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		<title>By: Truth Stings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eric Dondero.  The man that was fired by Ron Paul&#039;s campaign and now holds a grudge.  Still holding that grudge little buddy?  Why don&#039;t you answer the point that others have made?  Why did Ron Paul receive more donations from active duty military than all other candidates combined?  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eric Dondero.  The man that was fired by Ron Paul&#8217;s campaign and now holds a grudge.  Still holding that grudge little buddy?  Why don&#8217;t you answer the point that others have made?  Why did Ron Paul receive more donations from active duty military than all other candidates combined?</p>
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		<title>By: Jared L</title>
		<link>http://www.rlc.org/ron-paul-2012-2/comment-page-1/#comment-20350</link>
		<dc:creator>Jared L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are officially the poster child for the uneducated. Ron Paul did just as well against Obama in the hypothetical as Romney and Huckabee. 

Ron Paul is not weak on terrorism, do some research. Ron Paul is probably the only one who understands the actual problem, and unlike the other GOP hopefuls has actually read the 9/11 commission report and the CIA analysis for the cause of 9/11.

Here&#039;s a quick history lesson, kid.

Those documents listed blowback from our constant overseas interactions as the primary motivating factor in the recruitment of the Saudi terrorists that hijacked those planes on September eleventh.

The CIA ASSASINATED the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, and then installed the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The shah was a jack booted fascist, who had secret police, that tortured and murdered thousands of people, with the full support of the United States government. 

In &#039;79, I don&#039;t know if you are old enough to remember that year, but the Iranians overthrew the shah and installed their own dictator Ayatollah Khomeini. They held 444 Americans hostage. Following this there was a war between Iran and Iraq. 

Who did we back, you ask? None other than Saddam Hussein. In the 80&#039;s, the U.S. government approved millions and millions of dollars in arms sales to Iraq, to help fight the Iranians. Guess what happened? You guessed it. Hussein backed terrorists and committed crimes against humanity, with the weapons we sold him! Then he invades Kuwait and we go after him!

Draw you&#039;re own conclusions as to why they attacked us on September eleventh. 

Draw your own conclusions as to whether or not it&#039;s good to meddle in the affairs of other nations. 

Draw your own conclusions as to why they can recruit so many, so easily.



These matters are serious and can not be won over by empty suits with catchy campaign slogans. These issues can&#039;t be solved by men who don&#039;t study history and who have never served on a committee for foreign relations.


&quot;Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.&quot;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are officially the poster child for the uneducated. Ron Paul did just as well against Obama in the hypothetical as Romney and Huckabee. </p>
<p>Ron Paul is not weak on terrorism, do some research. Ron Paul is probably the only one who understands the actual problem, and unlike the other GOP hopefuls has actually read the 9/11 commission report and the CIA analysis for the cause of 9/11.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick history lesson, kid.</p>
<p>Those documents listed blowback from our constant overseas interactions as the primary motivating factor in the recruitment of the Saudi terrorists that hijacked those planes on September eleventh.</p>
<p>The CIA ASSASINATED the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, and then installed the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The shah was a jack booted fascist, who had secret police, that tortured and murdered thousands of people, with the full support of the United States government. </p>
<p>In &#8217;79, I don&#8217;t know if you are old enough to remember that year, but the Iranians overthrew the shah and installed their own dictator Ayatollah Khomeini. They held 444 Americans hostage. Following this there was a war between Iran and Iraq. </p>
<p>Who did we back, you ask? None other than Saddam Hussein. In the 80&#8242;s, the U.S. government approved millions and millions of dollars in arms sales to Iraq, to help fight the Iranians. Guess what happened? You guessed it. Hussein backed terrorists and committed crimes against humanity, with the weapons we sold him! Then he invades Kuwait and we go after him!</p>
<p>Draw you&#8217;re own conclusions as to why they attacked us on September eleventh. </p>
<p>Draw your own conclusions as to whether or not it&#8217;s good to meddle in the affairs of other nations. </p>
<p>Draw your own conclusions as to why they can recruit so many, so easily.</p>
<p>These matters are serious and can not be won over by empty suits with catchy campaign slogans. These issues can&#8217;t be solved by men who don&#8217;t study history and who have never served on a committee for foreign relations.</p>
<p>&#8220;Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.&#8221;<br />
-Thomas Jefferson</p>
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		<title>By: W6x</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ron Paul receive more donations from the military than any other 208 Presidential candidate. Think about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul receive more donations from the military than any other 208 Presidential candidate. Think about it.</p>
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		<title>By: taylor4ronpaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eric,  you are advocating for more of the same.  Our non-interventionist philosophy cannot be compromised to gain votes from neo-con, pro-war idiots.  This is an intellectual revolution.  Whether or not Ron Paul wins is irrelevant to the movement that has started and this movement will only grow until everybody wakes up and realizes they were wrong on foreign policy.  Even if it takes a collapse for people to realize they were wrong, it will happen whether you like it or not.  You can&#039;t stop this train of liberty.  Go back to sleep you weakling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eric,  you are advocating for more of the same.  Our non-interventionist philosophy cannot be compromised to gain votes from neo-con, pro-war idiots.  This is an intellectual revolution.  Whether or not Ron Paul wins is irrelevant to the movement that has started and this movement will only grow until everybody wakes up and realizes they were wrong on foreign policy.  Even if it takes a collapse for people to realize they were wrong, it will happen whether you like it or not.  You can&#8217;t stop this train of liberty.  Go back to sleep you weakling.</p>
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		<title>By: E Mazur</title>
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		<dc:creator>E Mazur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>B/c Obama is on track to collapse the economy and the dollar to the point where there will be NO money for national defense.
*****
Bin Laden had announced his plan to bankrupt the U.S. through war at least as far back as 2004.  Al Jazeera transcribed his taped message
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm
    All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

