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Monday, November 14, 2011

Which Candidate Was Right About Iraq?

Of all the candidates running for the Republican nomination, only one was right – if not prescient – about the big foreign policy issue of the day, namely, the war in Iraq. I speak of course of Congressman Ron Paul. The whole world now knows, as even the CIA has admitted, that the war was based on a lie; there never were any "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the U.S.; Saddam Hussein, as evil as he was, posed no threat to America; and he had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Bin Laden in fact hated Hussein because Iraq was a secular society.

Nor does the neocon chant that the terrorists attacked on 9/11 because "they hate our freedoms" make any sense at all. America was much freer decades ago before it became the fascist police state that it is today, and there were no terrorist attacks back then. The truth is that it is the neocons, with their PATRIOT Act, threats to suspend Habeas Corpus (and even the internet), warrantless wiretaps, internet censorship and spying, and their chant that "9/11 changed everything!" (translation: the hell with the Constitution) who are the real enemies of American freedom.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have believed, and said, that from day one.

Now the question still stands, why are we there?

Anonymous said...

You really don't know the answer to that question?
OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL!!!!
Now you do!

lmclain said...

It goes FAR beyond "oil". Where's the oil in Afghanistan?

Anonymous said...

dugh, if your still believing the lies, then you want to be fooled.

Anonymous said...

If we are there for oil, oil, oil, then why is the price of oil still high. We should be paying like $2.00 a gallon for gas. Lets start sucking that oil up and kick start the economy with cheap Iraqi oil.

Anonymous said...

ron paul is right on alot of issues unfortunately on many others he sounds like a quack!