Ron Paul: Plans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months.
This past week however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 2011 attack on Libya.
The total waste of those wars should cause us to pause before this all-out effort at occupation and regime change is initiated against Syria.
There are no national security concerns that require such a foolish escalation of violence in the Middle East. There should be no doubt that our security interests are best served by completely staying out of the internal strife now raging in Syria.
We are already too much involved in supporting the forces within Syria anxious to overthrow the current government. Without outside interference, the strife—now characterized as a civil war—would likely be non-existent.
Whether or not we attack yet another country, occupying it and setting up a new regime that we hope we can control poses a serious Constitutional question: From where does a president get such authority?
Since World War II the proper authority to go to war has been ignored. It has been replaced by international entities like the United Nations and NATO, or the President himself, while ignoring the Congress. And sadly, the people don’t object.
Our recent presidents explicitly maintain that the authority to go to war is not the U.S. Congress. This has been the case since 1950 when we were taken into war in Korea under UN Resolution and without Congressional approval.
And once again, we are about to engage in military action against Syria and at the same time irresponsibly reactivating the Cold War with Russia. We’re now engaged in a game of “chicken” with Russia which presents a much greater threat to our security than does Syria.
How would we tolerate Russia in Mexico demanding a humanitarian solution to the violence on the U.S.-Mexican border? We would consider that a legitimate concern for us. But, for us to be engaged in Syria, where the Russian have a legal naval base, is equivalent to the Russians being in our backyard in Mexico.
We are hypocritical when we condemn Russian for protecting their neighborhood interests for exactly what we have been doing ourselves, thousands of miles away from our shores. There’s no benefit for us to be picking sides, secretly providing assistance and encouraging civil strife in an effort to effect regime change in Syria.
Falsely charging the Russians with supplying military helicopters to Assad is an unnecessary provocation. Falsely blaming the Assad government for a so-called massacre perpetrated by a violent warring rebel faction is nothing more than war propaganda.
Most knowledgeable people now recognize that the planned war against Syria is merely the next step to take on the Iranian government, something the neo-cons openly admit.
Controlling Iranian oil, just as we have done in Saudi Arabia and are attempting to do in Iraq, is the real goal of the neo-conservatives who have been in charge of our foreign policy for the past couple of decades.
War is inevitable without a significant change in our foreign policy, and soon. Disagreements between our two political parties are minor. Both agree the sequestration of any war funds must be canceled. Neither side wants to abandon our aggressive and growing presence in the Middle East and South Asia.
This crisis building can easily get out of control and become a much bigger war than just another routine occupation and regime change that the American people have grown to accept or ignore.
It’s time the United States tried a policy of diplomacy, seeking peace, trade, and friendship. We must abandon our military effort to promote and secure an American empire.
Besides, we’re broke, we can’t afford it, and worst of all, we’re fulfilling the strategy laid out by Osama bin Laden whose goal had always been to bog us down in the Middle East and bring on our bankruptcy here at home.
It’s time to bring our troops home and establish a non-interventionist foreign policy, which is the only road to peace and prosperity.
This week I am introducing legislation to prohibit the Administration, absent a declaration of war by Congress, from supporting — directly or indirectly — any military or paramilitary operations in Syria. I hope my colleagues will join me in this effort.
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GO HOME AMERICANS !!! GO HOME AND SIT THERE !!!!!
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GO HOME AMERICANS !!! GO HOME AND SIT THERE !!!!!
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Ron Paul was the most popular candidate in the US. He could bring peace to our bloody world. Now what we see is another 4 years presidential term of Rothschilds’ puppet. The American Democracy died with J.F.K in November 1963.
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the only good man in America
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you…um… misspelled stupid, and I really don’t understand how a man that essentially wants to bring all the troops home is a warmonger or a racist. So please explain, and please refrain from caps lock
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This man’s intelligence and educational background is working against him. Idiots will never vote someone like him into power. they’re looking for Peasants like themselves…one of the main points of concern in direct democracies.
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This man’s intelligence and educational background is working against him. Idiots will never vote someone like him into power. they’re looking for Peasants like themselves…one of the main points of concern in direct democracies.
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Thanks for identifying yourself.
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Ron Paul for president.
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Ron Paul your a global hero. You are much respected in Dublin.
Shame one of those muppets will become president of the US.
If the media was not controlled…you would be pres for sure…
Keep fighting the silent war….
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Why does nobody listen to this man???
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The American people had to fight for our freedom from the British in the revolutionary war so if a country has a problem with there leader they should take care of it themselves America shouldn’t invade an industrialize a nation for benefits that would be like me coming to take your dollar because I could. Ron Paul is AWSOME
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Idiot alert
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Idiot alert
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Idiot alert
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Idiot alert
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We know it’s not our business but the world shouldn’t do nothing that will only make the bloodshed last longer. We also need to help and guarantee the Syrians will get democracy then get out.
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It’s none of our business.
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RON PAUL… I think God granted him a halo!!! WE THE PEACEKEEPERS ASK FOR PEACE!
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“besides we are broke” I laughed , Americans will regret to voting for this last person similar to Kennedy
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I feel like I’ve heard this speech before… cause I have. He’s given nearly the same speech for every conflict we’ve considered getting involved in throughout his entire career in congress. It’d be nice if the executive branch actually took notice for a change. You gotta give him credit for keeping up the good fight despite so much resistance, disdain, and disregard.
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I feel like I’ve heard this speech before… cause I have. He’s given nearly the same speech for every conflict we’ve considered getting involved in throughout his entire career in congress. It’d be nice if the executive branch actually took notice for a change. You gotta give him credit for keeping up the good fight despite so much resistance, disdain, and disregard.
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RON PAUL 2012! WRITE HIM IN!
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RON PAUL 2012! WRITE HIM IN!
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You’re an idiot. Go give a long and intensely important speech and see if you can present it PERFECTLY all off the top of your head, without notes. I DOUBT you could.
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You’re an idiot. Go give a long and intensely important speech and see if you can present it PERFECTLY all off the top of your head, without notes. I DOUBT you could.
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We will not let the Russians, Chinese and Iranians justify and support the Assad Regime.
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Go Ron Paul!!!
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America systematically destroys eastern ethnic culture, first create alkaydu and learned of bin Laden at the CIA, and forced him to kill everybody, now she struggles with alkaydy with the government arming teroristov, giving another country at the mercy alkaydy, America then just destroy them, create one Syria, another supplier of raw materials,
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America systematically destroys eastern ethnic culture, first create alkaydu and learned of bin Laden at the CIA, and forced him to kill everybody, now she struggles with alkaydy with the government arming teroristov, giving another country at the mercy alkaydy, America then just destroy them, create one Syria, another supplier of raw materials,
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Yeah sent it to the wrong guy through. But i’m happy Ron Paul last i just hope we can get RomneyRyan in and Obama out.
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You must’ve replied to the wrong comment, because he didn’t say that. He said it’s unconstitutional, because it’s not declared by congress, which IS unconstitutional, and IS in the constitution.
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he is what a politician should be…concise and to the point. writing your ideas on paper helps organize your train of thought and not waste people’s time
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He talks alot of sense, bu is it his words or the words of the guy that writes his notes ?! If you truely belive in something you dont need papers too tell you what too say!
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Well, actually he’s about as traditionally conservative as you can get. The big government neo-conservatives nowadays really aren’t that conservative at all.
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