Buckley ‘Should Be Hung’

February 25, 2006

(RBN) – Michael Reagan, son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is blasting National Review Editor at Large William F. Buckley Jr. for declaring that the U.S. won’t be able to win the war in Iraq, saying Buckley ought to be
"hung for treason."

"William Buckley should be arrested and hung for treason or put in a hole until the end of the Iraq war!" Reagan told his Radio America audience on Monday.

Reagan was reacting to Buckley’s comments earlier in the day, when the top neoconservative said "Our mission has failed."

In a National Review Online article, Buckley declared the American objective in Iraq to have failed and urged on different plans to be made on the base of an acknowledgment of defeat.

Posted by b on February 25, 2006 at 11:09 UTC | Permalink

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In a National Review Online article, Buckley declared the American objective in Iraq to have failed and urged on different plans to be made on the base of an acknowledgment of defeat.
Defeat? As war nutters know, when losing, expand the war!
“The Defense Department budget last year was three-quarters of a trillion dollars. I guarantee you that when war becomes that profitable, there will be more of it.”
—Chalmers Johnson, 2005
Chalmers Johnson authored a nice piece last year entitled America’s Empire of Bases which is a great effort in helping one wrap their noodle around just how hugely lucrative is this ideal of endless, ambiguous warfare–especially for infamous the “NeoCon Companies”.
Ohhh…and whenever you’re thinking about the military-industrial complex, always try to keep in mind the beautiful simplicity of the collusion: the “companies” and the “government” can be in bed together because they are never really competing–because in the end, they’re only using your money….
Sweet deal, if you ask me, defeat? not so much..
On to Iran boys, that’s where the real men go!
“Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.”
Senior Bush Official, May 2003

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 25 2006 12:41 utc | 1

I believe that comments like this can be construed as “leaking information that is useful to the enemy” and qualify Billy B. as a fifth columnist.
Time to start filling up those detention centers.

Posted by: ralphieboy | Feb 25 2006 12:50 utc | 2

youse guys can have your fun but when a staunch old republican says the war is lost it is music in my ears. I have been very anxiously awaiting this day.
betcha limbaugh and hannity do NOT attack Buckley over this.

Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 25 2006 14:14 utc | 3

dan, I believe your wrong. I bet on Monday they take shots at WFB and claim he’s abandoned the conservative movement. But Limblowhard and mad hatter Hannity will take shots at anyone who disagrees with Bushie. All week Limblow bashed democrats as racist for the UAE port deal with no mention of all the rethugs against the deal. I wonder if Limblow will say WFB is senile and has lost his conservative crudentials? I know, WFB has been being taken care of by a librul nurse and she has brainwashed him! Thats Limblows line.
No, no, WFB didn’t represent the conservative movement in the first place? Or, the conservative movement has moved beyond WFB’s notions of what the conservative movement is, he’s old ya know.
But what Limblow and the mad natter will do is blame WFB’s words on Democrats. Everything is the dems fault no matter what with those two. But I will bet Limblow and the hatter call WFB senile.

Posted by: jdp | Feb 25 2006 16:12 utc | 4

Mikey needs a refresher course on dad’s First Commandment.
I’d also love to know what Ron Jr. thinks about bro’s latest kniption.
All week Limblow bashed democrats as racist for the UAE port deal with no mention of all the rethugs against the deal.
Actually, I think making it seem like only Dems oppose to the port deal works to the our benefit. Keep it up Rushie. Just can’t trust Goopers on national security can we?
With thug scandals coming by the week now, Rush, Hannity, et al. are spinning so hard they’re making themselves dizzy.

Posted by: Night Owl | Feb 25 2006 16:53 utc | 5

As far as Michael Reagan is concerned, you can look at the situation two ways:
One, is to be sad how low the son of a president has sunk, that he is reduced to spewing tripe over the public’s airways to earn his living.
Two, you can appreciate the importance of the role of propaganda in inflaming, marshalling, and mobilizing mass opinion in a “free” society by noting that sons of former presidents are accorded this vital role.

Posted by: Malooga | Feb 25 2006 18:10 utc | 6

fellas!
Bernhard’s story is from Reality Based Networks (RBN)
just sayin’ before anybody embarrasses themselves….

Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 25 2006 18:25 utc | 7

Remember dan Bushie’s people create their own reality.

Posted by: jdp | Feb 25 2006 18:36 utc | 8

Buckly is not the only one on the far right looking for a way out.
O`Reilly is with him and BTW, the people to blame for the mess are … traraahhh: The Iraqis!!!
Buckley:

Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans. The great human reserves that call for civil life haven’t proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols.

O’Reilly:

Now, it’s a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country — so many crazies — that we can’t control them. And I don’t — we’re never gonna be able to control them.

Even Fukuyama “I never have been a Neocon” is giving up:

As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war, it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly.

Posted by: b | Feb 25 2006 18:41 utc | 9

michael reagan did say however howard dean should be hung for treason for his comments about iraq.

Posted by: annie | Feb 25 2006 18:55 utc | 10

Great post B, shows the hipocrisy of the American media

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Feb 25 2006 20:29 utc | 11

Gotta love all that hang-em for treason talk. It must be some kind of knee-jerk subliminal code talk amongst the believers to keep the flock in line. Truth is, there is some profound discontentment out there amongst the conservatives. Those that hold true and dear to free market principals amd/or are ideologically bound to absolute individual autonomy, i.e. anti-tax, anti-welfare state — are (the ones I know&talk to)– LIVID WITH ANGER — at Bushco. They see him as a taking this golden opportunity, to finally, bring into fruitation their long held dreams of rolling back government domination of the individual — and sulliyng it’s ideological purity in a spend-fest hysteria of cronyism, incompetence, and baffonary. Some I’ve talked with consider Bush a far greater threat to their ideals, than even the democrates — Maybe bush is the republican Hughy Long?

