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>From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Cerebral Palsy List <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Conservatives abandon Bush's war in Iraq  now a message
>Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:36:27 -0700
>
>have a great Easter Linda and all who observe it.
>
>--- Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >    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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