Bryan
05-20-2007, 09:58 AM
I've given some good thought to this topic and it seems that this could either make or break Dr. Paul's campaign, if the American people come to accept the reality of blowback it would be a big win else he could be marginalized because of "Rudy's big win".
To that end, I've started to compile some quotes supporting blowback and Dr. Paul's position in the debate, please add any additional like statements.
How much should the campaign drive this issue? If any, how should they do it?
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"You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten."
President Hoover, the day after Pearl Harbor
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"America's policy choices have consequences. Right or Wrong; It is simply a fact that... American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world."
- The 9/11 Commission Report
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"There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed - but it's huge - is that ... we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda.
"In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things.
"I don't want to speak in messianic terms. It's not going to change things overnight, but it's a huge improvement."
Paul Wolfowitz, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense,
Vanity Fair May, 9th 2003
http://peacefuljustice.caltech.edu/0630/5.shtml
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"I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly. This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom, but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World - because ‘we’re over there"
Michael Scheuer, the former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/19/former-head-of-cias-osama-unit-backs-up-rep-ron-paul/
http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_05_18_scheuer.mp3
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"After watching all the network pundits laud Giuliani, it struck me that they must be the most clueless folks in the world.
First, Giuliani must be an idiot to not have heard Paul's rationale before. That issue has been raised countless times in the last six years by any number of experts.
Second, when we finish with our emotional response, it would behoove us to actually think about what Paul said and make the effort to understand his rationale."
Roland S. Martin, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/18/martin/index.html
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"Ron Paul, my new hero. I think he's great... he is saying the truth and they are treating him like a crazy person."
Bill Maher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeeevXtlDY
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"I know he [Dr. Paul] has been misinterpreted... I find it outrageous that the republican officials say he should be excluded from the other debates"
John Fund, Wall Street Journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeeevXtlDY
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"The idea, as Ron Paul expressed during the recent debate, that America was not right in the first place to attack and destabilize the Middle East over the last 100 years or so is something that the monetary and power elite simply cannot stomach."
Anthony Wile, founder Free Market News Networt Corp.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/134/7559/ron.asp?wid=134&nid=7559
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"up on that stage in Columbia, Ron Paul was speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war."
Pat Buchanan, founding editor of The American Conservative magazine
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=but_who_was_right_--_rudy_or_ron&ns=PatrickJBuchanan&dt=05/18/2007&page=full&comments=true
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"The rhetoric and spin about Congressman Ron Paul's "blaming America" for the September 11th attacks is symptomatic of the problems of foreign interventionism plaguing this country. The media establishment is so out of touch with reality they don't know where to begin analyzing an actual informed opinion."
Scott Horton
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=10988
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"The problem is that if you actually took the time to think about, and read about what Paul was saying, he actually makes perfect sense and is telling the awful truth."
"Ron Paul's problem is not that he was wrong, it's that he was too right for an audience that doesn't have time for long complicated answers."
Mark Radulich
http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/54560/In-Defense-of-Ron-Paul.htm
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"Rudy Giuliani made clear ... that he is not ready to let the facts get in the way of his approach to foreign policy."
"But congressman did not back down, and for good reason. Unlike Giuliani, the Texan has actually read the record."
John Nichols
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=195576
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"But Ron Paul is right and he had the courage of his convictions to say it. Guiliani and the rest of the pile-on know damned well that Paul is right, but they lack the personal backbones to stand up and say it."
Jersey McJones
http://www.teambio.org/2007/05/ron-paul-is-right/
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"So far as I know, Ron Paul is the only prominent public figure in the six years since who has given an honest telling of this truth."
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama
http://www.mises.org/story/2588
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"Paul thus becomes the first person in mainstream politics--he's been in Congress many years--to acknowledge that U.S. foreign policy has had bad consequences not only for people in the Middle East but for Americans at home as well
U.S. imperialist polices in the Middle East have been good for special interests and power-loving politicians, but bad for the American people. Someone in government has finally had the courage to say so."
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman magazine.
Baltimore Chronicle
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/051807Richman.shtml
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"As a Vietnam veteran I did not comprehend the issues of the Vietnamese people until some 15 years after I had returned home... I was ... trying to digest why a childhood friend had died in Nam 1968 and the war dragged on until 1975. We needed a Ron Paul then and we should be greatful we have him now."
John F. Rosina
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/013073.html#more
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"The reality is, that entire books have been written to promote the blowback theory."
John Derbyshire, National Review Online
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjdmMDg3MmExMGY4MDBmZjk3ZWFmZjJiZmMxMzI4MTM=&w=MQ==
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"To believe what Giuliani stated, that they attacked us because of "our freedom and women's rights", you must also believe in the tooth fairy."
Remember Salamis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834249/posts
To that end, I've started to compile some quotes supporting blowback and Dr. Paul's position in the debate, please add any additional like statements.
