By the way all, Terrorism is done without motive. Motive for 911, our intervening foreign policy. We stay out of the affairs of the middle east, we stay out of war for foreign countries protection.

We are not a world police and we will not lose the blood of one more single American if that loss is not for the life of another American. Bottom Line!

We don’t need big brother. If an infiltration of Enemies were to step foot on American Soil, we have that Right to Militia. Stop allowing our government to raise protected pussies. We need to stand for something and be brave.

Without Ron Paul we will continue to lose the value of our dollar and our jobs will continue to be outsourced.

Some people, including some Muslims, utilized the tactic of terrorism against the US before 2000 and before 1992 and before 1988, etc. Osama bin Laden was a real and credible threat when Bush was running for office, yet he seemed to get a lot of support for his “no nation building” rhetoric. To say that we need a stronger executive to combat these “dangerous times” is, in the end, to support the loss of our civil liberties. Although, granted, you spoke about the war and not the anti-terrorism tactics used domestically.

And seriously, how can anyone say “they’ll follow us home”? Who is going to follow us home? The band of al Qaeda in Iraq? They’ll be wiped out by Iraqis long before they can get their Air Iraq boarding passes. The bulk of the fighting in Iraq is by insurgents, whose goal is to create an Iraq in their own image. They have no qualm with the people of the United States, and no ambitions to overthrow or damage the US. They want their country, not ours.

Lastly, I find your comment about the domino effect and Hitler ridiculous. The benefit of having such oppressive governments: political movements are crushed quite quickly. And hey, if “Islamofascists” do gain control of a MidEast state, we can declare war and crush them, should they pose a threat to us.

I would rather have a 9/11 attack every day of the week than give up my liberties. 3000 people died - should 300 million cower in fear?

BUT!

This is a post 9/11 world and while his domestic economic stances are 110% in tune with what I want to see I think he misunderestamates the severity of the war on terror and how vital it is to the survival of our country and all peace loving (or peace desiring) people!

Get some perspective. More people drown in their bathtubs than die from terrorism. Get a grip and don’t buy into the fear you’ve been fed.

So please take this a step further and analzye the monetary costs of our foreign policy. The dollar has fallen sharply since 2002, the federal budget has balooned from $1.7 trillion to $2.8 since 2000. Funding our “empire” costs nearly half a trillion a year now for the military.

At the same time, unfunded government liabilities are nearly $60 trillion - $500,000 per household.

I do believe that radical fundamentalist movements are very dangerous. But they simply CAN’T defeat us through a traditional military conflict. I think a much greater threat is that we ignore financial concerns and continue marching around the globe fighting “terror.” The single greatest victory for those bent on destroying America would be to help cause a collapse of the dollar or the economy in general, likely leading to a global financial crisis. Just as Hitler rose to power in a post WWI economically depressed Germany, this would create the type of environment rich for Bin Ladin types to move out of caves and into state power positions.

So, assuming you’re right and folks who have said this could be a century long battle against fundamentalism are also correct, wouldn’t 4-8 years of true fiscal conservatism better prepare us for this struggle? Wouldn’t a return to fiscal sanity be our best long-term defense of the American economy?

We are supposedly the richest nation in the world, yet we borrow over $2 billion PER DAY from foreign investors (mostly Chinese) to fund our domestic spending and foreign policy. I prefer not to underestimate my enemies - they understand they can’t win a traditional military fight with us - But they are resilient, driven by emotion and irrationalities. If their long term plans involve breaking the American economy by baiting us into war after war, they’re doing a good job at it.

If this is the case, then why are Ron Paul meetup groups sprouting spontaneously *around the world*?

Meanwhile our own nation’s infrastructure is crumbling, one bridge at a time. Our education system is failing to keep up with even the basics (52% illiteracy rate in Los Angeles Unified Public Schools alone!). Our soils are being depleted and crops failing from it in the name of GMOs and corporate profit from non-sustainable petroagriculture, so we get garbage-quality foods loaded with addictive chemicals like MSG to hide the bad taste and quality and make us obese. We’ve sacrificed far too much at the altar of technology and so-called “advancement”. Pollution and avoidable diseases are running like rampant, especially obesity and addiction (from both legal and illegal drugs!).

It’s time to get back to basics!

Skip the enertainment. Educate the kids. Rebuild the infrastructure. Restore the heartland. Let people be free and responsible for themselves instead of slaving away for The Corporate Man and The Government Man.

How does Ron Paul fit into that? He represents those very ideals. He wants to get the federal government back to its basics to free up the people and resources to do all the other basics at the state and local level. We don’t NEED a federal nanny. The whole premise of the vertical checks and balances that used to exist in the Constitution (before 1913) were to have the states and people handcuff the federal government from getting out of control. Since then the states have lost their voice to the 17th Amendment, the debit economy has been taken hostage by the Federal Reserve and mutated into a credit economy, and the people have lost their voice by the 16th Amendment, the Patriot Act, and a slew of other legislation that has sucked away the Bill of Rights like water down a power-flush toilet. Ron Paul represents what worked then and that it can work again IF WE HELP HIM GET THERE! He wants to help us, but to help us, we need to help him. In the end, by helping him, we really do help ourselves.

