[Peace-discuss] Truth from the Right

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Buchanan wrote the piece described below -- which sounds to me eminently
correct -- just after authoring a disgusting piece justifying torture.  
His "indictment of the 'War Party'" seems to illustrate three points often
proclaimed on "News from Neptune": [1] nobody can be wrong all the time;
[2] in American politics, you must often go the the Right for analyses, to
the Left for principles; and [3] sometimes the most revolutionary thing
you can do is demand the Left live up to those principles. The cowardly
tergiversations of the Democratic liberals [code red oxymoron alert] mean
that they say and do nothing about the matters described here.]

Drudgereport.com 3/11.  In this week's AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, editor Pat
Buchanan issues a controversial, 5000-word indictment of the 'War Party'
of Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz and Richard Perle.

The magazine will hit newsstands and bookstores tomorrow. With quotes and
citations, Buchanan alleges:

* 'War Party' ideas and plans for an attack on Iraq had been 'in
preparation far in advance of 9/11, and when President Bush was looking
for a new front,' the neocons 'put their precooked meal in front of him.
And Bush dug into it.'

* Richard Perle wrote a paper urging Israeli PM Netanyahu to dump the Oslo
Peace Accords and target Iraq -- five years before 9/11.

* Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith urged Israel to ditch the Oslo
and take back the West Bank though 'the price in blood would be high,'
three years before the Camp David talks.

* Pentagon official David Wurmser urged the U.S. to act in concert with
Israel to 'strike fatally...the regimes of Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli,
Tehran and Gaza' -- nine months before 9/11.

* Bennett, Kristol, Podhoretz 'seized on the horrific atrocity [of
September 11] to steer America's rage into all-out war to destroy their
despised enemies, the Arab and Islamic rogue states that have resisted
U.S. hegemony and loathe Israel.'

* The neocon vision is 'to conscript American blood to make the world safe
for Israel....[They] seek American empire and the Sharonites seem hegemony
over the Middle East. The two agendas coincide precisely.'

* Buchanan charges Max Boot of the WSJ and Lawrence Kaplan of New Republic
with 'playing the anti-Semitic card....to fend off critics by
assassinating their character and impugning their motives.'

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