Buckley Chastises Bush For Being "Incapable" Of Ending Iraq War "Failure"

[JABBS]

"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign," Buckley said for the July 22 interview with CBS News.

It's the latest in a series of stinging comments by Buckley about Bush and the Iraq War.

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[Skidmore]

1. Buckley is trying to salvage what he can of the Republican Party

before the November elections. He sees the writing on the wall and it says GWB-War Criminal and Dictator.

[JABBS]

2. He's alone

Guys like Bill Kristol keep pushing the Bush spin.

[yurbud]

3. Buckley is a relic of a bygone era when Repubs at least made nods to

reality.

[jaxx]

4. Too bad the congress is a bunch of wusses who will not censor him

and go on to impeachment. Instead they'll vote to send more arms to Israel so they can add to the mideast mess.

[demosincebirth]

8. Won't happen without Dem control of Congress.

[jaxx]

10. I know.

I'll vote dem even if the guy is a rat bastard. Anything to get the GOP out of power.

[demosincebirth]

13. Amen to that.

[JABBS]

12. of course

if bush had paid close attention to Israel, rather than dropping off his roadmap and otherwise doing nothing, and had he vowed to stop actual state-sponsored terrorism from Iran and Syria, rather than concocted state-sponsored terrorism from Iraq, we might not have this Mideast mess today.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I'm waiting for Ann Coulter to comment on Buckley criticizing

the Boy King. Make that excoriate.

[whistle]

6. It is about time, a strong denunciation when asked the

...question of what will President Bush's legacy be to foreign policy, Buckley replied very bluntly with raised eyebrows, "There will be no legacy....no subsequent president with repeat any statement made by George Bush in his State of the Union speech because...it is indecipherable."

Unfortunately, most neoconservatives now view William F. Buckley with contempt and disdain and see him as insignificant and extinct among conservative thinking.

[gratuitous]

9. Now that it's safe to do so

Buckley comes slithering out to shoot the battlefield wounded, and claim that George W. Bush never was a "real" conservative.

[JABBS]

11. he had to get honored first

that came in October; the denunciations started in February.

Point for future presidents: save your honorariums for the final days of your presidency.

[Montauk6]

7. This is all horse hockey

What, when the going gets tough, simply deny Bush is a conservative??? In that interview, WFB praised him, it said, as a "decisive leader." So??? What does that mean? All *'s decisions sucked, what's the point?

(Crazy analogy time)

Look, if you've got a group of slaughterhouses, and most of them are kept clean on the outside—lawns impeccably groomed, exteriors brightly painted and kept clean—but you've got one slaughterhouse that's dingy, filthy, doors wide open so you can see/hear the carnage going on within; you can't say that that one hellhole is NOT a proper slaughterhouse. True, it may not be well-managed but it's still a slaughterhouse; what goes on in there is no different than what goes on in the others.