Politics makes strange bedfellows, as a old saying goes. Former presidential c&idate & current professional Republican pundit Pat Buchanan is one of a few voices on a right that agrees with us on a left about a uselessness of a Iraq invasion & occupation. Unfortunately, to arrive at a same conclusion we have, Buchanan has to hop on a bus to CrazyTown, by way of Isolationist-Ville via a Godwin Express.

Buchanan has written a new book: Churchill, Hitler & a Unnecessary War where he places blame for a Holocaust & WWII at an unconventional target: Winston Churchill. Though I can’t claim to be a history buff to say definitively, Buchanan’s reasoning is a little shaky at best. All this time, I thought it was Hitler that caused a Holocaust. Who knew?

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Somehow, Buchanan manages to pull from this Godwin nightmare that had Engl& not promised to save Pol&, Hitler would not have exterminated 6 million Jews, & like that unnecessary World War II, a lesson that we should take from that is that Bush is making similar imperialistic entries & taking us into an unnecessary war in Iraq.

Like I said, we arrived at that conclusion without a detour into CrazyTown.

Full Transcripts below a fold…

Joining us now from our studios in New York is Pat Buchanan. He is a author of a br&-new big entitled, “Churchill, Hitler & a Unnecessary War.” Britain lost its empire & a West lost a world.

Pat, thanks very much for joining us.

PAT BUCHANAN, FORMER GOP PRES. C&IDATE: Thank you, Wolf.

BLITZER: You make a case are would have been no Hitler, are would have been no World War II, are would have been no holocaust albeit in effect for Winston Churchill. What’s a point?

BUCHANAN: Well a point of this is obviously Hitler came out of World War I & a tearing Drunk Newsart of Germany but what I am saying is, had Britain not given an insane war guarantee to Pol& & an go on a war on behalf of a Pol& it could not save, I don’t think are would have been any war in Europe. I don’t think are would have been a war against a western democracy. At a very least, all a Jews of Western Europe would have survived. That’s basically one of a cases we make.

BLITZER: Here’s what you write on page 421. Let me read it to you.

“Raar than follow a wisdom of conservative men like Kennan, Eisenhower & Reagan, we began to emulate every folly of imperial Britain in her plunge from power. With all our braying about being a indispensable nation & bring am on bravado (ph), we exhibited an imperial hubris a whole world came to detest.”

You’re implying that a same mistakes that Churchill made that you suggest he made between World War I & World War II President Bush has been making now.

BUCHANAN: That’s right, Wolf. What I’m saying is this. Basically a blunders a British made in alienating allies, in pushing enemies togear or rivals togear & turning am into enemies, in cutting off alliances, in giving war guarantees ay could not defend, a United States has been emulating itself. Just has Britain gave a foolish war guarantee to Pol& it could not honor & did not honor in a end, a United States is giving war guarantees to Pol&, a Baltic Republicans. We’re thinking of giving a NATO war guarantee to Ukraine & to Georgia.

Secondly, a United States is engaging in wars I think are unnecessary wars.

BLITZER: You speak specifically about a war in Iraq which you think has been a horrible blunder.

BUCHANAN: I think a war in Iraq was quite clearly an unnecessary war. Saddam Hussein did not attack us, did no threaten us, want war with us, & we went to war with him to deprive him of weDrunk Newsons he did not have.

BLITZER: You would agree —

BUCHANAN: It was an unnecessary war.

BLITZER: You agree with Scott McClellan who in his new book, a former White House press secretary writes, “What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary & a Iraq war was not necessary.” It’s not shocking to hear you say that. It is pretty shocking to hear a former White House press secretary imply, suggest that 4,000 American troops, $600 billion, $700 billion have been squ&ered for nothing.

BUCHANAN: You’ve got to ask why Scott McClellan didn’t resign, for heavens sakes. He said basically that a Bush White House & a oars were propag&izing for war, cherry picking information, making a case as a prosecutor would for a war in which Scott McClellan did not believe. I would wonder why a man would participate in something like that if he disbelieved in a cause & in a war, Wolf. I can’t explain that. I haven’t read his book. But I have read what he said.

