From our good friend, Pat Buchanan--2000 dead, and for what?

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Politics makes strange bedfellows. Few have been as staunch or articulate in damning Bush's war than Pat Buchanan. This column lays it out in stark geopolitical terms.

Impeach Bush? Hell no. Give him a punishment that fits his crime--strap the arrogant asshole to a Humvee and take a long joyride around Baghdad...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47048

By the time this column appears, the remains of the 2,000th U.S. soldier to die in a war – that has lasted longer than World War I – for the United States will be on the way home. And it is difficult to visualize the end of this war or the victory so often predicted and promised

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A preliminary list of winners and losers from our invasion seems to show that it is our enemies who have prospered and our friends who have suffered. As of today, the principal winner of the Iraq war is Iran.

While our invasion of Afghanistan smashed a Taliban regime hostile to Iran, our invasion of Iraq was even more beneficial. It brought down a Baathist regime that had inflicted hundreds of thousands of casualties on Iran in their 8-year war in the 1980s. In power in Baghdad today, in place of Saddam, is a Shia regime that looks to Iran as patron and ally.

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With Iraq smashed and perhaps splintering after we depart, Tehran is set to fill the power vacuum. History may yet record that the U.S. Army did all the heavy lifting in the Persian Gulf to make Iran its pre-eminent power.

A second winner of the Iraq war is al-Qaida. While the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan dethroned the Taliban enablers of bin Laden, killed countless followers and destroyed his base camp, our invasion of Iraq compensated him for his losses. The Iraq war radicalized the Islamic world, recruited thousands of jihadists and converted Saddam's country – inhospitable terrain for Islamists – into the world's training ground for Islamic terrorists.

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How does the balance sheet look for the United States?

Saddam and his neo-Stalinist regime are history, the Iraqi people, especially the Shia and Kurds, are free, a threat to U.S. interests and the region is removed forever.

On the liability side, there is the high cost in dead and wounded, in alienated allies, in a radicalized Middle East, and in the creation in the Sunni Triangle of a base camp and training ground for jihadists that did not exist before the U.S. Army crossed the Kuwait border, 30 months ago.

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1. Geez, I hate it when I agree with that hate monger,

but dammit, he's spot on correct.

Of course, anyone of intelligence (like all us DUers) could have written that article in early 2002 for publication in late 2005.

But at least some of the reichwing are "getting it."

[kansasblue]

2. his mag, American Conservative...

beats on this admin regularly. He represents the true conservatives. I don't agree with him on social issues but he hates this elective war, the deficits, corruption....

[Bellamia]

3. Way to go, Pat!

Have mixed feelings about ole Pat,but hey, anytime anyone's against Bushit, its fine with me!