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Griswold -> RE: Republican Debate in S. Carolina tonight. (5/16/2007 8:12:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
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Ron Paul is done. He literally stated that the United States is to blame for September 11th.
Did he really? Big mistake.
I dont have the exact quote but he said something to the effect that because the US bombed Iraq for 10 years and lead the call for sanctions that it was the reason America was attacked. Giuliani jumped on him, and Paul refused to back down.
Actually, what he was saying (I heard this portion on the radio this morning) was...they're after us because we're in their land.
I heard recently (I'm not enough of a history buff to debate this...so if ya'll want to fight this one...you win) no western country has ever won a war in the Middle East. Add in Russia, and everyone that's gone in to fight the area (not a given country) has been handed their hat on the way out.
These guys don't play by any standard set of rules (not that, in my opinion...anyone should, in war).
Ron Paul was basically saying they want our heads because we're shitting in their back yard.
The Dems or course are irresponsible as to their demands of a timeline. Anyone with 3 neurons left knows that's a meal ticket to 6 feet under...but as poor a candidate as Ron Paul may be...he was right...they're killing us, in multiple countries...because they want us gone.
Would they kill us anyway(?)...well...Isreal gave away a bunch land that was supposed to stop all the screaming, and Hamas said some months back (after of course they agreed that the Palestinian settlement would absolve past all sins) "we are at war with Isreal....any past agreements are null and void"...yeah they'd kill us anyway....but they didn't prior to 1993 World Trade Center bombing (invasion of Kuwait was in 1991).
But that ain't what Ron Paul said...he effectively said that our involvement in the Middle East exacerbated (at minimum), and probably caused these attacks.
Should we not have gone in to Kuwait? Fuck no....but Gulliani turned what Ron Paul said...into something the question (and comment) never was.
Ya know...when Clinton was first interviewed about the Lewinski thing...he was asked a very simple question: "Are you having sex with that woman?"
His answer was brilliant, and one whose carefully crafted fine points were never caught by the media.
He said "I am not having sex with that woman".
And at that exact moment...unless Monica was just below the sight line of my TV (and wasn't getting kicked in the teeth by Hillary sitting just inches from Bill)...he didn't lie. He wasn't (at that moment) having sex with that woman.
Ron Paul has been lambasted by the press today...for things he never said, and very likely for things never intended when he said them.
People that have opinions bred for them, as determined by TV, newspapers and other dubious outlets who have a specific agenda that deviates from the truth, deserve to have their news spoon fed to them.
(And for those who plan on voting this coming election...please do your own homework, and don't parrot some moron on the radio or TV simply because you're too lazy to think for yourself).
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