Ron Paul - you see him on the TV around election time

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Byron,

it turns out Ron Paul is from the county just south
of here. OUR congersman is also again the war he 
being way on the liberal side of liberal dems, Lloyd
Doggett.

Libertarians and Liberals unite against the war!

the world turned upside down it looks like

Mike

Tim forwards the URL for an interview with Ron Paul

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1246

Tim comments:

<<
his heart's in the right place ...an anti-war,
anti-interventionist, anti-busybody Republican. It's
hard to believe that he's still there. But I'm glad he
is.
>>

I seem to agree with Tim--and R.P.!:

>From the article:

<<
Texas Observer: Is it inevitable we will go to war
with Iraq? 

Ron Paul: I would say the odds are 98 percent. Only a
miracle will save us from committing this overt act of
aggression. I think this will be a gift for Osama bin
Laden. He will be the beneficiary of it. He hates
Saddam Hussein. He has a better chance of getting one
of his men [in power] after we cause a lot of
disruption over there. And besides, his recruiting
operation is going to get a real boost. We are going
to prove to many Muslims around the world exactly what
he has been telling them all along, that we are over
there to dominate, to control, and to get the oil. I
think we have fallen into that trap. 
  
TO: Why haven’t more people seen through this effort
to link Hussein to the war on terrorism? 

RP: It seems that those who advise the president,
those who control foreign policy, need another war for
various reasons: whether it has to do with the oil or
this principle that we are such good people that we
know what is best; our views should dominate. I think
they believe it almost like a religion. What has
happened is that they have been able to control the
propaganda. Even if there are some in Washington who
have questioned this–and many of them did question
it–the propaganda has been so powerful. All [Congress]
had to do was look at the polls and say, "Oh, the
polls show that we must do this." I have told others,
and I am convinced that if Bill Clinton was doing
exactly what the president is doing today, I bet I
wouldn’t be a lonely Republican. I bet I would have a
lot of Republican supporters on my side.... But now
it’s a Republican president, and he can do no wrong. 
  
  
  
TO: Has 9/11 changed how the U.S. should operate in
the world? 

RP: I just think it has taken a foreign policy that
was seriously flawed and given it more momentum. Now
it’s just going further and faster and there is less
resistance. 
>>

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-Byron

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