Lew Rockwell sends some bad news for today’s neo-con chickenhawk mouth-frother – Bill Buckley is now regretting his support for the Iraq interventionism:
If we aren’t attentive, Bill Buckley’s antiwar pronouncement, issued in an interview with the New York Times, could be relegated to a minor footnote in this week’s news pages, whereas it really speaks volumes about the history of the last 50 years and the fall of American freedom in the push for perpetual war.
Pro-war crowd, feel free to wring your hands profusely while hanging your collective heads in shame.
What he said, in his famously circuitous way, was this: “With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn’t the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.”
But almost 1000 U.S. military men and women have died, partially as a result of the generous amount of public support and chest-thumping for war by you and yours. I’m grateful you admit the error of your ways now Bill, but what about those kids growing up without fathers? What about the young wife now struggling to take care of her young child while simultaneously dealing with the grief of her husband’s death? What about the thousands of men and women missing limbs, permanently disabled or emotionally traumatized as a result of your righteous chest-thumping? Are you going to help them out now? What about it Bill?
Further, what about the billions and billions of dollars that you and your unholy cabal of big government interventionist cronies have stolen from American taxpayers in pursuit of your war in Iraq?
Drop me an email Bill. I’ll tell you where to send the refund – and no, we won’t accept a personal check from Jonah Goldberg.