Have a nice day!

Buchanan’s key point- that we should treat him just like Qadaffi of Libya is spot on.

No, because Iran’s government is much more adept and malevolently bent, and is in a position to do more harm to US-Western interests (oil & Israel) in the Middle East — and Iran sponsors terrorism world-wide.

As far as his speech-making goes, if Chavez can be a clown, so can Ahmadinnerjacket. He actually is very offensive, rarely so stupid as to be funny, and so many shrill defenders of his speaking (who have mischaracterized ironically those opposed to the speech at Columbia, while being hypocritical with their typical political correctness) may claim the moral high ground when all they want is to hear an opponent of Bush, the USA, the war, and Israel insult those parties, or simply confuse true freedom of speech (expression) with a demand that they be able to do, or enjoy, whatever they want, especially if it is deliberately offensive. (One may also question Columbia’s motives, in that it may have a practice of deliberately seeking controversy to put itself in the news.)

I can confidently write off nearly all the crowing about the triumph of free speech here — nobody predicted exactly what the guy would have said, and the shrill PC set simply got lucky the guy simply gaffed. Oh, and the “introduction” given by the president did happen to be offensive (as well as dishonest — it was not introductory, but polemic).

buchanan has never seen a fascist dictator he didn’t love.

he was showing us that he gains strength when we give him the Big Boogey Man status instead of treating him like the penny ante dictator that he really is.

You miss the point. Giving Iran’s little midget dictator a platform in America doesn’t treat him like a penny ante dictator, it gives him stature.

But, you seem like you would rather live in fear of the great Islamo-fascist world takeover, lol—I guess I’d better take my burka out of mothballs. The message from some on the right is- be afraid- be very afraid.

If you think its a joke, just visit some parts of Europe where there are literally enclaves of islamic communities where sharia rules and where police dare not tread.

But, you seem like you would rather live in fear of the great Islamo-fascist world takeover, lol—I guess I’d better take my burka out of mothballs. The message from some on the right is- be afraid- be very afraid.

At this moment in time I’m more afraid of our reactionary leadership and their easily manipulated followers than of Ahmadinejad and his petty hatreds.

Stop reading the talking points and putting everyone who doesn’t want another war we cannot win in the lefty camp.

It’s also ironic how once liberals correctly reviled buchanan for his biggotry now find common cause with him in appeasement of islamic fascists. You deserve each other.

Buchanan’s key point- that we should treat him just like Qadaffi of Libya is spot on. In one situation we isolated and inflated our enemy- in the other we engaged and were able to negotiate an end to an enemy’s nuclear weapons program. Which has been a more effective policy????

Pat Buchanan