have a great Easter Linda and all who observe it.
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> Buckley Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now
> a "Failure"
> Bloomberg 31 March 2006 William
> F. Buckley Jr.,
> the longtime conservative writer and leader, said
> George W. Bush's
> presidency will be judged entirely by the outcome of
> a war in Iraq
> that is now a failure. "Mr. Bush is in the
> hands of a
> fortune that will be unremitting on the point of
> Iraq," Buckley said
> in an interview that will air on Bloomberg
> Television this weekend.
> "If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get
> him out of his
> jam." Buckley said he doesn't have a
> formula for getting out
> of Iraq, though he said "it's important that we
> acknowledge in the
> inner councils of state that it (the war) has
> failed, so that we
> should look for opportunities to cope with that
> failure." The 80-year-old Buckley is among
> a handful of
> prominent conservatives who are criticizing the war.
> Asked who is to
> blame for what he deems a failure, Buckley said,
> "the president,"
> adding that "he doesn't hesitate to accept
> responsibility."
> Buckley called Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
> a longtime
> friend, "a failed executor" of the war. And Vice
> President Dick
> Cheney "was flatly misled," Buckley said. "He
> believed the business
> about the weapons of mass destruction."
> National
> Review Buckley, often called the father of
> contemporary
> conservatism in America, articulated his beliefs in
> National Review
> magazine, which he founded in 1955. His conservatism
> calls for small
> government, low taxes and a strong defense. Both
> Ronald Reagan and
> Barry Goldwater said they got their inspiration from
> the
> magazine. In the interview, Buckley
> criticized the so-called
> neo- conservatives who enthusiastically embraced the
> Iraq invasion
> and the spreading of American values around the
> world. "The
> neoconservative hubris, which sort of assigns to
> America some kind of
> geo-strategic responsibility for maximizing
> democracy, overstretches
> the resources of a free country," Buckley said.
> While
> praising Bush as "really a conservative," he was
> critical of the
> president for allowing expansion of the federal
> government and never
> vetoing a spending bill. The president's
> "concern has been
> so completely on the international scope that he can
> be said to have
> neglected conservatism" on the fiscal level, Buckley
>
> said. Appraising Presidents Buckley
> also offered his
> perspectives on other recent presidents:
> Richard Nixon "was one of the brightest people
> who ever occupied
> the White House," he said, "but he suffered from
> basic derangements,"
> which precipitated his own downfall.
>
>
> Ronald Reagan "confounded the intellectual
> class, which disdained
> him." Every year though, Buckley said, "there is
> more and more
> evidence of his ingenuity, of his historical
> intelligence."
>
> Bill Clinton "is the most gifted politician of,
> certainly my
> time," Buckley said. "He generates a kind of a
> vibrant goodwill with
> a capacity for mischief which is very, very
> American." He doubted
> that "anyone could begin to write a textbook that
> explicates his
> (Clinton's) political philosophy because he doesn't
> really have one."
> Buckley exalted in what he sees as the
> conservative success
> stemming from his call a half century ago in the
> National Review to
> "stand athwart history and yell stop."
> That, he remembered,
> was when Marxism was widely considered "an absolute
> irreversible call
> of history." The folly of that notion was
> demonstrated by the demise
> of communism a decade and a half ago, he said.
> Buckley said he had a few regrets, most
> notably his magazine's
> opposition to civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
> "I think that
> the impact of that bill should have been
> welcomed by us," he said.
>
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