How much should the campaign drive this issue? If any, how should they do it?
---------------------------------------------
"You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten."
President Hoover, the day after Pearl Harbor
---------------------------------------------
"America's policy choices have consequences. Right or Wrong; It is simply a fact that... American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world."
- The 9/11 Commission Report
---------------------------------------------
"There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed - but it's huge - is that ... we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda.
"In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things.
"I don't want to speak in messianic terms. It's not going to change things overnight, but it's a huge improvement."
Paul Wolfowitz, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense,
Vanity Fair May, 9th 2003
http://peacefuljustice.caltech.edu/0630/5.shtml
---------------------------------------------
"I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly. This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom, but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World - because ‘we’re over there"
Michael Scheuer, the former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/19/former-head-of-cias-osama-unit-backs-up-rep-ron-paul/
http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_05_18_scheuer.mp3
------------------------------------
"After watching all the network pundits laud Giuliani, it struck me that they must be the most clueless folks in the world.
First, Giuliani must be an idiot to not have heard Paul's rationale before. That issue has been raised countless times in the last six years by any number of experts.
Second, when we finish with our emotional response, it would behoove us to actually think about what Paul said and make the effort to understand his rationale."
Roland S. Martin, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/18/martin/index.html
---------------------------------------------
"Ron Paul, my new hero. I think he's great... he is saying the truth and they are treating him like a crazy person."
Bill Maher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeeevXtlDY
------------------------------------
"I know he [Dr. Paul] has been misinterpreted... I find it outrageous that the republican officials say he should be excluded from the other debates"
John Fund, Wall Street Journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeeevXtlDY
---------------------------------------------
"The idea, as Ron Paul expressed during the recent debate, that America was not right in the first place to attack and destabilize the Middle East over the last 100 years or so is something that the monetary and power elite simply cannot stomach."
Anthony Wile, founder Free Market News Networt Corp.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/134/7559/ron.asp?wid=134&nid=7559
---------------------------------------------
"up on that stage in Columbia, Ron Paul was speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war."
Pat Buchanan, founding editor of The American Conservative magazine
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=but_who_was_right_--_rudy_or_ron&ns=PatrickJBuchanan&dt=05/18/2007&page=full&comments=true
---------------------------------------------
"The rhetoric and spin about Congressman Ron Paul's "blaming America" for the September 11th attacks is symptomatic of the problems of foreign interventionism plaguing this country. The media establishment is so out of touch with reality they don't know where to begin analyzing an actual informed opinion."
Scott Horton
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=10988
---------------------------------------------
"The problem is that if you actually took the time to think about, and read about what Paul was saying, he actually makes perfect sense and is telling the awful truth."
"Ron Paul's problem is not that he was wrong, it's that he was too right for an audience that doesn't have time for long complicated answers."
Mark Radulich
http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/54560/In-Defense-of-Ron-Paul.htm
---------------------------------------------
"Rudy Giuliani made clear ... that he is not ready to let the facts get in the way of his approach to foreign policy."
"But congressman did not back down, and for good reason. Unlike Giuliani, the Texan has actually read the record."
John Nichols
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=195576
---------------------------------------------
"But Ron Paul is right and he had the courage of his convictions to say it. Guiliani and the rest of the pile-on know damned well that Paul is right, but they lack the personal backbones to stand up and say it."
Jersey McJones
http://www.teambio.org/2007/05/ron-paul-is-right/
---------------------------------------------
"So far as I know, Ron Paul is the only prominent public figure in the six years since who has given an honest telling of this truth."
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama
http://www.mises.org/story/2588
---------------------------------------------
"Paul thus becomes the first person in mainstream politics--he's been in Congress many years--to acknowledge that U.S. foreign policy has had bad consequences not only for people in the Middle East but for Americans at home as well
U.S. imperialist polices in the Middle East have been good for special interests and power-loving politicians, but bad for the American people. Someone in government has finally had the courage to say so."
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman magazine.
Baltimore Chronicle
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/051807Richman.shtml
---------------------------------------------
"As a Vietnam veteran I did not comprehend the issues of the Vietnamese people until some 15 years after I had returned home... I was ... trying to digest why a childhood friend had died in Nam 1968 and the war dragged on until 1975. We needed a Ron Paul then and we should be greatful we have him now."
John F. Rosina
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/013073.html#more
---------------------------------------------
"The reality is, that entire books have been written to promote the blowback theory."
John Derbyshire, National Review Online
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjdmMDg3MmExMGY4MDBmZjk3ZWFmZjJiZmMxMzI4MTM=&w=MQ==
---------------------------------------------
"To believe what Giuliani stated, that they attacked us because of "our freedom and women's rights", you must also believe in the tooth fairy."
Remember Salamis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834249/posts