I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and believe it was an unconscious omission because to willfully erase the memory of so many hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded is a crime against humanity and history.
Why would Buchanan care about the dead in the Iran-Iraq War? They weren’t white.
Even if you stretch way over backwards to assume that Buchanan meant “Iran hasn’t started a war since the islamic revolution” and thus eliminate the Iran-Iraq War, he’s still wrong. It’s general knowledge that Iran is arming, advising, training, and funding insurgents in Iraq (which is an act of war against Iraq and the United States) and Hezbollah in Lebanon (who are at war with Israel even if Israel tries its hardest to pretend it isn’t at war with them).
