Giuliani wants to leave the borders open so more can cross with the Illegal Aliens.

I think I've told you before you eat too much spicy salsa, but now I know you are a fool.

It doesn't really matter to me if you don't understand or want to participate in life. I'm not thinking you have many close friends so you attack those that love "the 18th century".

Even if Ron Paul had 51 supporters, I'd be one of them that voted on Primay Day. I'd rather vote my conscience than have to choose between communism and socialism candidates.

All that matters is we try. If our brothers and sisters like what's coming down the pipe, God speed my friend.

Ron Paul will do the right thing.
Ron Paul does the right thing.
Ron Paul speaks for the patriot.

Uh... Rudy, it was also "kind of organized" in America too. Are you saying that we should attack America because it caused 9/11? What a dunce.

Ron's got thought to back his words up. Giuliani's got contrived soundbytes.

Your time would be better spent buying lotto tickets. Most of us have listened to him and dismissed him as just another Libertarian dingbat. Somebody from the Constitution Party or the Libertarian Party or some other fringe group says the exact same things every election. They get a few protest votes (I voted for Nader once myself), but it just ain't gonna happen guys. Give it up.

Someone, for some reason, brought up the Cuban Missile Crisis. I don't recall Kennedy dropping bombs on Cuba to resolve the issue. Paul's point is that, realistically, we're not going to have some nail-biting, "the bombers are incoming, can we engage!?" situation. And in such a situation, the President obviously has a right to take action. But he can't bomb and invade Iran because, some day, Iran might get weapons which it might sell off to terrorists who might in turn sneak them into the US. That's not an imminent threat, and the Congress should declare war.

Nothing imminent happening. Let's close down the FBI, CIA, and homeland security. If anything DOES become imminent – we'll be able to see them coming on the horizon with my trusty telescope!

Ron Paul – 18th Century thinking!

This country has a lot of trouble learning from its mistakes.

To answer your questions:

1) The Iranian revolution and the taking of hostages was blowback from the 1953 coup by the CIA in which the democratically elected leader of Iran was ousted and we installed the shah, an oppressive dictator.
2) The suicide attacks, which were horrible and extremely wrong, were caused because of the fact that we had marines in Beirut.
3) The 9/11 commission report and the CIA tell us that we were attacked because of 1) support for Israel, 2) Constant bombing of Iraq, 3) Meddling in the affairs of Middle Eastern governments and supporting oppressive Regimes (saudi arabia, for example, which is why 15 of the hijackers were from that country).

Obviously, these reactions to our foreign policy are completely awful, but the fact remains that the middle east feels threatend by us and will continue to fight until we change our foreign policy and dismantle our empire.

We are fighting a war against an insurgency, not a 'war on terror.' In the words of Dr. Paul, ""The catch-all phrase, 'War on Terrorism,' in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against criminal gangsterism. It’s deliberately vague and non definable to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere, and under any circumstances."

WE ARE NOT BEING ATTACKED FOR WHO WE ARE, BUT RATHER WHAT WE DO IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Furthermore, it isn't blame america first, we have to blame our foreign policy.

What does he mean by this? he was no where near the trade center when it was actually attacked. Is he just trying to imply he was alive when it happened? In that case Ron Paul lived thorugh it too.

Talk to any Native American who lost relatives to the genocide inflicted upon them by the US government in the 18th and 19th centuries.

You will get a different answer from them.

Jon of Sacramento, why don’t you grab yourself several nice cold beers and a couple of shots. After all, the legal drug alcohol is completely safe. No one has ever died from it. No domestic disputes have been caused by it, and I can walk into any bar and find rational, thoughtful people who are in control of their actions and emotions.

By the way, how has your neo-con paradise turned out? Do you feel safer and freer now than you did in 1980? Just ask the rest of us how WE feel.

"Jon, you're just wrong. First of all, Pearl Harbor was not an imminent attack, it was a *surprise* attack. Are you suggesting we should have bombed the Japanese before we even suspected they were going to attack us?

Neither was the Cuban Missile Crisis an imminent attack; if you really think it is you need to study MAD a little more. As history shows, it was maneuvering by the USSR, nothing more.

