Show: America’s Nightly Scoreboard
Channel: Fox Business
Date: 09/01/2010
Transcript
Brian Sullivan: The body of fallen soldier Brandon Maggart returning home to Missouri will be laid to rest tonight. That’s just one night after the President declared an end to formal combat operations in Iraq. Sergeant Maggart was killed on August 22nd, three days after the last combat brigade left Iraq. Our next guest says this proves that we’re going to see more of an escalation than a drawdown. Joining us now from Clute, Texas, is Republican Congressman Ron Paul. Congressman Paul, welcome to the program, it’s Brian Sullivan. You wrote that, not only will our operations likely not change much, but that costs may actually go up because of the increased use of private contractors. Explain your position.
Ron Paul: That’s right. They’re admitting they’re keeping 50,000 troops there, that’s a lot, and they will be armed and they can get killed. But they have also 100,000 contractors there and they’re admitting that these numbers may increase. But even those troops that they’re bringing out, Obama was pretty clear that they may go into Afghanistan, or elsewhere, that he allows, this gives him more leverage to go into other areas. So, overall, there is no chance that this announcement here this last week has anything to do with reducing expenditures. And we talk about uncertainties in the marketplace, domestic uncertainties about fiscal policy and tax policies. But what about the uncertainty of our foreign policy? There’s an overhang, and it goes on and on, and this is a drain on our economy. So I see it as a serious problem.
Brian Sullivan: Do you believe that the troops that remain, remain more in harm’s way? It’s not as if the enemy there is going to say ‘oh, that’s not a combat troop, I’m not going to plant an IED’. Now, are there fewer soldiers there to protect the ones that are left?
Ron Paul: That’s right. And they make it sound like the mission has been so-called accomplished. I think this is like Mission Accomplished second time around, even though those words weren’t used. But, no, I think it’s very dangerous over there. I think they’ll continue to be killed and somebody might want to just make the point, if we make an example of them. But the whole thing is, there’s no intent to really leave ever for the indefinite future. We have this embassy that’s bigger than the Vatican. We have like 40 bases as of now and we plan to keep those bases there. Al Qaeda has actually moved into Iraq. Al Qaeda wasn’t there before the war started and, of course, we were told Al Qaeda was there and they were participants in 9/11. They had nothing to do with 9/11. This has been a tremendous boost to Osama Bin Laden. Because this proves his point that we’re over there for occupation. It just stirs up the hatred and the radicals. So I see this, our presence there, going in was bad, staying there is bad. I don’t like to see the American people deceived and thinking that we’ve had a major turning point.
Brian Sullivan: But Congressman, but we are there now, so what should we do? Should we, as you wrote, most people, when they hear the end of the war, think ‘all the troops are gone’. 50,000 remain. What do we do now?
Ron Paul: As a policy, our policy should be, we should come home. I mean we’re admitting now that they don’t need our combat troops. Just go one step further. But it’s a mess. It’s a mess of our creation. The strongest politician over there is al-Sadr. Al-Sadr is a strong Shiite aligned with Iran. And it just seems like, the more we get involved in trying to take care of our national security interests, the worse we make our national security. So we, essentially, in many ways, have turned Iraq over to be a close ally of Iran. And people say ‘well now we can never leave forever’. But when are we going to quit? If everything we do makes it worse for us, both financially and for national security purposes, the only thing I can say is overall policy is wrong. George Bush was right in the year 2000 when he said ‘we should have a humble foreign policy, we shouldn’t be policeman of the world and we shouldn’t be in nation building’. And that is exactly the foreign policy I like. And yet we have embarked on another course, both the leaderships of both parties, for this involvement around the world.
Brian Sullivan: The Russians learned a very hard lesson about the Afghan people. Right?
Ron Paul: That is true and others before them.
Brian Sullivan: Do you believe that we’re ramping up there and maybe it’s needed, the Taliban, cruel, oppressive to their own citizens. But, will we ever leave Afghanistan and if so, when? Let’s say we do at some point. Do you believe it will simply tumble back into what it was before we got there?
