Buchanan says Bush has his sights on Iran, and the Dems may get in line (must read)

[Lord Byron]

"Still One More Card to Play

by Patrick Buchanan
January 12, 2007

Wednesday night, George Bush seemed to play his last card in the Iraq war. It was not impressive. Consider.

First, he warned of the awful consequences of a U.S. defeat: "Radical Islamic extremism would grow ... in strength and gain new recruits. They would be in a better position to topple moderate governments, create chaos in the region and use oil revenues to fund their ambitions. Iran would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons."

Bush then warned of the awful consequences of the Baker commission proposal to "announce the phased withdrawal of our combat forces." "(T)o step back now would force a collapse of the Iraqi government, tear the country apart and result in mass killings on an unimaginable scale."

Twin those two warnings, and what is Bush saying?
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To read the rest: http://www.theamericancause.org/print/011207.htm

[Lord Byron]

1. kick

[ShortnFiery]

2. Our Democratic Representatives best stop this "race to the rapture"

or else they shouldn't depend on winning their next Democratic Primary. We voted them IN and we can vote them OUT with a more peace loving Democratic Challenger.

[Lord Byron]

3. What frightens me is...

What frightens me is that I can just envision the opportunistic "rock star" candidates falling in line so as not to appear "weak on defense."

[AllexxisF1]

4. Boy I hope I do not get smeared for this.

But you know I have always liked Pat. I would never vote for him and disagree with many of his policies. But with Pat you know he means what he says and generally is a pretty charismatic guy.

Moreover he will be the first to stand up and tell a fellow Republican to shove it when they are wrong. Besides some of his crazy ideas Pat really is a traditional conservative that you could actually talk to. Not all the time but most of the time.

[BonnieJW]

5. I agree.

He is honest; something that is hard to find amidst the repubs.

[mzmolly]

8. Buchanan is a wind bag, who is accurate "some" of the time when it comes to

Republicans, he's rarely accurate when it comes to Democrats.

[Straight Shooter]

12. I *almost* subscribed to his magazine.

I think it's his magazine, best of my knowledge, American Conservative or something. I wanted to "know the enemy," but then I realized that the type of conservative that Buchanan is wouldn't give me any insight at all into the total nutcakes that call themselves conservatives these days, like bush and Frist and Brownback and McCain, who are apparently from another planet entirely that is hell-bent on destroying Earth.

After a while I learned that Buchanan is mostly huff-and-puff, anyway, but he still makes sense from time to time.

[originalpckelly]

17. It's surprising...

but the AC and The Nation are sounding like one another! :rofl:

And I mean that too, because I've read both. This is a fucking hilarious time we're living in.

[demnan]

6. What frightens me is

how much sense Buchanan is making these days.

[coalition_unwilling]

7. It's deja vu all over again. See Nixon's secret plan to end the

war in Vietnam, which boiled down to expanding the war to Cambodia and Laos.

[mzmolly]

9. Buchanan is mere entertainment these days.

Yes, he was right on Iraq because he's an isolationist - but I can't think of much else. I admit to not reading his puffery, but I do watch him "perform" on Scarryborough nightly. ;)

[Lord Byron]

10. he was right on NAFTA and trade too

eom

[mzmolly]

11. Yes he was, comes back to the "isolationist" mentality.

I am a bit of an isolationist myself actually. ;)

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. We need some isolationism and protectionism

We have shipped millions of jobs out of the country in the name of free trade. We have troops stationed in over 100 countries. We are at war with two countries and threatening another.

[Lord Byron]

14. True

We should let our voices be heard.

[AnnInLa]

15. I know what you mean

All this "global" shit is not what it was cracked up to be.

[originalpckelly]

19. It's just a bigger red, white and blue boot to shove up your ass...

welcome to the party. As George Carlin always says: "They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

We can have better, and we will soon.

[originalpckelly]

18. I know, and sadly the people of the countries where the jobs go...

are also getting screwed! It's these fucking assholes who own the big companies in America, and they're taking advantage of the whole world.

[mzmolly]

21. Indeed, and as strange as it sounds a strong America can be of more

help to some countries where we are now exploiting cheap labor.

[AzDar]

16. What have we come to when Pat Buchanan seems the voice of reason?

Scary, scary, times.

[Wizard777]

20. Even if Iran attacks. Bush MUST get an AUMF or DOW from Congress first.

No vaugely worded provision burried deep in the Patriot Act trumps the US Constitution.