[bnelson44]

Bill Maher’s audience scream for Ron Paul. Case closed.

video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOLYtWLMyw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcorner%2Enationalreview%2Ecom%2F

[Chi-townChief]

I assign Paul to read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for his foreign policy lesson.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

No fan of either, but the more Rudy ducks Paul, the more it makes Rudy look bad.

The really eerie thing about all this is that Rudy is getting exposed

[RichInOC]

Ron, I’m pretty sure that none of the 9/11 guys was from Iraq. Most of them were, in fact, from Saudi Arabia, a country that we have, I’m also pretty sure, never bombed (whether we perhaps should have is another matter). And your point was?

[AmishDude]

Why is Ron Paul ducking my challenge to have him debate me?

Why is Ron Paul cowardly avoiding AmishDude?

What is Ron Paul afraid of?

[JHBowden]

Pearl Harbor decisively refutes Paul’s stupid theory.

As if the disgrace of America leaving the UK to fight the Reich alone isn’t enough refutation of Paul’s America First! non-interventionism.

[heywaitadarnminute]

http://www.chrispeden.org

[HitmanLV]

We all know those persistent ‘smartest guy in the room,’ but despite their intelligence they just can’t seem to convince people of much of anything.

[drpix]

Wonder where Paul is picking up this particlular PR ploy?

[plain talk]

I assign Paul to STFU.

[montag813]

Who is he recommending? Noam Chomsky? There isn’t much difference between he and Paul on the Mideast.

[jonrick46]

I detect that those who advocate for Paul’s candidacy have a hidden agenda: The legalization of drugs.

[thegreatbeast]

I'm not going to vote for Ron Paul (or Rudy for that matter) but Guiliani's jump on Paul's comments was pure theater. Al Qaeda does muster up a rationale for its fatwa against us and they are as Ron Paul stated. I don't give any legitimacy to this rationale but O acknowledge its existence.

One thing that is puzzling me is where and how Rudy transformed his admirable deportment in the 911 aftermath into a profound expertise on national secirity. I just don't see it. He's gotten a rep that he hasn't really earned.

[The_Eaglet]

Thanks for posting this.

[azhenfud]

"to further declare Rudy Giuliani needs to be educated on September 11th when millions of people around the world saw him dealing with these terrorist attacks firsthand is just absurd."

We witnessed Giuliani dealing with the aftermath of those attacks - a huge leap from the experience of dealing with terrorists.

Giuliani disgracefully exploits those attacks for his own political ambitions.

[engrpat]

Suggestion time: why not just stop posting to any Paul post..let them die due to inaction.

[Diago]

Check out the Educating Rudy press conference. Good stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAt6Pf7jZjA

[lvmyfrdm]

You are wasting your time here. Do yourself a favor go to
Alexa and put in Freerepublic for web traffic. You will see that conservatives are leaving this site. Traffic is on steady decline. You will get more thoughtful and reasoned debate on digg. You are not allowed to think
outside the neo-con box here.

[L.N. Smithee]

"He (bin Laden) inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam's holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the Iraqi people as a result of sanctions imposed after the Gulf War," the commission report stated. Paul also cited a 2003 Vanity Fair interview with Paul Wolfowitz in which the then-deputy defense secretary said that U.S. troop presence in Saudi Arabia had been a "huge recruiting device for al Qaeda." "In fact, if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land," Wolfowitz told Vanity Fair.

So let me get this straight: Even though the House of Saud had no problem allowing American forces near Mecca to protect the nation from having its oil fields possessed by Saddam, the USA was supposed to consider the feelings of a terrorist leader that was expelled from the nation?

On top of that, America was supposed to consider the grievances of someone concerned about "the suffering of the Iraqi people as a result of the sanctions imposed after the Gulf War" when the consensus of the U.N. and both the Clinton and Bush administrations were that Saddam was hiding nuclear weapon manufacturing capability in violation of the cease-fire that ended the war?

It would be very interesting to read what Congressman Paul said on the House floor about these things when they were actually happening, and not simply making reference to history books written by bureaucrats with 20/20 hindsight.