Date: 01/26/2011
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Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, how did the 20-year war get started? It had been long assumed that the United States government, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack. A State Department cable recently published by Wikileaks confirmed that US Ambassador April Glaspie did indeed have a conversation with Saddam Hussein one week prior to Iraq’s August 1st, 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Amazingly, the released cable was entitled, “Saddam’s Message of Friendship to President Bush.” In it, Ambassador Glaspie affirmed to Saddam that the President—this is in quotes—“the President had instructed her to broaden and deepen our relations with Iraq”—close quote. As Saddam Hussein outlined Iraq’s ongoing border dispute with Kuwait, Ambassador Glaspie was quite clear that—quote—“We took no position on these Arab affairs”—close quote. There would have been no reason for Saddam Hussein not to take this assurance at face value. The US was quite supportive of his invasion and war of aggression against Iran in the 1980s. With this approval from the U.S. Government, it wasn’t surprising that the invasion occurred. The shock and surprise was how quickly the tables were turned, and our ‘friend,’ Saddam Hussein, all of a sudden became Hitler personified.
The document was classified, supposedly to protect national security, yet this information in no way jeopardized our security. Instead, it served to keep the truth from the American people about an event leading up to our initial military involvement in Iraq, and the region, that continues to today. The secrecy of the memo was designed to hide the truth from the American people and keep our government from being embarrassed.
This was the initial event that had led to so much death and destruction, not to mention the financial cost these past 20 years. Our response and persistent militarism toward Iraq was directly related to 9/11, as our presence on the Arabian peninsula—and in particular, Saudi Arabia—was listed by al-Qaeda as a major grievance that outraged the radicals who carried out the heinous attacks New York and Washington on that fateful day.
Today the conflict has spread through the Middle East and Central Asia with no end in sight. The reason this information is so important is that, if Congress and the American people had known about this “green-light incident” 20 years ago, they would have been a lot more reluctant to give a green light to our government to pursue the current war, a war that is ongoing and expanding to this very day.
The tough question that remains is, was this done deliberately, to create the justification, to redesign the Middle East, as many neo-conservatives desired, and to secure oil supplies for the West? Or was it just a diplomatic blunder followed up by many more strategic military blunders? Regardless, we have blundered into a war that no one seems willing to end.
Julian Assange, the publisher of the Wikileaks memo, is now considered an Enemy of the State. Politicians are calling for drastic punishment and even assassination. And sadly, the majority of the American people seem to support such moves. But why should we so fear the truth? Why should our government’s lies and mistakes be hidden from the American people in the name of patriotism? Once it becomes acceptable to equate “truth” with “treason,” we can no longer call ourselves a free society.
And I yield back the balance of my time.
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this is america
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this is america
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Ron Paul once again courageously speaks the truth!
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Hitler personified? Wasn’t Hitler a person to begin with?
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ONLY Threats to this World..
USA & Israel & Pentagon & EU
NATO, CIA, Mossad, Blackwater, BIS & School of Americas.
World Bank (WB, IMF & WTO created to make sure developed countries can always keep 3rd world countries poor & enslaved & can always steal everything they want from 3rd world countries, keep them oppressed & fully controlled & starving/dying in debt)
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Yeah, its always so nice to see so-called “free-thinking” atheists voting for a person who dont believe in global warming and evolution because “they are just theories”".
I know, it wont affect his political view. Dont even go there, of course it will. It tells you something about the mans intelligence.
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I’m honestly suprised Dr. Paul hasn’t been assasinated yet by Haliburton or Lockheed-Martin.
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Attention Ron Paul supporters:
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I wish he was this lucid in the recent debates. During the debates it seems he has so many thoughts at once that he is tripping over his words.
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I wish he was this lucid in the recent debates. During the debates it seems he has so many thoughts at once that he is tripping over his words.
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God…just fuck yeah
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More and more people are waking up. Ron Paul will get us out of these wars we keep spending trillions of dollars on. Even our troops have donated more money to him then any other candidate. If he is what out troops want then I want this man as President. Ron Paul 2012
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i thought rebubs were against the wikileaks “terrorists”… guess that doesnt count when their info is benefitial to their arguments…
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Most Republicans are against the wikileaks “terrorist” just as Obama, Hillary and many Democrats are.
Ron Paul is not “most rebubs”. He is the only REAL Republican left. He has always been against the wars. Please study before you post.
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“The War [WW3] must be conducted in such a way that Islam [Arab World] & political Zionism [Israel] mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion” – Albert Pike; 33° Grand Master Mason, in 1871.
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in office? Fucking lunatics like Koch brothers who believe in dissolving medicare, EPA, and TAXES to be allowed to profit maximize and steal from the producing workers. Go vote Ron Paul and have fun in your country, call me back in the future when your private insurance is reluctant to pay for an operate on you. My God, you people are wanting to ruin everything that civilization has fought and died for, economic and social stability secured for by DEMOCRATICLY elected state.
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D.O.O. NOT D.O.D. DEPARTMENT OF OFFENSE.
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its hard to win an election especially wen 83% of the country is ignorant
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America need to elect this man president.
