Pat Buchanan has gone ahead and apologized for Hitler, claiming he sought no empire or wider war with Europe, and had merely benign interests of German unification at heart:

Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally. As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia?

Included in the many historical inaccuracies in the article, he went so far as to blame the Holocost on the ALLIES, stating “Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps.”

After Hitler conquered Poland, he HAD the border with Russia.  Hitler stated many times his ambitions to continue the war and the "expansion of the German Empire".

THIS is the person that previously ran for President?  THIS is the respected Repbulican leader?  THIS is someone who's paid for his political commentary?  If he can't even research historical facts and speeches to get something this well documented correct, why is anyone listening to him?

This is the same man who asked by Rachel Maddow why it was that 108 out of the 110 United States Supreme Court justices have been white, stated:

I think white men were 100% of the people who wrote the constitution, 100% of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country basically built by white folks.

So because minorities were oppressed throughout history, white men somehow deserve to be the Supreme Court justices.  I don't know.  I can't follow the thinking there.

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