William F. Buckley Jr.: War defines Bush's failure
Once again, the Buckster and I agree:
Buckley: War defines Bush's failure
By HEIDI PRZYBYLA AND JUDY WOODRUFF
SYNDICATED COLUMNISTS
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 a recent interview on Bloomberg Television. "If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of his jam."
Buckley said one of the primary faults of the Iraq war strategy was that that the United States "anticipated almost immediate success." He said "that punishes us as days go by."
Buckley also criticized the so-called neo-conservatives who enthusiastically embraced the Iraq invasion and the spreading of U.S. 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.
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Asked who is to blame for what he deems a failure, Buckley said, "the president."
Right on, Mr. Buckley....my kind of conservative.