ron paul - my truth video

this guy has got it right...

I'd say alot of guys like this comprise his campaign base. Liberals forced to convert to gain politically! It's there same attitude about the war, they need us to lose so they gain favor.

The majority of Americans are not "hard left"

A lot of people would like to succeed, but see the reality of what has been going on the last four years, which is that the reasons for going to war in Iraq were BS

and it has been mismanaged from the get go.

Now we are going for the hail mary to keep interest, but fact is, if you have to go for a long bomb on the 4th down in the 4th qaurter, you are reaching.

Simply look at the outcry from the people when the anmesty bill almost went through, people want America to be America, and be protected, and nothing has been done to protect America.

Going to war in Iraq is NOT protecting America,

protecting long term oil interest, and strategical placement maybe, but securing Iraq without so much as even a meager effort to secure America itself makes it an empty gesture.

Appeasement of the House of Saud, and the failure to continue going after terrorist "where they hide" and countries that harbor and support them make it an empty gesture.

Pro-war advocates want everyone to believe that we are "doing good" in Iraq, my view is, we aren't doing **** if we aren't securing our own country.

Make an effort to secure our country, and I might buy that we are on a real mission in Iraq.

Not according to us the UN and world consensus at the time.

Give me one example of a war going according to plan?

Says you, Patreus see's different? I think he would say he has the upper hand.

So you don't think the Patriot act and our metering of internet/phone traffic hasn't accomplished anything?

It's just a fluck that we haven't been attacked again?

Where do by far the largest majority of terrorists go if you want to kill Americans?

In your opinion, since we haven't been attacked again since 9/11 i think opinion leans slightly my way.

The enemy of my enemy.

You tell me you didn't do any good while you were there and i'll call you a liar. Any soldier i have ever asked say exactly the opposite?

So you were not on a real mission when you were there? What were you doing there then, stealing oil?

Last time I cared about the U.N. was...never, and no, the world consensus was to use caution in this conflict, not abandon all dimplomacy to the wind, that's why so few went in, and most of the ones that did, left almost immediately.



Mismanaged and planning, two different things.



We'll see in September, hopefully the report is at least halfway honest.



Other than give free riegn to invade our privacy? Nope. At least nothing that couldn't have been done with the agencies we already had in place.



Just a fluke we weren't attacked here in the US while Carter was President? Or Reagan?



I can' even begin to tell you how just plain silly that sounds, especially that until not too long ago (when the US death count past 2800 in Iraq) more people were killed in New York than ALL the past terrorist attacks on Americans combined.



Carter? Reagan? Nixon?



Mistake number 1. The House of Saud is not our friend, they are our pimp.



In the grand scheme of things...no. On a day to day basis, we made some lives better, but overall, no, we did not "improve" much. Of course when I was there we were just coming out of combat mode and into occupation mode. We were still shooting first and asking questions later. The elections went off, and yippy, a bunch of Iraqis voted (you know, for the guys that went on vacation while we are trying to get their country in order), now that shia we put in power are slowly becoming our enemies, while the sunni insurgents we were fighting are becoming our alllies? Strange and dangerous bedfellows buddy. Since I left secular violence has increased exponentionally, so no, up until recently, our progress has been pretty slow.



Oh look out, your little mind fell out again, pick up before someone steps on it.

Last time I cared about the U.N. was...never, and no, the world consensus was to use caution in this conflict,

Mismanaged and planning, two different things.

We'll see in September, hopefully the report is at least halfway honest.

Other than give free riegn to invade our privacy? Nope. At least nothing that couldn't have been done with the agencies we already had in place.

Just a fluke we weren't attacked here in the US while Carter was President? Or Reagan?

Mistake number 1. The House of Saud is not our friend, they are our pimp.

In the grand scheme of things...no. On a day to day basis, we made some lives better, but overall, no, we did not "improve" much.

our progress has been pretty slow.

Oh look out, your little mind fell out again, pick up before someone steps on it