September 25, 2001...Ron Paul speech in the House of Representatives
"if successful would preclude a foolish invasion of a remote country with a forbidding terrain like Afghanistan- a country that no foreign power has ever conquered throughout all of history."
OH!!!!! SMACK! Don'tcha hate it when your own words come back to bite you in the arse?
From that speech I can tell Ron Paul didn’t understand the first Gulf War either. Not one mention of Saddam invading Kuwait. Not on mention of Kind of an important factor in 1991. It was all our fault apparently because we wanted the oil of Muslim nations.
Nobody that claims the wars have been for oil has been able answer this properly. If we went to war to take oil, then why are we still paying those countries for the oil we supposedly took?
Now Iraq, they invaded Kuwait for oil and they owned Kuwait around 15 billion dollars that they couldn’t or didn’t want to pay. Saddam had no intention of paying Kuwait for that oil, he was just going to take it.