frum has a better idea of the best course of action for America than Mr. Buchanan. I ask you, why do you continute to advocate this blatatntly misuguided, naive, and stupid course of action?

Why are you defending a dictator who has waged war on American allies, attempted to assassinate an American president, fired on American aircraft, and who is now arming to threaten Americans with mass murder?

Why are you making common cause with with left-wing radicals and radical Islamists, former communists and other people who hate the United States – all in order to prematurely halt the war on terror and preserve the Iraqi dictator’s rule?

Why are you attempting to undermine a conservative Republican president in a moment of national emergency?

Why are you acting as an excuse-maker for America’s enemies?

Why are you not putting America first?

Why?

[Poohbah]

Here's the reason:

[xzins]

my apologies

i didn't get as far as the "guard tower" part.

I am so embarrassed.

[TigersEye]

"We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords." Hooray!
"We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world"... What relations?
..."that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own." Halleleujah!!!
"We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.”
Whatever it takes! With friends like Jacques Chirac and King Faisal who needs enemies? Let's start shooting and keep on shooting until not one voice is raised against us.

[ellery]

Pat should put some ice on that.

[hchutch]

Quote of the Day nomination.

[TC Rider]

I've been known to have an itchy posting finger myself from time to time.

[JohnGalt]

You'll understand when folks start divesting in dollars and investing in Euros. The President proposed an LBJ style budget, without including the cost of the war and yet you call him a Conservative President?

I guess I am against the war because I think President Bush is a better than average President and I don't want him to be a one-termer.

[hchutch]

Aha!! You just made one false assumption that shoots down your thesis.

Bush is going to let our troops WIN. LBJ never did.

[JohnGalt]

Huh? Sure Iraq will be defeated but Bush's Budget has world wide, economic ramifications (made worse by Greenspan putting ever more dollars into the market.)

As financiers decide they are better off converting their dollars into Euros where the currency is predictable, and with Europe sitting out the war, it will look very attractive. As the demand for dollars goes down, there will be serious implications to Joe Public, particularly as state governments across the country are set to raise taxes. That is my concern. I hope I am wrong.

Without stable, conservative justification for the action in Iraq, world financiers will start hedging their bets, and if the United States continues to pressure other Middle Eastern countries, financiers will continue to shift to Euros.

[Poohbah]

Yeah, sure...they'll stick their money in Euros, which are stable...but only because the economies backing them are completely stagnant.

BTW, is your net worth in the same league as Warren Buffett's? If not, then kindly explain how you seem know so much about international finance without deriving any benefit from that knowledge...

[JohnGalt]

I am just making an observtion about the behavior of France and Germany; or do you really think that they are behaving this way because they are anti-Semites and cowards?

With the coming deficits, very little, tax relief or deregulation, another Fed Rate cut, and a war with an uncertain future, I am simply not convinced that folks will keep financing this heaven on earth we have been trying to build. I am not willing to risk the 2004 election on it.

[Poohbah]

I am just making an observtion about the behavior of France and Germany; or do you really think that they are behaving this way because they are anti-Semites and cowards?

France and Germany have done a land-office business in selling questionable items to Iraq since 1991. Bonn and Paris are afraid of what's going to happen when we dig out the Iraqi archives. We might not be in a very forgiving mood.

A further twist in France is that 10% of the electorate is Muslim, and that number is only going to increase as time goes on.