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 25 2006 20:34 utc | 12

Buckley should be hung, not for these statements, but for turning his magazine over to the likes of Jonah Goldberg!

Posted by: mrm | Feb 25 2006 21:05 utc | 13

DreamWorks Soon To Be Tower of Power?
Robertson seen as Speilberg’s White Knight
By Pat Andersen
CNN Glendale
Friday, February 24, 2006;
Posted: 7:53 a.m. EST (12:53 GMT)
In a strange business twist, paralleling
the purchase of Disney Studios by the
US Society of Mormons, Pat Robertson’s
Christian Coalition Broadcast Company
and a coalition of American tele-evangelists
have made an offer for controlling interest
in Dreakworks SKG, the motion picture
company first made famous by director
Steven Spielberg and media moguls
David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Now that Dreamworks (DWA) is a public
corporation, it was revealed on Thursday
that an outstanding $500M in debentures
in the company, held by Viacom through
a deal completed on February 1st, had
been transferred through cash purchase
to an Arab company, Network Productions,
headquartered in Dubai.
Assumption of the Viacom-held debt would
have made the Arab media company, owned
by Shiek Khali Al Netanyahu, into the
majority shareholder of Dreamworks.
Robertson spoke of the white knight
offer on his Thursday “700 Club” show.
“My zeal, my love of Israel and my concern
for the future safety of our nation led me
to make the offer to save Mr. Spielberg,
Geffen and Katzenberg’s movie studio from
falling into the hands of Arab terrorists.”
Robertson plans to lead a group of five
tele-evangelicals planning the majority
stock buy back of DreamWorks, which they
hope to convert into a Christian movie
making company.
Reverend Rubert Shuller enthused, “We
see this as the Bible’s New Gospels of
Our Times, using SKG’s animation and
Christian storylines to spread the Word
of God among the heathen of the world.
Jamal Khasarji, deputy chief of Network
Productions, speaking on behalf of the
Shiek, complained that the stock sales
from Viacom to Christian Broadcasting
were wholly illegal, and in any case, the
Shiek plans to mount a hostile takeover
to recovery his initial investments, then
sell off Dreamworks’ facilities and retain
the Dreamworks brand for his own company.
“UAE Network Productions plans a series
of Dreamworks films depicting the true
story of the so-called Christian Crusades,
in which uncivilized heathen hordes from
Northern Europe despoiled the Holy Land
with their unholy Papist swill.”
Dreamworks DWA stock was up $2.45
to $27.34 on the white knight offer and
hostile takeover bidding, after several
years of disappointing returns.

Posted by: Clarence Thomas | Feb 26 2006 2:20 utc | 14

As many observers have already pointed out, the UAE supported terrorist activities against the US, two of 9/11 hijackers were from UAE, and the UAE royal family has declared that Israel should be rubbed off the face of the earth, the same as Iran’s current government leaders have restated.
The UAE port deal is going through anyway.
If a few radioactive cargo shipments are lost by the port operators, (now renamed O&P Lines), and if a few high-tech Defense weapons get lost in repatriating them from Iraq, well, you can file a claim with Department of Homeland Security, and they will have someone run a trace on it.
So it’s perfectly OK, it’s been vetted, and you all should go back to your knitting and shut up.

Posted by: Michael Raegan | Feb 26 2006 2:29 utc | 15

Repost:
Just so’s nobody gets it wrong. Michael Reagan is not Ron jr.
Posted by: pb | Feb 25, 2006 11:17:24 PM | #

Posted by: pb | Feb 26 2006 4:23 utc | 16

of course we know the difference between michael and ron jr!
its a slow night, i will share a story. i used to work for sag, stand in and stunt work (my favorite gig was for jody foster on a dennis hopper film for a couple months in new mexico) , i digress, i was working on the set of the tv show falcon creast in napa valley, spring mountain winery, for a season doing stand in for a number of different actors and jane wyman was in the cast (you knew that) she had been reagans 1st wife and as i recall he was prez at the time. michael came for a visit on the set. i’m not kidding, unbelievable, classic. i’m telling you he was so hot to trot he flamed up the entire promenade like the royal queen that he is.he was carrying his toy poodle with a rhinestone(unless they were real!) collar and a real swish to his walk, he simply glided. his young boyfriend accompanied him, we took off a little early for lunch, rare on a film set. he had body guards, maybe secret service, the cast and crew was a buzz over the visit.

Posted by: annie | Feb 26 2006 5:01 utc | 17

gossip, i’m terrible!

Posted by: annie | Feb 26 2006 5:04 utc | 18

@annie cool story. stunt work, eh? wow.

Posted by: b real | Feb 26 2006 6:06 utc | 19

Rats leaving a sinking ship.
(re. head story, not annie’s!)

Posted by: Noisette | Feb 26 2006 10:58 utc | 20

b real, i never did the fancy dangerous stuff.
the shoot ’em up scenes are frequently done w/stunt doubles and they’re fun, lots of running around w/explosions, anybody can do it.

Posted by: annie | Feb 26 2006 16:19 utc | 21

great story, annie, and this is while or the rumors were runing around about ron jr. Who knew, masterful diflection.
good point anna missed.
O’Reilly:
Now, it’s a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country — so many crazies — that we can’t control them. And I don’t — we’re never gonna be able to control them.
He’s right of course. They’re about 130,000 of them and they are called the US military and contractors.

Posted by: Malooga | Feb 27 2006 3:52 utc | 22

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