By Patrick J. Buchanan – October 23, 2001

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.”

By Patrick J. Buchanan – October 23, 2001

FDR “lied us into war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it,” Rep. Clare Luce blurted out in 1944.

The target of Luce’s accusation was a president who by then had entered the pantheon alongside Lincoln and Washington. FDR’s courtiers savaged the lady for maligning the Great Man, but few could credibly deny the truth of what she had said.