Who likes Pat Buchanan?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20070223/cm_uc_crpbux/op_331168;_ylt=AgxewCNL414VIxEESnFq.6Kets8F

[Vice President Cheney hails Tony Blair's announced withdrawal of British troops as a sign of success. Yet, he says the Pelosi-Murtha plan to withdraw U.S. troops would only "validate the al-Qaida strategy."]


Huh? What?

Answer 1

Likes him for what? Does he have a new sitcom on Fox or something?

Answer 2

I don't particularly care for Pat, who showed us his true nature when he decided to bolt the GOP because he felt unappreciated when they didn't raise him to demi-God status.

As for the second part re: Brit troop withdrawal, it was only a partial withdrawal and it was based on the current situation in the areas they are assigned to. Basically, the violence has been low and the Iraqi security good where they are. As it has been in the Kurdish areas.

That is not true for the area the US is in - Baghdad and the Sunni triangle (Kirkut, Ramadi, Fallujah, etc) where the majority of the violence has been occurring. Most of the violence is here, as well as the seat of government, so it does not offer the same opportunity for troop withdrawal.

Oh, btw, did you know that the surge, using the new tactics of General Patreas, is working? Isn't that great?

Answer 3

I do not share his political views or his confidence that only him and those like him have a grip on morality. I give him grudging respect for calling a duck a duck on some occasions. For instance, he admitted that the Marriage Amendment was a last ditch effort to stop the inevitable Full Faith and Credit case making its way to the Supremes, and he also acknowledged that if the gay marriage question made it to the USSC that they would rule in favor of gay marriage.

In this case, I think he is over the top in castigating Europeans for leaving this war in droves and relating it to our requested involvement in European difficulties. Wrong is wrong. You don't continue supporting the agenda of any country, whether they have helped you in the past or not, when they are clearly following a failed war policy supported by lies and manipulated intelligence. I think it's more of an indictment on our government's failed policies in Iraq than their government's decision to stop participating in our quagmire. If he is right, and we have been the only ones who have effected real solutions to their problems, then maybe they are starting to lose faith in our omnipotence when they see us make bad decision after bad decision in Iraq. He seems to be demanding blind loyalty, and that is never a reasonable demand.

EDIT to Butter: I do hope this plan works, I think we all do. But don't declare victory so quickly - we need to remember the rest of the statements made by the commanders on the ground. The success we are enjoying is because militant factions withdrew. The prevailing opinion is that they are regrouping to plan new attacks on our relatively small bands of soldiers we have placed in those areas.

Answer 4

The Basra area is calm. There are very few problems there and it's secure. Pulling Brits out of that area is a success story.

Baghdad is not as secure, yet. The fight is here. If we pulled out of Baghdad, that would be a sign of failure and "validate the Al Qaida strategy".

He's right.

Answer 5

The same one who's a Rush Limburger-cheese sound-alike? The one who was an adviser and speech writer for Tricky Dicky and Agnew Corrupt Agnew, the anti-semite who forgets that JESUS was born, raised, and died a JEW? ARE YOU INSANE? He should be taken to the back of the old shed and whipped like an old rented donkey and forced to make kinky love to that transvestite, Ann Coulter (yucky!!!). He urged Tricky Dickie not to visit Martin Luther King's widow because, "It would outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue, and perhaps worse...."

The only good thing he's good for is to clean out pig-pens and lie down with them! He's another demagogue that would bring another civil war to htis country... he's a lot more dangerous than goofy-loony Rush Limburger-cheese! Ever wonder why he's NOT too popular with other Republicans or even with intelligent, educated Americans (intelligent, educated Republicans consider him the White version of Al Sharpton).

Answer 6

I like Pat Buchanan.

He is a true conservative.

Read his columns and books, then decide for yourself about the man and his ideas. Do NOT let the media, politicians or your teachers tell you what to think.

Just a few of his positions: Against attacking Iraq, Against attacking Iran, Against unrestrained immigration, For the property rights of all (including the poor)

Answer 7

In his statements on this issue (Iraq) he is refreshing inasmuch he is a throwback to the old school isolationist Republican, and he is always hammering the ideologues such as Kristol and the other neocons.

Answer 8

Who likes Pat Buchanan? The IRS and his therapist?