By Bernie
Quigley
For The Hill
on 3/22/13
Ten years
after the invasion of Iraq the only prominent loyalists are Weekly Standard’s
William Kristol and his neocon posse. Interestingly, all the prominent papers
and media like the Washington Post and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer which
followed like a flock of pigeons have ten-years later demurred. They should
clear the decks now and retreat in infamy.
Peggy Noonan
asks today in the Wall Street Journal if the Republican Party can recover from
Iraq. Partially. We start again with the Pauls. The better question is can
America recover. Yes, but a new America – Rand Paul’s, Judge Andrew Napolitano’s
and even Sarah Palin’s has already emerged. And at CPAC 2013 this month it
established dominance.
The optional
questions here are: Can the Bush apparatus survive? Can Israel? The
conservative establishment and its MSM sycophants push New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie today as the stealth candidate for Jeb Bush. It is absolutely imperative
for the third Bush, who made such vague impressions at CPAC 2013, to take the
presidency in 2016, or as VP behind Christie, to legitimize the nefarious
failure of press, Congress, the people and George W. Bush in his ill-fated and immoral invasion of
Iraq. Without Jeb, the family legacy is lost.
But the
Bush/Rove Popular Front is not holding up. The more lasting symptom of the
tragic events is the rumor that Israel pulls the strings of the American state
department and it was Israel which instigated the invasion. But the influence
of American sympathizers for Israel occurred just as Israel itself was entering
a quantum shift in consciousness due to its fraught relationship with America
going back to Carter, the Clinton administration and the Oslo Accords. Moshe
Feiglin, who was sentenced to prison for civil disobedience in opposition to
the Oslo Accords, proposed in 2001 that Israel could never be a true state
under obtrusive American influence. He called then for cutting off from
American military aid. This year he was elected to the Knesset and following
this election, a “Second Zionist Revolution” is occurring with a new generation
of Israelis, bringing greater distance from American dominance.
Will America
survive or be broke to pieces? All 50 states have recently registered secession
requests with the federal government. They started in Vermont in 2003 in
opposition to the Bush invasion. Europe broke and lost its soul in WW I after
being railroaded into a tragic war. But Europe is 2000 years old and America is
200 years old. And it is not entirely clear if it has fully been born yet.
Writing on
the Mexican War, U.S. Grant wrote, “We were sent to provoke a fight . . .”
“Once initiated
there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it.” And
experience proved to him that “the man who obstructs a war in which his nation
is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in
life or history.”
Conservatives
should turn to its governors now, especially in the big states, as they had no
stake in the fight and can begin the world again from scratch. Especially those
who conform to the new thinking – “states rights, sound money, constitutional
government” – because it is the pure legacy of political awakened.
Conservatives
should look to Texas Governor Rick Perry, who shook the walls at CPAC; a “man
ahead of his times” says the National Journal this week. Perry was there first
with the new thinking and his book, “Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington”
has become the handbook for action in both liberal and conservative states –
states like Michigan where the legislature has voted to nullify NDAA.
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