Jeff Duncan: “in this week's Conservative Chronicle, William F. Buckley has a column entitled ``Day has come to Exit Iraq.'' He refers…”

“in this week's Conservative Chronicle, William F. Buckley has a column entitled ``Day has come to Exit Iraq.'' He refers to the U.S. casualty figures, now over 1,600 dead and 11,000 wounded, and we continue to lose about 50 dead a month, and says, ``Moreover, the Iraqi deaths have increased substantially since the national election in January.'' Mr. Buckley writes, ``We are entitled to say to ourselves: If the bloodletting is to go on, it can do so without our involvement in it.'' He adds, ``The day has come where we say that our part of the job is done as well as it can be done. It is Iraq's responsibility to move on to wherever Iraq intends to go.'' Of course, several months ago, Mr. Buckley said that if he known in 2002 what he knows now, he never would have supported the war in Iraq in the first place. These words are from William F. Buckley, a man author Lee Edwards described as the ``godfather'' of the conservative movement. There never was anything conservative about the war in Iraq. I said from the start that it would mean massive foreign aid, huge deficit spending, and that it was not far to place almost all the entire burden of enforcing U.N. resolutions on our taxpayers and our military. Conservatives have traditionally been the biggest critics of the U.N., and the worst part of all, of course, is all the deaths. All to bring do not an evil man, but one whose military budget was 2/ 10ths of 1 percent of ours and who was no threat to us whatsoever.…”