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BOSS
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RON PAUL, WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR AN ANSWER! TELL AMERICAN PEOPLE HOW EXACTLY RU GOING TO CREATE JOBS? OK LETS SAY ALL TROOPS CAME BACK AND THEN WHAT? THEY ARE GOING TO SELL IPHONES AND BLACKBERRIES? DUDE BE A MEN, HOW RU GOING TO CREATE JOBS? POPULATION OF CHINA IS 1.4 B CHINESE WORK LIKE ROBOTS, BE HONEST TELL AMERICAN PEOPLE TO BUY UR BOOK U NEED CASH , U LOVE POWER, U LOVE CASH, U WILL NEVER CREATE JOBS, U HAVE NO ANSWER!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXt1cayx0hs
Watch this then you’ll know the plan… get rid of the bank, Andrew Jackson style, years of prosperity follow.
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Does anyone really believe that “PredatoryCapitalism” which is to blame for the financial crisees in 2008 and now can mean social justice and stand for an operating system?
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One man stands tall. The real uniter. The man who stands behind truth and capitalism. Ron Paul a giant among midgets.
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Ron Paul for president. Its a good start. Could not have said it better. The only way to get our country back is to break up the world bank and the rest of their NEW WORLD ORDER corruption.
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Do NOT buy into the propaganda that Dr. Paul is losing polls. Once someone has researched enough to find the truth, there is only one candidate standing. It’s going to take a REVOLUTION to get America back, and Dr. Ron Paul has a pretty genius plan.
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There are far too many idiots in this country. This man who is the only honest politician I know of hasn’t got a snowballs chance in hell of being elected. Shame on the American populas!!!!!!!
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There are far too many idiots in this country. This man who is the only honest politician I know of hasn’t got a snowballs chance in hell of being elected. Shame on the American populas!!!!!!!
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Ron Paul needs our help, support him during his “Ready, Ames, Fire!” Money Bomb on July 19th, and let’s “Restore America Now!”
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Thanks Triston…but things are now always what they seem and there
are many power groups that manipulate events and operate thru and with hidden agendas…
No Win War???
The New American for November 9, 2009, has an interesting article on General Barry McCaffrey’s statement that the US “faces 10 more years of war in Afghanistan” and that the US should “focus upon a long and expensive nation-building process for Afghanistan’s tribal culture.” There seems to be a mindset in the establishment for the US to maintain a long term presence in the MidEast.
For a long time, the US has operated in the region through hidden agendas. In his book, The New World Order, Mr. Pat Robertson, states that George Bush 1 suggested that the fate of Kuwait was not the main issue, “launching the New World Order was the main thing.” Mr. Robertson further writes, “By words and by silence, the United States flashed Saddam Hussein a green light” … to move into Kuwait and suggests this was used as a pretext for the 1st Gulf War…the implication is that Saddam was entraped with Green Light Diplomacy but there was a much larger agenda(hidden) for moving against Hussein………..
For the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the evidence suggests that the US and its allies are not doing all that can be done to win this war and there is some agenda for prolonging this conflict.
The Advocate quotes Hillary Clinton(Dec. 7, 2009, p. 5A), stating it is “hard to believe” that no one in Islamabad knows where the al-Qaida leaders are hiding and couldn’t get them “if they really wanted to.”
In the aftermath of 9.11, the bombing of the wrong escape route out of Afghanistan into Pakistan and the nighttime airlift by the US of the Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives that were allowed to escape(The New Yorker, Jan 28, 2002, p. 36); Gary Berntsen, the head of the CIAs team at Tora Bora said they tracked bin Laden and (he) “…could have been caught.”(Newsweek, Aug 15, 2005, p. 5); There is evidence that the Pakistani ISI is funding the Taliban and knows where they live but dont arrest them.(Time, Nov. 29, 2004, p. 44)
There is a strategy by the Pakistani government “…which pays tribes and insurgent networks to attack each other with a goal of preventing any one group from getting too strong”.(US News, Oct 13/Oct 20, 2008, p. 24)(a strategy used by the Brits) Pakistani Ambassador, Haqqani presents evidence in his book that the Pakistani military and ISI make “…the pretense of arresting militants in order to get funds from Washinton. But it never shut down the networks.”(Newsweek, May 11/May 18, 2009, p. 29)
The CIA never takes a junior partner role with any of these groups and we have to assume wants this to continue. The New York Times(Oct. 27, 2009) reports that Karzai’s brother is on the CIAs payroll and is a suspected player in the opium trade which finances the Taliban.
All of this only contributes to a more chaotic situation which feeds a hidden agenda for a “no win war” and prolonged conflict at the expense of American boys and girls lives!!
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I would just like to say to Woody Voinche that Eurasia is our ally. We are and have always been at war with Eastasia!
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Because the neo-cons run the mainstream media….if this shows up on their networks, it is detrimental to their cause to take over the world. If Americans see what’s REALLY going on, then the US….the worlds LAST refuge for freedom….will remain free, and the Neo-cons will lose and be exposed. Therefore, they tailor their own news on Fox, CNN and MSNBC, to be in their favor.
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This is in-sane
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