Topic: Ron Paul
Saudi Arabia: The True Cause of the Iraq War? Saudi Arabia as the proximate cause and US foreign policy/oil as the underlying causes of 9/11 and the Iraq War? Anyways, Leave Iraq and Stop the American Military Empire. I agree with Ron Paul and Stephen Colbert.by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
(libertarian)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Let me tell you what I believe.
I believe in freedom of speech (and not to speak). I may not agree with what you say or think, but I will fight for your right to say and think it. I believe the free exchange of ideas is critical for a free society. I believe if you want to write intelligently on the internet and seek truth, it's a good idea to source it so others can offer rebuttal or agreement.
I believe what Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths 2,973 Americans on September the 11th, 2001.1 I want him to stand trial for murder and that the Armed Forces of my country should execute this action with lethal force, but at this point using a small team is better than a massive army to catch a man possibly hiding under rocks and in caves. I believe 15 of the 19 dead hijackers (and Osama) were Saudi nationals.2 I believe none of the hijackers were Iraqi. 2 I believe Bin Laden in August 1996 declared religious fatwa, or crusade, on every man, woman, and child in the United States of America due to our "presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam." 2 The army of infidels are the Armed Forces of my country and Bin Laden was angry we are based closed to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina located in Saudi Arabia.
2 The 9/11 Commission Report. The other hijackers? Two were Emirati, one was Lebanese, one was Egyptian.
The United States military maintained a military of thousands in Saudi Arabia from the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s until our forces were requested by their government to leave in April 2003 per Rums---'s announcement. We downsized our force from 5000 to less than 500 by the end of summer 2003. 3 I speculate Saudi Arabia requested this withdrawal to occur as a direct result of the 9/11 attack to quell internal religious turmoil and suspect this was well prior to the Rums--- announcement. Just prior to this announcement (from Saudi Arabia) we invaded Iraq in March 2003. I charged we invaded Iraq after a long, false propaganda effort by the Bu-- administration of "weapons of mass destruction" and "Iraq's links to Al-Qaeda". 4 I charge my country has decided to maintain a military presence in the Middle East to secure our supply of oil to fuel our economy at the high cost of American soldiers' lives. In other words - if we couldn't maintain our presence in Saudi Arabia, then Iraq was the next best base. I have great respect for the lives of the men and women of our military and I don't want them dying in a foreign desert to secure that black, energy-rich s--- that is ultimately just dead living tissue.. I believe there are other ways to secure our future source of energy, and a great change in the world's economy will come from a cleaner source of energy.
I charge we invaded Iraq to continue safeguarding "our" oil supply in the Middle East and this is morally wrong. Over 3,950 American soldiers have died in that hellish desert and over 29,000 have been wounded. 5 I believe this war is also responsible for the deaths of over 655,000 Iraqis just from March 2003-July 2006. 6 I don't believe the rate of killing has slowed since this time, and assuming a constant rate of deaths, this means possibly over 958,000 Iraqis have died to date. 7 This projection is almost a MILLION lives and the thought of all those people dying - personally, I can't even comprehend that many consciousnesses being extinguished - and continue to die brings tears to my eyes.
IT IS TIME FOR THIS MADNESS TO STOP. BRING MY SOLDIERS HOME, I DON'T WANT THEM TO DIE FOR OIL AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY EMPIRE. There are plenty of other reasons I believe this is a good idea, and Ron Paul has voice many of these, especially the expense of this war. 8 There is also the military-industrial complex, war profiteers like Halliburton, Titan and KBR, among many others. 9
And I don't want to stop there. Most Americans are blissfully unaware we have a global military empire, consisting of roughly 700 bases in 130 of the 190 countries on the face of this earth. 10 I want the 40,000 troops in Japan home. I want the 40,000 troops in South Korea home. I want the 75,000 troops in Germany home. I want the other 40,000 troops we have in the rest of Europe home. Iraq is my generation's Vietnam; the words of the assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have this strange echo. 11 The modern-day words of Dr. Paul resonate with me.
I don't believe President Bush will ever tell the American people the truth of why we invaded Iraq. Watch Stephen Colbert, like the patriot he is, insult and dare him to tell us right to his face, not that I particularly enjoy watching the President of my country embarrassed before my eyes. 12 Watch Stephen Colbert call Ron Paul's argument insane - I mean a Cassandra cry of the truth.- concerning the Iraq War. 13 I am frightened by the possibility of more preemptive Hitleresque wars, more senseless deaths and unhappiness and the possible financial collapse of my country.
12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-4E8ZDj9s
13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsC_0fMjr0
Lastly, I charge this war is unconstitutional since it is the job of Congress to declare war. I cite Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the United States Constitution. 14
My name is Jake and I am the champion of the Constitution of the United States. I believe my country needs a jolt of liberty+freedom and I am here to help the effort. Four months ago I wanted nothing to do with politics. It didn't effect my life significantly... until I wanted this war to end. Nowadays I feel like I awoke in a different reality. I have a lot of other thoughts to share on the private bank that is the Federal Reserve (wish I could buy shares in THAT company!) and democracy (I don't believe in true democracy, and I hate seeing that word bandied around as a synonym for pure good. I believe in the Republic and the code of law.) Don't get me started on MainStreamMedia. But that is for later, give me a break, this is my first post. Any feedback whatsoever is very welcome at [link edited for length].
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There is a book by a guy named George Friedman that details why, in his view, the US invaded Iraq. Friedman runs a company called Stratfor that is basically a private sector intelligence agency; consequently, I am going to believe his word over anything I read on the internet.
Friedman claims that the US attempted to cut off Al-Qaeda's funding from Saudi citizens, which is the main source of their money. The government tried to strongarm the Saudi royalty into cracking down on their citizens, but the Sauds were much more concerned about a possible uprising than from US sanctions or military actions. The US government thus had to prove that it posed a threat to the Saudi royals if they were to force them to crack down on private funds to Al-Qaeda.
If you haven't figured it out by now, our plan to do this was to invade Iraq and prove we were still a menacing force. Frankly, to me this is even worse than invading Iraq for oil, because our only motivation is just to show that we could do it. Also, if you remember 2003, this worked very well initially - we defeated Iraq's conventional military in around 3 weeks.
Of course it just went downhill from there, and now we just look like complete failures that won't intimidate anyone. There are a lot of reasons for this that I won't go into here, but let's just say we got way overconfident about our initial successes.
Thank God for someone who truly sees and hears what the rest of the world seems to know! I am a Canadian who thankfully had a Prime Minister on 9/11 that chose not to go to war. Our present one would have.
Your election, your world, affects ours and ours. yours. We need to start to work together on this planet in truth and love. It's been said Truth without Love is brutality and Love without Truth is sentimentality
Let's love this world with both truth and love clear thinking and kindness.
Posted By: Edu Montesanti
Date: 2009-11-01 07:23:42
Jake:
Your material is translated into Spanish. Please confirm me it.
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