Date: 05/09/2011
by Ron Paul
Last week marked an important milestone in the war on terrorism for our country. Osama bin Laden applauded the 9/11 attacks. Such deliberate killing of innocent lives deserved retaliation. It is good that bin Laden is dead and justice is served. The way in which he was finally captured and killed shows that targeted retribution is far superior to wars of aggression and nation-building. In 2001 I supported giving the president the authority to pursue those responsible for the vicious 9/11 attacks. However, misusing that authority to pursue nation-building and remaking the Middle East was cynical and dangerous, as the past ten years have proven.
It is tragic that it took ten years, trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of American casualties and many thousands of innocent lives to achieve our mission of killing one evil person. A narrow, targeted mission under these circumstances was far superior to initiating wars against countries not involved in the 9/11 attacks, and that is all we should have done. This was the reason I emphasized at the time the principle of Marque and Reprisal, permitted to us by the US Constitution for difficult missions such as we faced. I am convinced that this approach would have achieved our goal much sooner and much cheaper.
The elimination of Osama bin Laden should now prompt us to declare victory and bring our troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Qaeda was never in Iraq and we were supposedly in Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden. With bin Laden gone, there is no reason for our presence in the region – unless indeed it was all about oil, nation-building, and remaking the Middle East and Central Asia.
Hopefully bin Laden does not get the last laugh. He claimed the 9/11 attacks were designed to get the US to spread its military dangerously and excessively throughout the Middle East, bankrupting us through excessive military spending as he did the Soviets, and to cause political dissention within the United States. Some 70 percent of Americans now believe we should leave Afghanistan yet both parties seem determined to stay. The best thing we could do right now is prove bin Laden a false prophet by coming home and ending this madness on a high note.
Tragically, one result may be the acceptance of torture as a legitimate tool for pursuing our foreign policy. A free society, calling itself a republic, grounded in the rule of law, should never succumb to such evil.
At the very least we should all be able to agree that foreign aid to Pakistan needs to end immediately. The idea that bin Laden was safely protected for ten years in Pakistan, either willfully or through incompetence, should make us question the wisdom of robbing American citizens to support any government around the world with foreign aid. All foreign aid and intervention needs to end.
Our failed foreign policy is reflected in our bizarre relationship with Pakistan. We bomb them with drones, causing hundreds of civilian casualties, we give them billions of dollars in foreign aid for the privilege to do so, all while they protect America’s enemy number one for a decade.
It is time to consider a sensible non-interventionist foreign policy as advised by our Founders and authorized by our Constitution. We would all be better off for it.
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In Ron Paul, via the US Constitution, God is giving America a chance to turn back to its true greatness through freedom and peace.
These are critical times and you can beat that the Mass Media, Banks, and their political minions in the Courts and Government are going to do their best to undermine the Freedom and Peace movement
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He’s calling them out on the reason we went in there. If we do not leave then that reason was & still is bogus. The players of the Grand Chessboard are rearranging their pieces. They have new boogie men for us to spend trillions of dollars on & bury thousands of American soldiers in perusing for another decade while they rob more nations of their natural resources. If they cannot convince the American people then they will give us another Pearl Harbor type event, a False Flag.
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Amen
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Well atleast his bullshit is spoken with a convincing, calm tone. His fellow Republican George W. Bush just kind of stared at the camera until he understood what the teleprompter was saying.
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Politics is a game of chess, not checkers, I’m sure Dr.Paul knows exactly what’s going on, if he came out tomorrow trying to rebuff everything our govt had said he’d be ridiculed, and would probably lose some votes which he needs
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I think if the Militants want to Come home they should speak up its all of you VS the few of Them!
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holy, do i ever have a different view on you now Ron if you are pretending along with them that he ‘just’ died. i guess the talk that is starting may have some validity to it, you ARE one of them. You KNOW what the hell is going on…but you choose to play the game anyway. Shame shame shame. Between the tv interviews in the past where you COULD have said a lot, but instead played the political game of NOT coming out and saying anything and now this, i lost faith. say what u do on radio on tv!!
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Ron paul 2012! tired of these ignorant ass people supporting republicans and democrats who dont have there best interest.
