U.S. candidate Paul assigns reading to Giuliani (Washington Post)

The Washington Post ^ | May 24, 2007 | Andy Sullivan

[Captain Kirk]

Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East.

"I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack of books that included the report by the commission that examined the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

Giuliani was mayor of New York when Islamic militants slammed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, a role that has vaulted him to the front of the Republican presidential pack despite his liberal social positions.

"I don't think he's qualified to be president," Paul said of Giuliani. "If he was to read the book and report back to me and say, 'I've changed my mind,' I would reconsider."

Paul advocates a limited U.S. foreign policy, including an end to the war in Iraq and a reduction in troop levels abroad.

Paul said he was unfairly attacked during last week's debate by 10 Republican presidential hopefuls, when Giuliani dismissed his contention that U.S. policies in the Middle East had contributed to the attacks in New York and Washington.

[Sam Gamgee]

Ron isn’t fit to sodomize Rosie.

[Fred]

Dude, he is so on board with abortion. Obvious to the most casual observer. So casually observe.

[jrooney]

"You're defending a POS" (you posted)

"so you resort to name-calling and ad-hominems" (you posted)

Pot meet Kettle. I figured you two should both meet since neither of you has a clue.

[Fred]

ok, you want to post go ahead. Need clarification.

Please explain to me how saying RG is pro-abort is defending him?? I am baffled by your posts to me.

[Dead Corpse]

However, they wouldn't prove so useful against foes who have RPGs today.

No. But Individual privately owned firearms would have prevented 9-11 if the government wasn't so hell bent on restricting the un-infringable Right out of existence.

[NoobRep]

Ron Paul doesn’t want to fight terrorism. He wants to bury his head in the sand and wish them away. He advocates a defeatist strategy that embodies stupidity, ignorance, cowardice and appeasement. His isolationist delusional policy is as bad as Jimma Carter’s. His problem is that he thinks inside every one of these bad guys that there’s a good guy waiting to come out if we just reason with them. So again, Ron Paul=Jackass. Good day sir.

[Remember_Salamis]

To top it off, Rudy's spokesman said that Rudy did not need to respond because he was mayor during 9/11. Rudy's level of arrogance is just amazing.

Did you know that he was mayor during 9/11?

[Remember_Salamis]

That’s probably why Rudy never read the 9/11 Commission Report — too busy trying on women’s clothes, I suppose...

[Remember_Salamis]

Yes, we were invited into Saudi and Kuwait, but al-Qaida both sees them as apostate regimes.

[P-40]

Ron Paul opposes the US holding rogue states accountable

He does? Have you let him know that?

[Remember_Salamis]

And Rudy wandering around the streets of Manhattan after the towers were hit makes him qualified???

He seems to think so. His PR person said that today.

[Remember_Salamis]

I would classify Blackwater Security and Triple Canopy as military professionals.

mercs can go in and work w/o ROEs as well; do whatever they want to get the job done.

[Remember_Salamis]

Look at the list of terror attacks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents

Nobody else is even close in the number of dead. I haven't figured it out percentage wise, but Israel is above us as a % of their population.

[Remember_Salamis]

"BUT, our constitution doesn’t account for a psychotic death cult that will rule the world or kill us all. It really isn’t a suicide pact."

We should shred it then.

[Remember_Salamis]

"If it wasn't for Privateers, the US wouldn't exist."

Amen to that. Check this paper out -- it documents the private funding of American warships in our early years. Merchant interests built warships and GAVE THEM to the US Navy. Amazing!

http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/sechrest12.pdf

[Remember_Salamis]

In all those places you mentioned, all of those groups are a political threat to Islamists; that's why they are attacking them.

Of course, it does not justify their actions, and the presence of terrorists in the PI is grossly overstated.

[RichardMoore]

That movie ran without adds and was excellent. The Clintons tried to get it changed because it pointed out how lame they are.

But the real kicker now is this.Do you recall Alexandr Litvinenko? He was poisoned by the KGB/FSB last November. He claimed that al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's #2 man is really a KGB/FSB agent. So just who are we fighting these days?

[Remember_Salamis]

Just say "No" to Benito!

I'd prefer an affable democrat like Richardson over a gun-grabbing infanticidal closet fascist like Giuliani.

I see polls that say Republicans support him, overwhelmingly, but I have never met one, nor do I see any posts by them.

What's the deal?

[Remember_Salamis]

"His problem is that he thinks inside every one of these bad guys that there’s a good guy waiting to come out if we just reason with them."

That's total bullsh*t. Paul is against picking fights with additional enemies. He wants to attack those who attacked us and achieve just retribution for 9/11. That's it.

[DesScorp]

When Great Leader Ron speaks, all must obey.