Finally, 9/11 was not only not an imminent attack (another surprise attack), but it wasn't even organized by any nation! The perpetrators of 9/11 WERE thugs, just as Ron Paul declared, and should be dealt with using police action, not state warfare."

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Rye,

So you want to play semantics over "imminent" attack and "surprise" attack??

You, by supporting Ron Paul, rather us go back to sleep so ALL the attacks could be "surprise" attacks??

You then want to suggest the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't anything other than "manuevering by the USSR"? Yeah – what's the big deal of the Soviets having nuclear missiles 90 miles off our southern border?! Yeah... it wasn't a big deal... I have no idea why they would call it a CRISIS.

9/11 wasn't a State sponsored attack, but it was an act of terrorism put together by organizations (Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, etc) that continue plotting the death of Americans or any country/people disagreeing with their Islamic extremist views (UK, Spain, etc).

Bottom line – VOTE Ron Paul if you prefer to close your eyes and pretend no one wishes the US any harm. Take another hit off the bong in honor of Ron Paul who wants to legalize drugs.

Ron Paul will never win the Republican nomination. He is not a Republican. He is a Libertarian desperate for attention.

Keep clucking Ron Paul disciples. Your political days are numbered.

Perhaps he needs to do his homework. How about the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were murdered under US government policy in the 18th, 19th and part of the 20th Century?

I guess he means that WHITE America has never been under imminent attack.

If he has never heard it said that "we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq (yes, even during Clinton's 'reign')," he's never heard bin Laden's rationalization for the attack, he hasn't read much, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be President.

I love the US, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that we as a nation never make mistakes and never make enemies. That attitude is arrogance, not patriotism, and it's the kind of thinking that does indeed make enemies.

Ron Paul is right and Rudy is an arrogant, self-serving idiot.

He's the best candidate for President!

This man just makes sense!

I am willing to listen to that argument, and I will not filibuster. However, I do have some questions:

(1) What did America do to cause the American Embassy to be attacked and the occumpants held hostage for 444 days between 11/1979 and 01/1981 ?

(2) What did America do to provoke 200+ marines murdered by a suicide attack in Beirut in 1983 ?

(3) On 09/11/2001, what did the flight attendants, pilots, and American civilian passengers do on those fateful flights to deserve to have their throats slashed?

The terrorists are completely intolerant of anyone who is not exactly like themselves. Rudy Guliani was knighted by England's Queen Elizabeth for his heroic actions on 09/11/2001, and deservedly so.

Ron Paul is an isolationist who completely misunderstands the War on Terror.

Further the hijackers planned part of the attack in Germany. Then flew to meetings in the Indonesia, may have been in Prague, lived down the street from the CIA and live in Laurel Maryland and drove by the entrance of the NSA a day before the attack.

Bush has admitted himself Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. This is common knowledge. Rudy is way out of touch with anything but Neo-con propaganda, and doesn't really know anything about reality, except how to say "9/11" and use this tragic event for his greedy campaign.

Rudy makes me sick.

Go Ron Paul!

Giuliani is just going to perpetuate this rediculous, unending "war on terror" and continue the bush legacy. Ron Paul is my only hope of not being drafted.

Ok, so by that 3rd grade level reasoning, we should be going to war with our own country when Timothy McVeigh "organized" the attack in Oklahoma? How stupid does Rudy think the american people are anyway?

Rudy get the vote of the scared little american sucking his thumb in the corner, worried about the next attack on our country. Ron Paul gets the vote of the american who values his freedom over big daddy government providing security at the cost of liberty.

Simple choice if you ask me.

Ron Paul 2008

Instead, what we can control, and what is the fiscally responsible thing to do, is changing our foreign policy, and stop trying to police the world, and instead, make our home defense stronger.

The terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Syria, and Lebanon. They planned the attacks in Aghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and even South Florida. What, so we have bombed all of those countries, and even South Florida? You can't win the hearts and minds of others by occupying their countries, and telling them what to do at gun point, and by accidentally killing their children by our unneeded presence there.