I'm not mad at Ron Paul. I'm just appalled (excuse the expression) that anyone would take him seriously as a potential president.
Paul is on record over and over again as saying that the terrorists only mess with America because we are mean to the Islamic world. In other words, he believes that America is the bad guy, and al Quaeda and the other terrorists are the good guys.
If O'Neill truly didn't know why Iraq needed to be invaded, he hadn't been paying attention for the previous twelve years while Saddam played games with the UN inspectors and ignored UN demands that he rid himself of WMD's he admitted having- *under UN supervision.*
The invasion simply enforced literally a dozen of UN resolutions, as well as the peace treaty which ended the First Gulf War- which also required him to destroy WMD's he acknowledged having.
He didn't. Nobody knew at the time of the invasion that Saddam had incomprehensibly rid himself (temporarily) of those WMD's before the invasion- but concealed it in order to try to profit from their potential ability to intimidate! No sane person doubts that had we not invaded Iraq, Saddam would have gone back and rebuilt the WMD stockpile every intelligence service in the world sait that he had, and which he had used on his own people.
BTW, in case you missed it, the British parliamentary committee (created by a Conservative, anti-Blair government that wanted to discredit the war) concluded that Joe Wilson was wrong, and that Saddam had indeed attempted to obtain that yellow cake uranium in Africa.
The bottom line, though, is that an American president ought- unlike Ron Paul- to be on our side,rather than that of the terrorists- whether their names are Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden! Paul has sided with both against his own country.
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In the book, O'Neill is quoted as saying he was surprised that no one in a National Security Council meeting asked why Iraq should be invaded.
"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" O'Neill said.
Don't get mad at Ron Paul.
Paul is on record over and over again as saying that the terrorists only mess with America because we are mean to the Islamic world. In other words, he believes that America is the bad guy, and al Quaeda and the other terrorists are the good guys.
If O'Neill truly didn't know why Iraq needed to be invaded, he hadn't been paying attention for the previous twelve years while Saddam played games with the UN inspectors and ignored UN demands that he rid himself of WMD's he admitted having- *under UN supervision.*
The invasion simply enforced literally a dozen of UN resolutions, as well as the peace treaty which ended the First Gulf War- which also required him to destroy WMD's he acknowledged having.
He didn't. Nobody knew at the time of the invasion that Saddam had incomprehensibly rid himself (temporarily) of those WMD's before the invasion- but concealed it in order to try to profit from their potential ability to intimidate! No sane person doubts that had we not invaded Iraq, Saddam would have gone back and rebuilt the WMD stockpile every intelligence service in the world sait that he had, and which he had used on his own people.
BTW, in case you missed it, the British parliamentary committee (created by a Conservative, anti-Blair government that wanted to discredit the war) concluded that Joe Wilson was wrong, and that Saddam had indeed attempted to obtain that yellow cake uranium in Africa.
The bottom line, though, is that an American president ought- unlike Ron Paul- to be on our side,rather than that of the terrorists- whether their names are Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden! Paul has sided with both against his own country.