Their commander-in-chief has given them a job, and as they should do; they are attempting to do it. (But when they get in the voting booth or the run up to it, Ron Paul is the leading recipient of military contributions out of ALL the Presidential candidates now running in both parties. What does that tell you?)
Just come home.
I am tired of the killing and the 5 year old girls being deliberately killed because they happen to be in a house with the #2 bad guy in Iraq. Necessary collateral damage? She and her mother did not deserve to die. I do not want to be part of the killing. How would you like it, if it were your 5 year old daughter, sister, niece, or grand daughter? Oh it’s OK! It is just collateral damage in an unwinnable war. Again more sarcasm.
I am ashamed of America.
I want Osama Bin Laden and George Bush in jail together for war crimes. Osama can not get to Bush and Bush can not kill Osama. So they both think it is OK to kill a lot of other innocent people who just want to live in peace without suffering.
Ron Paul is right:
“Just come home.” ……. “Just come home.”

And let’s get a new President AND let’s catch Osama bin Laden.

Why are people afraid of FREEDOM? Why are people afraid of reducing federal govt down to its Constitutionally authorized purpose? Why are people so afraid to be responsible for themselves instead of depending on the govt to take care of their every need?

It’s not like the govt is doing a good job; it’s doing a horrid job, actually! With the supposedly superior intelligence of the CIA, the advanced military, being the ONLY superpower in the world, having a full arsenal of nuclear weapons — we still could not prevent 911?! And look at the mess of Katrina, as another non-terrorist-related example. We are so weakened militarily, our borders are wide open, we wouldn’t even be able to protect ourselves in another attack.

Why is it people still want to allow the federal govt to have so much control, so much input into their lives, when the govt has failed so miserably?

Ron Paul represents an acknowledgment of the failure of our federal govt to provide the people what they claim they will provide (and charging us an arm & a leg while they’re at it, along with the cost of our liberties & God-given civil rights).

That’s what scares people - having to admit that our govt HAS ALREADY FAILED US. The average person will not believe that until there is a huge stock market crash & the economy collapses in a big, undeniable way, and we become the type of prisoners in our land as say the Russians were under the Soviet Union. People don’t want to believe it now, because that means they would HAVE TO take action.

I support Ron Paul not because I believe in every stance he takes, but because if we keep living under the neo-con leadership (Democrat or Republican) I know I will no longer have the freedom to protest any of the issues I care about. I will lose my civil rights further & further, big corporations will continue to gain power, and the people will be living like serfs no different that in the old days of Europe.

If Ron Paul becomes president, at least these issues would be in the public arena so more Americans could open their eyes to see the fascist state we are becoming.

If Ron Paul becomes president, we have a chance at reversing this trend and returning to a free, secure and prosperous America.

Peace.

The hard truth is that the average Iraqi didn’t want out brand of democracy. So it’s not much of a suprise they aren’t willing to fight to keep it. And despite civilian casualties they aren’t going to side with what they justifiably see as the occuping force of invaders. Just think of our own country. Many don’t like the current president. Even calling for impeachement. But do you seriously think we would support say China if they attacked and deposed him? Hell no, we would be fighting from every rooftop and forest. Assuming the facist leaning idiot has left us any guns to fight with by then. =)

I support Ron, and Ames proved the conspiracy of a few online hackers is bull. Of course most reasonble folks already knew that. As I see it, we won’t have as many hostile threats to deal with once he is elected. As far as foreighn relations, Canada, Britian, Germany, and France all have groups of citizens that support Paul. They can’t vote, but how many other canidates can say they are popular in other countrys? A policy of a millitarly strong non interventionst country will help repair our world respect.

Al Qaeda can not be defeated by a conventional war, for they are not a conventional enemy. The foe is a multinational terror group, and should be attacked surgicaly. Air strikes, missle strikes, and special ops raids. We are by no means the only country, let others work towards this while we put our constitution back together. Might we get bombed? Won’t be the first time. But now everyone is terrifed of the ideal because of fear mongering. Good think the soviets didn’t car bomb us and bring our country crashing down. Come on folks, we faced down 40,000 nucular weapons and a massive soviet army for about 60 years. I think we can survive a group of terrorists.

During WWII there was no CIA, It was established in 1947, and made secret and unaccountable in 1949. Shortly thereafter we started not having congress declare wars, and not winning wars. Spying should be done through Department of state, and through department of defense, and should be accountable to congress.

He believes the most import job of any one in public office is to protect the Constitution. Plain and simple.

Any one who tries to attack Ron Paul on issues, better go and read the Constitution first and foremost.

Ron Paul 2008.
The rEVOLution will be Youtubed!

Because the CIA has been so right on? This organization has been a mess from the start and apparently their failed intelligence got us 9/11 AND Iraq, so I don’t think creating the DHS was the answer. And with the “just leave” portion, do you mean to tell me that we actually care about the Iraqi people? I mean if we leave wouldn’t there just be bloodshed between the two tribes, which would be killing off all of these terrorists? Isn’t this a reason why we are really in the Middle East, because they are having 10 times as many births as Americans, which in 2 generations will have them outnumbering us by millions and millions of Muslims, err people?

If we can adopt a non-interventionist policy we won’t have to worry about the Arabs storming our beaches, because despite all of the lies you hear they don’t hate us for our freedoms, they hate us because we believe we have the freedom to march around their land try to make it into the next big free-market.