Ron Paul on 9/11: "[Government] set up the stage for this"

[Dig]

To the notion that his libertarian approach to security could threaten passenger safety, Paul said that exactly the reverse was true.

It was government policy, he said, that helped make 9/11 possible.

“They told the pilots they couldn’t have guns,” Paul said.

“They set up the stage for this.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62934.html

[chris jones]

 Boy did he slam that one in there!
He has done the impossible considering todays mindset, MSM head bangers, the Goverment is not our savior by any FK means.
 Bless his heart.

[decepticon]

Between this, the 'silver dime', the fences, the innoculations. Paul gives America a choice for change, real change. No it's not that ear-tickling more of the same 'change' they voted for in 2008, it's real change. Change, you see, is DIFFERENT. When you hear change, believe it or not, it won't sound like everything else.

If they choose just another rub my belly, tickle my ear and throw me a bone please master 'leader', then it gets what it deserves plain and simple. This country will never be able to say it didn't have a real choice, it does.

I hate to say it, but I will while I still can. We may lose this country patriots, but there is no shame in us who fought for her. Quite simply many of our countrymen are willfully ignorant decadents. We have done all we can, and that is all we can do, if that gives you any respite.

"We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it."
-Benjamin Franklin

[Dig]

Between this, the 'silver dime', the fences, the innoculations. Paul gives America a choice for change, real change. No it's not that ear-tickling more of the same 'change' they voted for in 2008, it's real change. Change, you see, is DIFFERENT. When you hear change, believe it or not, it won't sound like everything else.

If they choose just another rub my belly, tickle my ear and throw me a bone please master 'leader', then it gets what it deserves plain and simple. This country will never be able to say it didn't have a real choice, it does.

I hate to say it, but I will while I still can. We may lose this country patriots, but there is no shame in us who fought for her. Quite simply many of our countrymen are willfully ignorant decadents. We have done all we can, and that is all we can do, if that gives you any respite.

"We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers;
but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert,
but that I never deserted her. I know that the great volcano at Washington,
aroused and directed by the evil spirit that reigns there, is belching forth
the lava of political corruption in a current broad and deep, which is
sweeping with frightful velocity over the whole length and breadth of the
land, bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot or living thing; while
on its bosom are riding, like demons on the waves of hell, the imps of that
evil spirit, and fiendishly taunting all those who dare resist its destroying
course with the hopelessness of their effort; and, knowing this, I cannot
deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it I, too, may be;
bow to it I never will.  
~Abraham Lincoln
This was spoken in 1839

[chris jones]

 That is the first time I have read that quote, WOW, impressed doesn't get close, (this man was inspired).

[chris jones]

Between this, the 'silver dime', the fences, the innoculations. Paul gives America a choice for change, real change. No it's not that ear-tickling more of the same 'change' they voted for in 2008, it's real change. Change, you see, is DIFFERENT. When you hear change, believe it or not, it won't sound like everything else.
If they choose just another rub my belly, tickle my ear and throw me a bone please master 'leader', then it gets what it deserves plain and simple. This country will never be able to say it didn't have a real choice, it does.
I hate to say it, but I will while I still can. We may lose this country patriots, but there is no shame in us who fought for her. Quite simply many of our countrymen are willfully ignorant decadents. We have done all we can, and that is all we can do, if that gives you any respite.
"We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it."
-Benjamin Franklin

Hi D.. Well siad..!

[Sasha]

"...set up the stage for this"?, indeed they did:


US 'planned attack on Taleban'
BBC, By George Arney
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550366.stm
Tuesday, 18 September, 200111:27 GMT 12:27 UK

A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.

Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.

Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.

Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar.

The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah.

Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place.

He was told that Uzbekistan would also participate in the operation and that 17,000 Russian troops were on standby.

Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.

He said that he was in no doubt that after the World Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had been built upon and would be implemented within two or three weeks.

And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban.