List of antiwar conservatives - great resource
Here I found at Takimag a great list of quotes (lots of them from a few years ago though) of conservatives who opposed the war, in case we forget there are some:
http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/conservatives_wh...
and here originally
http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/world_events2008/25_conse...
A good thing to send to a prowar Republican.
Like this
1. “What’s really killed the Republican Party isn’t spending, it’s Iraq. As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression.”
--MILTON FRIEDMAN, The Romance of Economics, Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2006
21. “[Saddam Hussein] is a bad guy. He’s a terrible guy and he should go. But I don’t think it’s worth 800 troops dead, 4,500 wounded--some of them terribly-- $200 billion of our treasury and counting, and our reputation and our image in the world, particularly in that region, shattered.”
--GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI, Author Tom Clancy Criticizes Iraq War, AP, May 24, 2004
27. “Considering that I’m writing this from inside the bunker of what many regard as the Alliance of Neocon Warmongers, it bears mentioning that Michael Moore and I have one surprising trait in common: We both believe that the war in Iraq was ill-advised, ill-planned, and ill-executed, an apparent failure bordering on unmitigated disaster, that was never in our best national interest. Around our office over the last two years, I’ve made these arguments to colleagues, open-minded types who, after they put me through my water-boarding/naked pyramid sessions, say they’ll take it under advisement.”
--MATT LABASH, Un-Moored From Reality, The Weekly Standard, July 5/12, 2004
15. “The war on Iraq is a dangerous diversion from the war on al-Qaida. Indeed, an Iraq invasion is likely to inspire retaliatory terrorism from Islamists everywhere. I would prefer to see America’s resources--money, manpower, intelligence services, military might--devoted to crushing the al-Qaida infrastructure, tracking down its operatives and protecting the American homeland from terror assault. Our current anti-terror efforts are pathetically inadequate, as I fear we shall soon see.”
--HEATHER MACDONALD, Who’s for War, Who’s Against It, and Why, Slate, February 19, 2003
9. “We didn’t have a casus belli going in, and that was disturbing to me. Casus belli means that this guy is a threat to our national security, to our vital national interests, or to American lives. I just didn’t see that that was the case. We had Afghanistan happening, and Osama bin Laden is a fellow who needs to meet God sooner or later--preferably with a U.S. bullet in his head--and that was a more pressing matter to me at that time.”
--TOM CLANCY, Charlie Rose Show, May 25, 2005
10. “The Pope has very clearly expressed his thoughts, not only as the thoughts of an individual, but as the thoughts of a man of conscience occupying the highest functions in the Catholic Church. Of course, he has not imposed this position as a doctrine of the Church, but as the appeal of a conscience enlightened by the faith. This judgment of the Holy Father is convincing from a rational point of view also: reasons sufficient for unleashing a war against Iraq did not exist. First of all it was clear from the very beginning that proportion between the possible positive consequences and the sure negative effect of the conflict was not guaranteed. On the contrary, it seems clear that the negative consequences will be greater than anything positive that might be obtained. Without considering then that we must begin asking ourselves whether as things stand, with new weapons that cause destruction that goes well beyond the groups involved in the fight, it is still licit to allow that a ‘just war’ might exist.”
--CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER (Pope Benedict XVI), The Catechism in a Post Christian World, April 2003
NB. There is one quote there from Bob Barr there





















Thank you for this
Thank you for this post....great talking points!
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