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Osama has been dead for a decade now!!!
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I donated to Dr. Paul’s money bomb, but now I worry based on the content of this video that he is afraid to speak the truth.. or won’t. Bin Laden was a pawn. It was his brother who died a few days ago as Osama died shortly before 9/11 and the puppet masters quickly swapped his brother and sold him as Osama before the world really knew which was which.. Dr. Paul leaves no room to even consider there were sinister forces at play.. he doesn’t say how we’re in Afghanistan for Opium.. what gives?
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Ron Paul 2012! Last chance to Wake up America, Save the Republic and Vote Ron Paul!
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Bin laden has been dead and had nothing to do with 911. I knew Ron Paul would never mentioned that. Instead he keeps his integrity while ignoring the facts that we have been victims of a false flag event. Also, just because Ron Paul says a lot of things we all agree on, and makes us feel good but what has he actually done to reverse this things? I know he can’t do it alone and that is the point I’m making. The game is rigged..voting is rigged and I’m tired of waiting every 2 yrs for a chance
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Bring our troops home!! No more nation building or “peace keeper” missions…..
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WIKILEAKS: Al Qaeda to unleash ‘nuclear hellstorm’ if Osama killed…
news. ninemsn. com.au/world/8241119/capturing-bin-laden-would-unleash-hell
WWIII
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I had my wife and 18 yr.old daughter register to vote just for R.P. , don’t let us down Ron…kick ass and take names…
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After the lies our Govt. has been used to feeding America, from the Gulf of Tonkin,U.S.S.Liberty, to Vaccines,we are reasonably suspicious…
It would be more believable with a body, esspecially when they could have, and should have, taken him alive….
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Ron Paul I’m not an american and I don’t even live in America, but I really hope you become President.. get America back to what it used to be… a great country.. a country of the free and home of the brave…You would be the best President since JFK.. I’m really praying for you I really am
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The entire story is not plausible and from a former-cop perspective (I quit and left the USSA after reading too many Homeland Security Domestic Terrorism reports that made my skin crawl) it doesn’t make any sense. You kill an unarmed guy you have been looking for since 2001. People forget quickly that Osama Bin Laden was a former paid, trained, and armed CIA operative. OBL was never charged with 9-11 + his FBI wanted poster makes no mention of his involvement. 9-11 US Government orchestrated.
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if water boarding worked, why didn’t we find him sooner??
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Should be called Texas Real Talk lol
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Translation: Let’s turn thousands of death from war of terrorism as nothing. Let’s just forget about 3000 some victims of 9/11. Let’s abandon all of our allies so they can massacred by its regeonal enemies. Let’s be slavish dog of China and Russia. Let’s become a global outcast.
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The CIA bankrolled OBL to bankrupt the soviet union and now Amerika. Take off the rose colored glasses and see the politicians for who they are, organized criminals. We don’t leave until 2014 so this makes Paul a willing actor in their master plan and he’ll keep repeating himself as usual. Its a distraction tool and hope is the carrot.
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This is what a true American hero and patriot sounds like. Thanks Ron Paul.
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we made a monster in order to defeat our enemy
but the greed of our elite
the lies of our government
we now have become the monster
we need god back in our house
for it is now godless
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Exactly .. if bin laden is really dead . bring those guys home . why are they there ? fighting for what ? oil ?
Pfft theres young men over there fighting for something they don’t even know the truth of & theres bad americans who are killing innocents,raping women etc
bring home the good troops,leave the bad behind.
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come on ron,you know bin laden had nothing to do with 9/11,if i were you i would leave it up to the people to bring up the subject tho,no reason to get yourself killed by the illuminati.but no way bin laden had anything to do with it.
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I agree!
Bring them home!
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As if a single person can be the cause. As if 911 was planned by OBL. … I like Ron Paul, but this message sounds like a naive tale tail to me.
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CERCL
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Great point
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Bring me home, Ron!!!
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Since when do we just find and kill fugitives anyway? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to QUESTION bin laddin? Maybe waterboard him? How many people have we tortured to find this man. We had nothing to ask him? Bring the troops home now!
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Wow ron. Well stated!!!
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first muwahahahahaaha
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