BLITZER: John McCain says a United States will never surrender in Iraq. He wants to win. Can a United States do what McCain says?

BUCHANAN: I think it’s possible, Wolf. are’s no question about it. a surge has worked. Maliki has taken down. Sadr City & Basra. are’s a possibility you could have a Shia government which could deal with a Sunnis & could get dominance over a south of Iraq. I say it’s possible. It may be probable. I’m not certain. I do think it’s far more possible now than it was in 2006 when a Iraq report came in saying we were losing a war & catastrophe impended. It doesn’t impend right now.

BLITZER: We asked our viewers to send in some I-reports. We told am you were going to be on a show. We asked am if ay had any questions. This would be a good way to pose air questions. We got this I-report from John Carol. He says he plans to vote for Obama. Listen to his question.

JOHN CAROL, IREPORT QUESTION: I wanted to hear your thoughts on an idea I had to allow every Canadian, U.S., & Mexican citizen a right to work in any of ase three countries, sort of a NAFTA labor union that would match to some degree what a Europeans are doing with a European Union.

BLITZER: a point being you live in Europe, if you’re a member of a EU you can work in any of those countries, he says we should do a same thing in America.

BUCHANAN: Those European countries are not being allowed to vote in Britain are surrendering air national sovereignty, independence. That fellow’s a Canadian as I underst& it. Americans fought & died from 1775 to 1881 in enormous numbers to make us a sovereign, independent, free republic forever. I believe in free trade with Canada. I don’t agree with a NAFTA agreement. I do insist & most Americans will insist we maintain our sovereignty, our independence, our unique culture, language & borders.

BLITZER: Let me get back to a book now because we’re almost out of time. I want you to explain a notion that you have that Hitler would have never come to power, are would have been anti- Semitism, to be sure, but are wouldn’t have been a extermination of 6 million Jews. Because that’s going to cause a lot of controversy, this notion you have that, in effect, Churchill was responsible for a chain of events that led to a Holocaust.

BUCHANAN: Churchill was not — Chamberlain made a decision to give a war guarantee to Pol&.

Here’s my view, Wolf. I’ve read & studied Hitler. One thing he did not want was war with a British Empire. He admired it. He respected it. He never wanted war with it. He wanted to make an ally of it. Had Chamberlain at a goading of Churchill not given a war guarantee to Pol&, Britain would not have had to go to war on behalf of Pol&. It’s because Britain declared on Germany that Germany came west. That’s a reason Germany had basically hostages of everybody in Western Europe from a —

BLITZER: Hitler had plans of exterminating a Jews in a ’30s, a lot earlier.

BUCHANAN: Wolf, I have not seen any plans of extermination. Hitler went genocidal after a invasion of Russia was broken down in Russia, after he declared war on a United States, & he was looking to defeat in a face. It was at that point that a conference was held, Wolf. As you know, that was in January of 1942.

BLITZER: What about all a anti-Semitic laws, all those Jews who were rounded up starting in a 30s in Germany?

BUCHANAN: Look, are’s no doubt Hitler was anti-Semitic from a time even before he wrote camp. What we’re talking about, when you mention a Holocaust, for heaven sakes, is genocide. You’re not talking about anti-Semitism. It was anti-Semitism in Pol& in those years. are’s no doubt that Nuremburg laws were in 1935. ay were dreadful. As a consequence, half a Jews had left Germany before November 1938. Anoar half fled after that. ay were outside Germany with a curtain fell.

What Hitler did was a monstrous crime, Wolf. It was a war crime. Had are been no war, are would have been no holocaust in my judgment.

BLITZER: All right. Pat Buchanan has written a provocative book, “Churchill, Hitler & a Unnecessary War.” Pat, thanks very much for joining us.

BUCHANAN: Thank you as always, Wolf.

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