Posted on 06/05/2007 2:50:43 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #3 - Manchester, New Hampshire 06/05/07 - Official Discussion Thread
WMUR-TV, CNN, and the New Hampshire Union Leader will host a Republican debate in Manchester, New Hampshire on the campus of Saint Anselm College. Moderated by Wolf Blitzer. Debate begins at 7 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. PDT) and will last two hours.
No truer words were spoken all night.
He was the last of only three candidates mentioned in the news clip about the debate.(McCain and Romney were the other two).Hunter was described as favoring the Southern Border Wall("fence",they called it.)And as criticizing the current administration for not building it more and sooner, and having not done more to curtail illegal immigration.
Probably significant when NPR starts to notice Duncan Hunter.
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Ron Paul Calls the 9-11 Investigation A COVER-UP
You must have heard that from some of the many people who are still lying and trying to smear Ron Paul
Absolutely contemptible
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Ron Paul in Reason magazine
Reason: What did you mean when you told the Scholars that "the [9/11] investigation is an investigation in which there were government cover-ups"?
Paul: I do think there were cover-ups, and I think it was mainly to cover up who was blamed, who's inept. See, they had the information. The FBI had an agent who was very much aware of the terrorists getting flight lessons but obviously not training to be pilots. He reported it 70 times or whatever and it was totally ignored. We were spending $40 billion a year on intelligence. It wasn't a lack of money or a lack of intelligence, it was a lack of the ability to put the intelligence together. Even the administration had been forewarned that something was coming, the CIA had been forewarned. So it was a cover up of who to blame. I see it more that way.
Reason: The position of the Student Scholars is that 9/11 was executed by the U.S. government. Do you agree or disagree with that?
Paul: I'd say there's no evidence of that.
Reason: So what did you mean when you told Student Scholars you'd be open to a new 9/11 investigation?
Paul: Well, I think the more we know about what we went on is good. But I don't think there's any evidence of [an inside job] and I don't believe that. The blame goes to bad policy. And a lot of times bad policy is well-motivated. The people who believe in a one world government are well motivated, but they disagree with me.
If prices for Middle Eastern oil go up, global oil prices will go up. If the supply in the Middle East is restricted, global supply is restricted.
Please - the term police action does not denegrate the troops in any way. That's a cheap shot and you surely know it. Look, my old man was in Korea and Vietnam and he often wished Congress had shat or gotten off the pot. I respect the troops highly - much, MUCH more than the policy-makers. It's Congress and GWB I question, plus the quality of our pre-war intelligence vis-a-vis the WMD. In retrospect, Colin Powell's PowerPoint show at the UN was awfully thin, but I bought into it out of trust in GWB.
Thanks. I also found this.
http://degreeofmadness.typepad.com/degree_of_madness/2006/10/california_rep_.html
Wow! I’m surprised. Really surprised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqwKb4cCsg
Ummmm, yes he did. He left college and joined the Airborne and also earned the Bronze Star.
You have any Bronze Stars?
This is not a police action, it is a real war, a different type of war, and I explained to you why and how we fight it.
Nope, pod'nah. The F16 and F15 are the only F series fighters the Israelis are flying.
I didn’t see Fred kicking butt and taking names on the stage this evening....instead, I saw him in a SOFTBALL interview with Sean Hannity.
I do understand. The value is in knowing how your enemy thinks so you can defeat them on teh batrtlefield and keep from giving them one propaganda coup after another. Pesonally I think “Through Our Enemies’ Eyes” is one of the better reads out there.
>Hunter may speak with pride of his son serving his 3rd tour in Iraq (Afghanistan this tour, tillicum) but did Hunter serve with pride in VietName? (sic) Hmmmm?<
Congressman Hunter served bravely in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers in Viet Nam, winning the bronze star. You have a problem with that?
The major problem is suply and demand which ups the price.
Here in San Diego we have had the highest prices the longest, at times close to $4.00
But I laugh as I never owned a car in my life and take public transortation, did while I worked for several decades, all my errans, etc.
People choose their situations. The folks who want to live in the burbs with their 5 bedrms and 4 baths, etc and commute 50+ extra miles a day, their choice not the oil co.
Very nice post.
Great find. I see his explanation as sufficient. I still see him as a loon however, due to his absurd accusations within his publications since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
We have a tendency to be alarmist when it comes to “foreign monsters”.
I do believe that radical Salafist Islam is “insane”, but I still believe their end goals are the re-establishment of the Caliphate in the Middle East; attacks against the West are a means to an end.
Should FDR have declared war on Germany sooner? Did we declare war on Iraq? Did Iraq declare war on us? I am not sure the situations are analogous except to say that yes, civilians die in war.
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