Dear Brigade, I received a note from Pat letting me know he is delighted we are booting up the Brigade list again. He told me that he started writing his twice weekly column again and it will be on WorldNetDaily and in the print press. He said that the issues raised by September 11 -- immigration, homeland defense, intervention, and empire -- are all our issues. And that we will be in the debate with both feet. Pat asked me to mention that his new book, "The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil our Country and Civilization" will be in the bookstore in December. An unedited copy is being sent to reviewers this week, and the hardbacks should be shipping by mid-November. Brigade, we need to call our book stores, and make sure it is stocked. Also contact your local newspapers and ask them to carry Pat's column. Creators Syndicate 5777 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA. 90045 Email: info@creators.com Web: http://www.creators.com/index2_permissionRequests.html I've included Pat's latest column ('On-to-Baghdad!' or 'Stop at Kabul!'?) and a WND commentary on Pat below. For the 2 past columns check out the Pat Buchanan archive at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=185 It's great to have Pat writing again. Now let's get him a show on FOXNews! For the Cause, Linda -------- October 23, 2001 - WorldNetDaily.Com 'On-to-Baghdad!' or 'Stop at Kabul!'? By Patrick J. Buchanan © 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Neither the Taliban, nor al-Qaida, nor bin Laden is in the bag yet, but the war drums have already begun beating for phase II. If the war hawks have their way, Iraq is next on the target list. Three weeks ago, President Bush was warned in an open letter that his failure to attack Iraq "will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism." The ultimatum was signed by 41 foreign policy veterans and writers, including Jeanne Kirkpatrick, William Bennett and editors at The Weekly Standard, Commentary and The New Republic. National Review has now enlisted, The Wall Street Journal is in full shriek, and syndicated columnists are slapping on their war paint. As Cato the Elder ended every speech in the Roman forum with "Delenda est Carthago!" ("Carthage must be destroyed!"), so our neo-conservatives have decreed that Iraq must be destroyed. Now, if Iraq colluded in the mass murder of 5,500 Americans, Saddam's regime should be destroyed and the pounding not stop until he is dead or gone. But the problem is this: There is as yet no hard evidence of Iraqi complicity in the crime, but vast evidence of Saudi connections and involvement with the Taliban, al-Qaida and Osama. And if Iraq is not guilty of the atrocities of Sept. 11, and the U.S. lashes out at Baghdad, the Islamic world will see it not as a valid act of justice by a wounded, grieving America, but as an act of vengeance by an arrogant superpower on a small nation that defied it. Moreover, this war on Iraq would not be Desert Storm II. In 1991, President Bush had a 28-nation alliance and General Schwarzkopf had tens of thousands of troops from Britain, France, Syria and Egypt. They will not be there this time. Even Tony Blair has told Mr. Bush he will take a pass. And the Saudis have put us on notice that their bases are not available for an attack on another Arab country. This time, America goes in alone. Moreover, the mighty Army of Desert Storm, like Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, is history. In a dozen years, U.S. defense spending has fallen from Reagan's 6 percent of GDP to Clinton's 3 percent. Adds Oliver North, "We have cut our army divisions from 18 to 10. We now have 13 fighter wings, down from 24. Our Navy, which boasted 546 ships, today has only 316." In 1990, the U.S. had an open-and-shut case of naked aggression by Iraq that even the U.N. could recognize and our enemies could not deny. But without evidence of Saddam's collusion in the terrorism of Sept. 11, an attack on Iraq would be seen as an unprovoked, unjust war that could bring Arab and Islamic mobs into the streets from Morocco to Indonesia, risking the survival of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. What would it profit America to march to Baghdad, only to have Cairo fall to anti-American mobs? Writing in The Weekly Standard, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, those Hardy Boys of global hegemony, seem to revel in what is coming. This war "is not going to stop in Afghanistan," they exult, "it is going to spread and engulf a number of countries. ... It is going to resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid ... it is possible that the demise of some 'moderate' Arab regimes may be just round the corner." But while the little magazines and big talkers whoop it up for a war of civilizations, neither Congress nor the country is clamoring for a war on radical Arabdom or militant Islam. And a lesson from Vietnam ought especially to be remembered now: "Before we commit the army, commit the nation." Finally, there is a small matter of the Constitution. Congress, alone, has the power to declare war. Before launching Desert Storm, President Bush won the authorization of Congress to go to war. But this President Bush has not been authorized to attack nations other than Afghanistan. And the GOP chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Henry Hyde, opposes a war on Iraq, and would stop at Kabul. If the neo-conservatives want their war on Iraq or a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam, or, since Europe will sit it out, between the U.S.-Israel on one side, and all the rogue states on the State Department list on the other, they should make the case to Congress and the country. For if there was one principle for which the Old Right stood, it was no more presidential wars. No more Koreas. No more Vietnams. No more undeclared wars. This time, let us follow the Constitution as the founding fathers intended, and let the old debate begin anew: America First vs. Global Empire. The Old Republic vs. the New World Order. And let us rediscover what it means to be a conservative. http://www.worldnetdaily.com ------- Friday, October 12, 2001 Pat Buchanan joins WND Presidential candidate swears off politics, relaunches column © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Patrick J. Buchanan, a senior adviser to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000, is swearing off politics and relaunching his popular twice-weekly column in WorldNetDaily. Through an exclusive arrangement with the popular conservative commentator, WorldNetDaily will begin publishing Buchanan's new column on Tuesday and Fridays beginning next week – 24 hours before they are available anywhere else. "I don't always agree with Pat Buchanan, but I am grateful to have him as part of the WorldNetDaily team," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of the leading independent newssite. "WorldNetDaily will be Pat Buchanan's new home base – a broad base with a great deal of ideological diversity among its commentators." Buchanan's column will be syndicated internationally by Creators Syndicate, which partners with WorldNetDaily in the origination of Bill O'Reilly's column and others. >From 1966 through 1974, Buchanan was a confidant and assistant to Richard Nixon, and from 1985 to 1987, director of communications in Ronald Reagan's White House. Buchanan challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination in 1992 and almost upset the president in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996, he won the New Hampshire primary and finished second to Sen. Bob Dole with 3 million Republican votes. Buchanan was born in Washington, educated at Catholic and Jesuit schools, and received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1962. At 23, he became the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in America, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In 1966, Buchanan became the first full-time staff member in the legendary comeback of Richard Nixon. He traveled with the future president in the campaigns of 1966 and 1968, and served as special assistant to the president through the final days of Watergate. On leaving the White House, Buchanan became a columnist and founding father of three of the most enduring – if not endearing – talk shows in TV history: "The McLaughlin Group," and CNN's "Capital Gang" and "Crossfire." In his White House years, Buchanan wrote foreign policy speeches and attended four summits, including Nixon's opening to China in 1972 and Reagan's Reykjavik summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. Buchanan has written six books, including the New York Times best-seller, "A Republic Not an Empire" and a Washington Post best-seller about growing up in the nation's capital, "Right From the Beginning." His newest book, "Death of the West," will be out in January. 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