Ron Paul: Probably, but the Taliban hasn’t been a threat to us. We used to go to war because they threatened us but the Taliban are local people. They’re not Al Qaeda. They don’t send people outside their borders. All they care about is occupation. They don’t want foreigners. They were our allies when the Russians were the occupiers and we were supporting the radicals. As a matter of fact, we even supported some of the training of the radical Islamists. And we’re not gonna conquer Afghanistan because we’ll leave and they’ll drift back into some problems that they’ve had. But they’ve had periods of time, people back into the 1950s and the 1960s, Afghanistan wasn’t that bad of a country. It was rather calm compared to what’s happened since the Russians were in, the Soviets were in and since we’ve been in there. But this has been going on literally for centuries, outsiders always wanted to conquer Afghanistan.
Brian Sullivan: And wrap it up with this, Congressman, very quickly, do you believe you can, quote, unquote, win a war against an area that does not have a strong central government?
Ron Paul: No. Not unless you sacrifice every single thing that we have, our liberties and all our wealth. And then, after that’s all consumed, we lose anyway. So, no, you can’t win. You can’t win that. You can win the hearts and minds of other people if you set a good example. You trade with them and you talk to them. Look, we’re winning the hearts and minds of the people of Vietnam. But not because we went over there and killed a bunch of them. It’s because we left there and we started trading with them and talking to them. Just think now how westernized and capitalized, capitalistic the Chinese have become. You don’t win these battles with war. That’s been my argument and we have a great message. Actually our message here at home about freedom and prosperity in the marketplace and sound economics, we’re even losing that at home. So if we work harder on a sound, healthy economy here with sound money, I think more people would look to us and try to emulate us, and we wouldn’t have to try to force our way on other people around the world.
Brian Sullivan: Congressman Ron Paul, Sir, we appreciate your views tonight. Thank you very much.
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RON IS RIGHT that a war is not won by killing and degrading a country, a war is won by wining it’s peoples hearts and minds and set an example of real justice and real peace. its impossible to make peace by raging war. “the respect towards others rights is the true peace”(Benito Juarez) Ron Paul ftw
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RON IS RIGHT that a war is not won by killing and degrading a country, a war is won by wining it’s peoples hearts and minds and set an example of real justice and real peace. its impossible to make peace by raging war. “the respect towards others rights is the true peace”(Benito Juarez) Ron Paul ftw
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Sgt Maggart was in my unit. All the best ones fall. Strike First, Dragonslayer.
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Please search on Youtube for “Why We Fight In Under 6 Minutes. The Real Cost Of Endless War” and spread the word of liberty.
Ron Paul 2012
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we are never leaving the middle east, I have a friend in AFGhanistan and says that the buildings we are putting up are there for the long term, we have become occupiers
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If ron paul is assasinated…. Anarchy is the only option.
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I love ron paul!!!!!!
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If Ron Paul had a calm, deep and resonant voice he would have been President.
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Ron Paul for president! Thank God his son has now won a seat in the senate…and it appears that he’s closer to the “apple tree” than he ran on. Rand has said on several occasions that we need to cut our military spending.
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Google the Strategy of Tension
Rock on Dr. Paul.
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i love when fox only brings ron on to oppose mobama, or any1 else for that matter
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*AREN’T “no longer delusional”
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That’s ironic considering you don’t know what quoting is and can’t tell the difference between military policy and foreign policy. It’s also very evident you know very little about Rand Paul’s positions. You’re a gullible, deluded, ignorant fool. Go away.
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Wow, you definitely AREN’T delusional. In fact, you’re beyond delusional. He never once quoted Bush about military policy. What he did was make a reference to something Bush said about foreign policy, both of which (quoting vs. referring and military vs. foreign policy) are two completely different things. You fucked up twice in one sentence. Nice job.
“Scary Rand”? Whatever. You’ve shown you have zero credibility at all. Go away.
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He makes a lot of sense re certain things, esp. getting out of the middle east. However, when he actually quotes Bush about military policy, one has to wonder about this guy. That and the fact he’s the dad of the scary Rand.
