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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