Pardon me for taking so much time to get this up here, but it has been a busy week. This is the most intriguing portion of Monday night's exchange. (This happened in the hour before Hannity and Ollie North were whooping it up for a draft.)
O'REILLY: You wouldn't pull out of Iraq now, would you?
BUCHANAN: I don't think you can right now.
O'REILLY: Okay, good, so we're on the same wavelength there.
BUCHANAN: Right.
O'REILLY: Now in Fallujah, do you agree with me that we have to change tactics and instead of playing the Iraqi political game--although that's important--we've got to protect our own troops here, we can't be having free-fire zones for these so-called insurgents all over the country, right?
BUCHANAN: I agree with the attack on Fallujah and I do agree we've got to protect our troops but I also do agree with those who are concerned that ultimately this is a political war and its going to have to be won politically. We're going to have to get the majority of Iraqis--the overwhelming number of them--on our side and against the terrorists so I think you do have that inhibition in your actions.
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Sorry, but I just don't get this. Why can't we pull out now? The country will fall into a worse disaster than what's there already? And yet somehow there's still a chance we're going to win "overwhelming" support among Iraqis? The only thing definitive the Fallujah attack seems to have done was seal the fate of poor Margaret Hassan.
Maybe Pat will become even more anti-war by suddenly favoring the draft.
What say you, Jeff Tucker?