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such a great man
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AMEN!
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RPFTW yea… sad he makes to much sense for republicans to like him =/ no no Not the conservatives.. Republicans.. Shit my Grandma whos a liberal is more conservative than 95% of the Republicans.
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this guy is brilliant…..it seems to me like he’s the only guy who cares about americans and speaks the truth without any political correctness….he just doesnt care abt the republican vs. democrats thing lol…..americans i hope you vote him in 2012…..cheers from india…..
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Fox News, Sarah Palin, does not speak for real true Republicans like me!!!!!
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I’m doing an assignment on this video. Can someone help me understand what Ron Paul says 5:37 into the video: ‘this has been going on literally for centuries, outsiders always wanted to ????’
Thanks in advance.
Richard
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THE LEFT IS SHOUTING LOUD. I DONT MEAN THE PARTY I MEAN THE GUY ON THE LEFT. YOU EVER SEE NORTH KOREAN NEWS VIDEOS? THEY SHOUT VERY LOUDLY AND DRAMATICALLY. THIS NEWS REMINDS ME OF THAT. RON PAUL HAS A NORMAL SPEAKING VOICE RELATIVE TO EVERYONE SHOUTING TO SOUND SMART. ALSO THE RUSSIANS DIDNT LEARN A HARD LESSON FROM THE AFGHANS, THE RUSSIANS LEARNED A HARD LESSON FROM THE AMERICANS. WHO FUNDED THEM. LIKE THE RUSSIANS WITH VIETNAM. JEEZ YOU PEOPLE GOTTA LEARN YOUR HISTORY RIGHT.
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9/11 is long gone. I don’t want to relive it or even remember it.
In the post 9/11 world, what have we really done that has truly made American a better nation?
Ron Paul would be dismally ineffective as president. Not because of his beliefs which I share, but because the political structure he would use to bring about change is corrupt and broken beyond repair. All republics fail when the 4th branch of government is neutered: The well armed citizenry.
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4:22 – 5:02 why should Ron Paul be our President… this answer..
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Good God….America is fucked. We’re broke, borrowing money from China, and what do we do? Waste more money expanding our empire. Pathetic.
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haha. Fox news is o biased. look at the videos at the back american troop giving hu5 to iraqi kid its a shame they forgot to shows pictures from Abu Gharib !!!!!!
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America has no intention of leaving Iraq. We plan on establishing and maintaining major military bases in the image and scale of our facilities in Germany and Japan for force projection as leverage in the region. American military personnel and mercenary “private contractors” are there to stay.
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these cads in the “off white” house couldn’t hold a candle to Ron Paul
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Just found this on the web, who knows if this is true or not. But interesting!
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/27/04/news1.shtml
http://www.hermes-press.com/saud_terrorism.htm
http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm
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Ron Paul making sense yet again.
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ron paul will never win. he should just quit and go relax on an island somewhere.
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Ron Paul!!! Ron Paul!!! We’ll make the NWO fall!!!
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U.C.C. (uniform commercial code) …..there you go, NOW GO WAKE UP THE SHEEPLE
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Wow a congressman saying 9/11 wasnt the fault of Al Qadea, 2:25 now thats saying something wake up people 9/11 was an inside job and we are over their for the bankers. Get rid of the fed, they have set up american banking to fail. It is impossible for america to not fall in to a depretion with the federal reserve in charge of banking they increase the money supply by making money out of thin air.
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the nazi media will never show this mans message! and most americans watch television to get their political views damn we are all clueless
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November; Ron Paul House Majority Leader???
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This little video shows you how WE THE PEOPLE can place Ron Paul on the ballot in 2012… wagthedog2010 (dot) com… share it far and wide…. WE WILL WIN!!!
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VOTE RON PAUL 2012!
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Ron Paul is my President.
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i thimk the idea of announcing the war is over.. is meaningless and stupid.. first of all why do we have coverage and deatails of war status, when our eemies can just watch it on tv or internet? secondly.. we have no business in middle east..or any other place..shut down the embassys, and bring troops hoome and secure the border geez
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