Posted on 12/09/2011 10:14:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq.
"Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq," the Texas Republican told a group of mostly young backers in Iowa. He went on to suggest officials are now setting the stage for an invasion of Iran.
Paul, who was tied for second in this week's CBS News/New York Times poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers, is making a strong push in the Hawkeye state in hopes of scoring an upset victory in the first-in-the-nation January 3 caucuses. Paul volunteers have been working to convince Paul's mostly young supporters - many of whom will be on holiday break from college when the caucuses take place - to be sure to make it to their caucus site.
Paul's libertarian views - on the foreign policy front, he wants to dramatically reduce the U.S. military presence abroad and end all foreign aid - put him at odds with many Republican voters. A poll from Gallup this week found that 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters see Paul as an unacceptable nominee.
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True.
And the military plans invasions almost everywhere. That's their freaking job.
This wasn't just another theoretical scenario. Bush wanted a reason to go into Iraq -- rightly or wrongly -- even before 9/11.
And http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/ are a bunch of COMMUNISTS.
I already knew the info on that page from other sources and it was accurate. "The Committee for Liberation of Iraq" was real, and the roster and timing are accurate. Take your pick of sources on it here.
"None of this means taht Bush was happy about 9/11."
Agreed. I think that RP's point was that they were happy to have an excuse to do what they already wanted to do re Iraq even though it had nothing to do with 9/11, was valid. But Ron Paul's choice of words -- "gleeful" -- was stupid. Then again, the press always look for the most outrageous quote they can get from Ron Paul for a headline, and he always inadvertently gives them one.
Actually, Dr. Demento’s point was to make absolutely sure that everyone knew he hates this country.
Let’s see how he polls when the Paulbots aren’t spamming polls, as we all know they do.
I’ll take a patriotic Aggie yell-leader over a leftist, America-blaming, Code Pink Infowars fan any day.
An obvious, intense dislike of Israel and utter ignorance of Islamic teachiings and goals are NOT “rough edges” that will “smooth out” - they are a profound danger to our country.
And that little goblin wants the GOP nomination? Not likely. The first GOP candidate that wouldn't get my vote.
I know what ya mean.
Seriously, I read a lot of Solzhenitsyn, Huxley, and Orwell when I was young -- I'm aware of how black can get turned into white, up into down, wrong into right, just by giving in to group-think instead of thinking for yourself. But the latter too has its price.
Group think is one thing I'll never be accused of.
Thanks again for the links.
What you said!
Just be advised, some are more concerned with silencing others for whatever reasons, rather than doing research and actually examining facts. However, I will say a better definition or wording should have been used to describe intentions of those involved prior to 911.
The man is a fruitcake, believes we are responsible for 9/11, believes the Bush administration allowed this to happen so they could invade Iraq, that they were gleeful and ecstatic that 3,000 Americans were killed, happy along with the military that so many were dead, so we could lie our way in to the war.
The man is crazy, literally certifiable when he goes on like this, and so is someone like you (you should be grown up enough to know better) who supports him in his insanity.
Sorry, they are crazy.
I have no idea what little voices in your head were telling you all of this Lakeshark but you didn't get this from listening to him.
He has never said that "we are responsible for 9/11" -- the US government isn't "we" -- I don't make those decisions and nor do you. He has said flawed foreign policy created blow-back which led to 9/11 -- and even the 9/11 Report and the Bush Administration believed that blowback theory enough to shutdown our base in Saudi Arabia right afterward. All true.
He believes the Bush administration allowed this to happen so they could invade Iraq, that they were gleeful and ecstatic that 3,000 Americans were killed, happy along with the military that so many were dead, so we could lie our way in to the war.
He never ever said that "the Bush Admin allowed this to happen" -- that's a lie-- or that "they were happy 3,000 were dead or happy along with the military that so many were dead" -- he said (agreed poor choice of words) that the Administration was "gleeful" that they now had a reason that they could use to do what they wanted to do all along -- go into Iraq. The rest you are just making up for effect.
What part of our policies led to 9/11 don't you understand? That's the liberal mantra, that's the same crap we heard from them for 6 years, hell, we still hear it, and you and your fruitcake candidate still push the meme.
If you want to believe in "blowback theory" go right ahead, but that's the kind of crap that oozes out of liberal crevices, the kind of crap they say is tasty and "real", the kind of asinine thought processes that are ruining our country.
Frankly, to believe that kind of crap means you are certifiable and should post on DU or KOS rather than FR.......actually you probably do......what's your screen name?
I will second that.
How is Rumsfelds memoir ?
I started Cheney’s a month ago and then got busy with other things and am ready to start where I left off.
Definitely not trust RuPaul ~ UGH
Goes for me, too.
And I’m not a Perry supporter.
Ummmmmm......
My last post should have read:
Goes for me, too.
And I’m not even a Perry supporter.
I agree 100%.
I don't hate them, but I hate their anti-American and anti-military views.
The more I hear about Rpaul (and I’ve really tried not to hear/read much), the more I hold him in utter abhorrence. He’s nuts, he’s mental, he’s odious, he’s a hypocrite, he’s anti-Semitic, he’s pro-fag, he’s attracted to dung in the shape of humans, etc.
“He’s nuts, he’s mental, he’s odious, he’s a hypocrite, he’s anti-Semitic, he’s pro-fag, he’s attracted to dung in the shape of humans, etc.”
You know it, buddy!
Did they all take drugs? Are they all living with their parents in the basement?
I just watched the interview with him on CBS, plus his latest madness about how gleeful everyone was that they could invade Iraq.
The Paul bots say it was a "poor choice of words". I say it's a window into the poor man's shriveled mind. He's truly a fruitcake, anyone who doesn't think he's the crazy uncle in the attic needs to self commit to a loony bin.
Good people don’t swallow the crap RPaul dishes out.
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