Video: Rudy Vs. Ron Paul on 9/11
Posted on October 9, 2007
Mitt Romney continues to impress with a great presense and confidence. Rudy is already campaigning against Hillary in the debates instead of the other candidates. He acts like he already has it in the bag. That is good, but it also comes across kinda smug to me.
Did Thompson shine? Not particularly. Actually, for the most part, the whole debate was a snorefest in my opinion. One of the only things that woke me up was this little spat. As always, Ron Paul opens himself up and asks for it.
Before debating in the comments…let me point out a great comment from freerepublic.
Didn’t see the debate but did watch the exchange. Japan did attack us so both Rudy and Ron missed that one. Have to go with the Ron that it was 19 thugs and not a nation. Rudy pointed out Pakistan and Afghanistan, as a country they had nothing to do with the attack. But since he suggested these two countries he should have thrown in Saudi Arabi who made up most of the terrorist.
Rudy should know that Pakistan is one of our allies, or at least they claim to be.
It was still a good slam by Rudy aimed well to an audience. And to Rudy, everything is 9/11. Oh, and in no way am I rooting for Rudy. I think just about anyone can hit a homerun when bouncing off a Ron Paul rant.
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Chris pounded the GOP candidates re: whether or not the president can use force, constitutionally, without Congressional approval. He refered to some apparent legislation by Hillary that requires the president to get Congressional approval before striking Iran.
In light of Bill Clinton’s past, how can this be a serious question framed within the Hillary context, and why did he hound the GOP so much on it but not call Hillary on her hypocrisy. Someone tell me when Clinton got Congressional approval to bomb Iraq in 1998 (3 days after the Monica story broke).
Chris also asked whether they would take action even if Congress denied authority, which is precisely what Clinton did in Kosovo. How long will this charade continue where the GOP is pounded for being willing to act in the threat of danger in light of recent history where a president acted in light of no imminent danger to the US (Kosovo) and against a country we’re now supposed to believe was no threat to us at all and had no weapons?
Chrissy needs to be called on this so that he asks Hillary to explain her hypocrisy, or perhaps Hillary needs to have another talk with Bill about why the rules are one way for him but different for her, as was recently shown to be the case with torture and the ticking time bomb scenerio.
I can see the dems and their media enablers are going to try to play the Goldwater Daisy meme by painting the GOP as wild press the button types meanwhile, history has shown a) Clinton bombed a country w/o Congressional approval and b) he did so when there was no threat whatsoever to the US and in the face of explicity Congressional denial of authority. Clinton had the US engaged in more conflicts than Bush. Bush got Congressional authorization, unlike Bill, from people now claiming it was a sham and yet they claim they have the judgment to lead when it was their judgment in part that lead us to Iraq.
Did Clinton get a declaration of war when he bombed Kosovo civilians?
Also, Ron Paul claimed we have never been under an imminent
attack in 220 years. Where was he on December 7th, 1941?
Where was he September 11th, 2001?
Rep. Paul may have misspoke when he said we were never under the threat of an imminent attack, however, he is absolutely correct in saying that we need to have a Congressional declaration of war to go to war. This is the real issue. This country has been in a nearly continuous state of war since the end of WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Gulf War I, Bosnia, Kosovo, contiued bombing of Iraq after Gulf War I, Afghanistan, and now Iraq again, the list is exhausting. Not a single one of these conflicts has had a Constitutionally directed declaration of war. By the way, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional. The Constitution says the Congress has to declare war. Article 1, section 8, if anybody cares anymore.
I will never understand why people keep relating this to 9/11.
9/11 was not the result of countries getting together and plotting to destroy us, they were carried out by 19 extremists in which the majority had come from Saudi Arabia, not Afghanistan or Pakistan like Giuliani would have you believe.
It’s a very sad time for this country if we honestly have presidential candidates who need to look towards their lawyers in order to find out if going to war without the consent of the congress is unconstitutional.
There’s a reason that the foremost expert on Bin Laden supports Ron Paul. Those that criticize him might want to read a little more on terrorism rather than watch Fox News all day.
In WWII we were dealing with the threat - We were in negotiations with the Japanese when they attacked, remember. Of course, there are still questions about FDR’s role in allowing the Pearl Harbor attack to occur.
Rudy Giuliani was completely wrong when he insinuated we could have stopped the 911 attacks by attacking afghanistan prior to 911. In fact, the terrorists were in the US for several years LEARNING TO FLY THE PLANES. The FBI was AWARE and they missed it. Second, we had indeed attacked both Sudan, and Afghanistan prior to 911, both attacks completely ineffective. Further, Al Queda has Carried out attacks in London, and spain since we invaded afghanistan. In fact, US businessmen were negotiating financial deals with the Taliban, and the US govt allowed that.
So Giuliani was terribly wrong with what he said, despite the media’s tricks.
FRED THOMPSON WILL SMACK DOWN RON PAUL AS WELL. RUDY IS GOOD FOR
SECURITY BUT HE IS UNELECTABLE BECAUSE HE CROSS DRESSES IN WOMEN’S CLOTHES.
COME TO THE Fred Thompson Forum
AND JOIN THE LEGION OF FRED HEADS. TOGETHER WE CAN STOP THE ISLAMOFASCISTS
AND MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN.