Posted on 11/10/2007 11:28:18 AM PST by LSUfan
I have scanned in the Ron Paul materials I quoted from here last night. I have contacted the moderators here at Free Republic to see about getting the PDFs posted online somehow, but have not heard back. I also emailed LittleGreenFootballs and offered the PDFs to them but have not heard back.
The materials are in 4 PDFs--HUGE files. I hope they can be emailed, but I don't know.
If anyone has any advice on how to get these things up so EVERYONE on Free Republic can judge for themselves, please contact me through Free Republic.
A concerned Marine veteran.
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I do not have any way to post them online.
I just tried that. They won’t take PDFs. The file must have a “valid image extension” such as gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp. These end in pdf.
Anybody-able-to-help-out-this-good-fellow-FReeper? PING!
Will your scanner allow you to save these documents as .jpgs? If so, I would recommend doing that and uploading them to Photobucket or Flickr and either posting the links and placing them here via HTML.
Of course, I'm not really good at stuff like this and usually end up asking advice myself.
Good luck!
If all else fails, you might fax them to someone who can upload them.
how about upload2.net
NARRATOR: The American 1st Infantry Division had the job of storming the trenches to clear a path for the tanks. To avoid hand-to-hand fighting, they planned to bury the Iraqi defenders alive.
Col. LON MAGGART, 1st Infantry Division: A thought occurred to me, we could actually use these plows to fill in the trenches. In fact, I had tested it myself. I got down in the ditch myself and had two tanks plow towards me, just to see what it did.
I learned several things and one is I learned that it happens very quickly, so the defender has a choice to make, but he has to make it very quickly. He can either give up and hop out of the trench, he can try to run down the trench and get away, but he better do those quickly because these things move at amazing speed down there.
NARRATOR: Along the Iraqi border ran a sand barrier, a berm. Beyond that lay five miles of minefields and then the Iraqi trenches.
1st U.S. SOLDIER: We got the first one, first berm in a minute.
2nd U.S. SOLDIER: That's real good. The second one's a tougher one.
NARRATOR: Armored bulldozers and tanks fitted with plows broke through the berm and moved on to the trenches. Eighteen-year-old Joe Queen drove one of the lead bulldozers.
JOE QUEEN: What we did is we just took the dirt that the Iraqi soldiers had dug out_ we just pushed that dirt right back into the trench. You could just look at the man's eyes and see fear. You know, you see him scared. You know, you're looking at a man's_ the whites of his eyes as you're going through in the trench with this bulldozer, covering in the trench.
And they were firing at the bulldozer and the first bullet that hit the blade, that made me know then, "Hey, look. This is for real. There's no game. Those are real bullets and a bullet would kill you."
NARRATOR: After the war, press accounts reported thousands of Iraqis were buried. Most independent analysts estimate it was just hundreds. The Army says it was about 150.
JOE QUEEN: You don't think about, "Hey, what about this guy? What about that guy?" He had a chance to get out. He had every opportunity to get out and he took the way to die for his country, just like any American would.
NARRATOR: By the end of the ground war's first day, all of Schwarzkopf's horses were on the attack.
Gen. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF: I went to bed that night very satisfied with the fact that the campaign plan was unfolding and that_ that it looked like we were going to have a terrific success and_ you know, and accomplish everything we wanted to accomplish.
NARRATOR: In Washington that Sunday, President Bush had received little news. If there were heavy U.S. casualties, it could finish him politically and could even stop the war.
RICHARD CHENEY, Secretary of Defense: I got briefed just before I went into the church. The president was right ahead of me. I passed him a note that said, "Mr. President, things are going very well." We all went back to the White House. I got out a map from Time magazine, just sort of showing exactly what was happening, and I was able to tell him there that things were going extraordinarily well.
We had assumed that the toughest part of the ground war, in terms of casualties, would have been the early hours of that conflict and, in fact, what we were finding was that the air war had been enormously effective and decimated the Iraqi forces and that they, in fact, were collapsing in front of us.
NARRATOR: But in Riyadh the allied commander was having a bad morning.
Further, the Jewish support Helms received in the 1984 election cycle was directly linked to Jewish groups associated with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Helms trip to Israel in 1985 was led by Falwell, and was received by Ariel Sharon in Israel.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/2803
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54895469.html
I read the article on the bulldozers. It is indistinguishable from contemporary comments made by Fisk and Ramsey Clark. In fact, Ramsey Clark tried to get Bush I indicted for war crimes for that and other similar actions.
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Thanks for posting these. I wanted to see them for myself. My first impression is that the newsletters are a trivial medium (ie a kind of talk-o-the-town gossipy medium) for addressing serious issues. Not the appropriate tone, but akin to today’s blogs.
They struck me as an odd kind of hit-and-run thing for a Congressman to be publishing, and in fact, it seems they were published during his hiatus from office, 1984-1996. Probably something to keep his name in folks minds in his district I don’t offer this as an excuse, just a guess at their amatuerish tone compared to his speeches, essays, etc, that you see at his Congrssional site.
Jessie Helms, Ron paul notes
in 1984 Israeli PACs and associated wealthy businessmen helped bankroll Helm’s expensive reelection campaign against former governor Jim Hunt.. Part of the Israeli effort to ally with Evangelicals.
Interestingly the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, an anti-Israel publication reports
As a result, the Israel lobby invested perhaps one of the country’s biggest campaign contributions per capita in an attempt to unseat Jesse Helms. Pro-Israel political action committees poured an astonishing $222,342 into the campaign of Helms’ opponent, North Carolina Governor James Hunt. Hunt’s campaign secretary proclaimed that “Senator Helms has the worst anti-Israel record in the United States Senate and supporters of Israel throughout the country know it.”
Fair to say one of them’s wrong, though to a certain brand of Israel critic it doesn’t matter if donations went to Helms or Hunt, things can be spun either way.
On the bash of Dole and Kemp for supporting the closing of the PLO offices in the US, it’s worth noting he also praised Matti Peled, a member of the Israeli Knesset for opposing the bill.
Matti Peled was elected as a member of the Progressive List for Peace, a small party who elected 2 candidates in the 1980s. The party was, in fact, banned on the basis of negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people over their support for either a one state solution, or a “right of return” to Israel for all Arabs. The Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ban.
Interesting, the “true Republican” attacks Dole and Kemp, and lauds the Israeli extreme left.
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