Kudos to Bob Shrum :
One thing stands out in the Buchanan blog: While crying crocodile tears for a Democratic Party which, he predicts, will be split down the middle over the Iraq War, he says nothing at all about his own position on the war. Does he think that the invasion was a mistake or not, that the cost is lives and treasure is worth paying, that President Bush is right that somehow, someday a failed policy will succeed?
Our man's reply:
As for where I stood and stand on the war, I opposed it daily on 'Buchanan & Press' on MSNBC and wrote that it would prove the greatest foreign policy blunder of my lifetime. But
Ah, "But," what Murray Rothbard called "the great weasel word of our time."
But as I read the most recent bulletin from my old high school, Gonzaga, I also saw pictures of Gonzaga grads, in Iraq, who are putting their lives on the line and believe in their cause. Yes, this is Bush's war, but it is also America's war, our war, because a Democratic Senate authorized President Bush to take us in.
Wow, Pat, it's now "our war" because the entire War Party approved it? I'm on board now!! Where do I sign up?
And while American soldiers have not lost a single battle, we are not winning the war. But this, it seems to me, is not cause for gloating or mockery of the president.
Of course not Pat. Who could do that to the man you endorsed and voted for? How could anyone mock that prescient genius of WMD and Mission Accomplished fame? Besides, I would have thought that John Ashcroft (whom you memorably called an "outstanding...attorney general") would have made spirited dissent of The Leader jailable during his term. People out there somewhere mocking Our Beloved Bush. What's the world coming to?
