Submitted by Garrett Gebhardt, Jan 28, 2008 10:57

So you're willing to admit that Ron Paul is without peer in his grasp of monetary policy and how to help our economy yet then dismiss him as naive in foreign policy and worse yet, you dismiss him based on some of his supporters.

I would dismiss so-called antiwar candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama if I were to look at the donations made to them by members of military-industrial complex corporations and their continued votes for funding of the war and renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. I'd dismiss Rudy Giuliani based on his liberal record and his penchant for dressing in drag along with his heavy support from lobbying groups like AIPAC. Giuliani may be very good at certain functions but you should hope he never gets to run a country or the USA PATRIOT Act will look like the Bill of Rights.

I'd dismiss John McCain based on numerous reasons. How about his role in the "Keating Five" during the S&L scandal which he tried to address with the awful McCain/Feingold legislation. Maybe his cover-up of evidence that we left MIAs behind in prison camps in Vietnam which may be related to a purported fifty hours of unflattering propaganda video that the Vietnamese have on him. Perhaps his amnesty immigration stance, which has not changed if you listen to what he's actually saying, or his reverse "Ace" status as a fighter pilot, having crashed five of his OWN planes from poor piloting skill.

Mitt Romney? The man was not a venture capitalist, he was a buyout investor. He's the guy that comes in, buys a company, fires half the staff and sells it off before it goes bankrupt. If he ran a business the way he states his plans to run the United States, that business would be on the pink sheets in no time. Plus he is the cliche of slick politician, changing his views for his intended audience. Do I think he knows anything about foreign policy either, except how NOT to be diplomatic? No.

Mike Huckabee, the preacher who wants to amend the Constitution to fit his values. He will describe them as godly ones, subject of course to his interpretation. Do you not understand the insanity of that notion? The Constitution was designed not to enumerate the rights of the people but to affirm rights bestowed by your creator that the government could not take from you. Huckabee has stolen so many of Ron Paul's lines on other subjects, it's like watching campaign plagiarism. Ask Huckabee if the Commandment is, "Thou shalt not kill... unless they're Islamofascists".

Ron Paul is a candidate with a consistent record and pretending that disengaging from world interventionism is going to make us a weaker country is absurd. Osama Bin Laden was our boy, working for the CIA under the name Tim Osman. Al Qaeda? Do you even know what that means? It means "The Base" which is taken from the CIA database used to track our friends the Islamic Mujahideen we were training and financing. That's right, we created al Qaeda. Do you think that we can stop them by propping up more dictators, sending more foreign aid, buying Sunni insurgents for $10 a day as we're doing in Iraq and continuing to occupy countries where we are hated for doing so? First Sgt. Richard Meiers of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division stated, "We're paying them not to blow us up. It looks good right now, but what happens when the money stops?" We overthrew Iran's Mossadeq, a democratically elected leader, in 1953 and installed the Shah, ensuring the Islamic Revolution in 1979. We went into Vietnam under false pretenses and attempted to keep it from becoming a nation independent from France. We prop up the Saudis and Pakistan's Musharraf. We say we know Saddam Hussein had WMD's and we know this because we have the receipts!

What makes you think any of our interventionism has helped this country? Why do you believe that non-interventionism and a Paul policy of finding and capturing or killing those who engage in terror is less desirable than wholesale, preemptive warfare on sovereign nations? I say, follow the money. Then maybe you can figure out why we're over there and why fighting them the way we're doing now only leads them to come over here.

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