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To: weegee
(unless Ron is a truther who believes WE did it to ourselves)

Paul is studiously ambiguous on that point.

He says that he has "seen no evidence" that the US deliberately plotted 9/11, but that the investigation into 9/11 should be reopened, and that there is a "real danger" that the US will manufacture terrorist attacks in the future.

In other words, Paul says just enough to convince Truthers that he is one of them, but never enough to remove all doubt.

7 posted on 08/31/2007 6:01:45 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
In his own words:

From the Candidate's Debate on 5/15/07

When Ron Paul was asked about whether American foreign policy provoked the 9/11 attack, Mr. Paul, a libertarian, said that the 9/11 attack happened "because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years..."

From the Human Events Interview on 8/2/07

Human Events: You’re saying overthrowing Mossadegh in 1953 and putting in the Shah led to the hostage-taking and 9/11?

Ron Paul: Absolutely.

Human Events: In other words, the militant fundamentalist regime took revenge on us for overthrowing the secular left-of-center regime in ’53?

Ron Paul: There is always some militant-violent-jihadist looking to rally that faction, but they have to have incentives. The incentive is when we impose our will on them and we get involved in their internal politics. Besides, it contradicts everything the Founders theorized, and there’s no constitutional authority for us to march around the world undermining different governments.

For this apologist viewpoint alone, Ron Paul should never be President. Never. You who may be his constituents know him better and perhaps he is useful in Congress, but I haven't heard anything about him to make him stand out there.

10 posted on 08/31/2007 6:41:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: wideawake
(unless Ron is a truther who believes WE did it to ourselves)

Paul is studiously ambiguous on that point. He says that he has "seen no evidence" that the US deliberately plotted 9/11

Nonsense. When asked outright if he believed the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks, he answered "Absolutely not." You spend enough time on these threads to be aware of that fact, yet you come on here and immediately post this lie. He is not a truther, and he is not ambiguous about it.

and that there is a "real danger" that the US will manufacture terrorist attacks in the future.

More nonsense. He said no such thing.

65 posted on 08/31/2007 11:30:00 PM PDT by JTN (‘We achieve much more in peace than…unconstitutional, undeclared wars’ - Dr. Paul)
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To: wideawake

What he has sais is that a new investigation would show is typical big-government ineptitude and masmanagement, but he does not believe that anybody excect terrorists brought the plane down. In fact he’s the only politician I’ve heard refer to them as “Saudi terrorists.”


91 posted on 09/01/2007 9:26:34 AM PDT by AndreaThorn (The dogs of war don't negotiate......)
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