Mon 21 May 2007
Re: Ron Paul & the right-wing’s hatred of foreign policy truth, a thought I just had:
“Heh, the Republican cheerleaders call him an anti-american conspiracy-theorizing surrender monkey for just pointing out that people hate us because of what our government does to them. Imagine if he’d had time to explain why the US government intervened in the first place…”
June 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
[…] In the last GOP debate, one of Fox News’ borg drones implied that Ron Paul, for the apparent sin of opposing a pointless war, isn’t a “real” Republican. Last night, he took it where I would’ve: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said he objects to government subsidies for the oil industry and hammered the Bush administration over its motivation for war in Iraq. “Why did we go to the Middle East?” he said. “Our foreign policy is designed to protect our oil interests. We succumbed to the temptation of going out and fighting war [to secure oil interests].” (emphasis mine) […]