I am sitting here watching this lowlife on the Glenn Beck show and it makes my blood boil every time I see him. According to him it is our fault that we were attacked on 9/11. The Republican party should be ashamed of itself for putting this lying, filthy moron on a stage to spout his insane, extremist views. Ron Paul is a pacifist loon who knows nothing about the Koran and only believes we were attacked because we are occupying Muslims countries. What country were we occupying on 9/11? Certainly not Saudi Arabia. We were, and still are there because the Saudi government asked us to be there. But to a lying loon like Ron Paul, that is an occupation.
The people of his district should also be ashamed of themselves, but it seems like people across the country are more motivated by greed than by any standard that would place a man of sane disposition in office. Ron Paul brings home the pork. So does senile racist Robert Byrd. The man has in recent years been making a total fool of himself on the Senate floor, and yet the people of West Virginia still voted him back into office. The only explanation can be the incredible amounts of pork that the man brings home to his state. And if you go to West Virginia, you will see evidence of it everwhere. Robert Byrd’s name is on building all over the state, buildings that were built with your tax money. Winston Church said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”Byrd and Paul are living proof of how wrong democracy can go.
Well this is an old blog post, but I found it randomly through Google so here’s a response in defense of Ron Paul’s position.
According to this article from Fox News - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85446,00.html
“…the presence of American forces here has long been an irritant for Saudi rulers facing strong anti-American sentiment among a growing and increasingly restive population. Fifteen of the 19 alleged Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis, and Saudi-born Osama bin Laden cites the U.S. military presence in his homeland as a reason for his hatred of America.”
Even if our troops were there at the invitation of the Saudi government, it well-known that their government does not represent the will of the people. Apparently Bin Laden perceived our presence there as an occupation.
Also, Ron Paul votes against every appropriations bill. However, because his district is paying loads of taxes, just like every other district, it is Ron Paul’s duty to represent his constituents and try to get some of that money back in the form of earmarks. If Ron Paul did not submit the earmarks, that money, which has already been appropriated, would be taken by an earmark for another district or just spent without oversight by the Executive branch.