    This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

    All Praise is due to Allah.

    So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
*****
Dr. Jerome Corsi reported on a 2010 Joint Operating Environment report released by the United States Joint Forces Command concerning America&#039;s debt
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=128413
    The JOE 2010 correctly noted that the unfunded obligations constituting the nation&#039;s $70.7 trillion negative net worth are a result of the U.S. baby-boom generation coming of age to receive entitlement benefits in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, while the underlying working population that pays to support the programs is declining as a consequence of both demographics and unemployment.

    With regard to national-defense implications of the deteriorating U.S. economic position, the JOE 2010 worried that should China demand higher interest rates as an inducement to continuing to buy the U.S. Treasury debt needed to finance continuing trillion-dollar U.S. federal budget deficits, the U.S. could suffer a &quot;hard landing&quot; that could increase the perception the U.S. no longer controls its financial future.

    Noting President Obama&#039;s warning that the U.S. economy will add $9 trillion debt over the next decade, the JOE 2010 warned the result could be &quot;a decreased ability of the United States to allocate dollars to defense.&quot;
*****
Gregory Zerzan was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President George W. Bush.  In his October 2009 article entitled &quot;Dollar is a National Security Issue&quot;, he wrote
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/16/dollar-is-a-national-security-issue/
    The ability to cripple the U.S. economy by massively devaluing the dollar is the type of &quot;asymmetric warfare&quot; that the People&#039;s Liberation Army has discussed openly in recent years. This is not to suggest that the People&#039;s Republic wants to destroy the dollar, nor that doing so would come without cost. But such power would clearly give China tremendous leverage.
*****
The greater the percentage of the U.S budget that goes towards paying the debt, the less productive the economy becomes, and the less money America has to provide for a national defense.  It is a serious problem and a March 2010 Zogby poll revealed
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1824
    More than twice as many U.S. adults (58%) say that debt owed to China is a more serious threat to the long-term security and well-being of the U.S than is terrorism from radical Islamic terrorists (27%). Interestingly there was little variation by party identification with a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents all agreeing that the debt owed by the United States to China poses the greater threat.
*****
Ron Paul has sounded the alarm bell on this issue earlier.  In a piece titled &quot;The End of Dollar Hegemony&quot; from February 2006, he said
http://valuefreedom.blogspot.com/2008/05/ron-paul-told-us-so-economics.html#Dollar_Hegemony
    &quot;In the short run, the issuer of a fiat reserve currency can accrue great economic benefits. In the long run, it poses a threat to the country issuing the world currency. In this case that’s the United States. As long as foreign countries take our dollars in return for real goods, we come out ahead. This is a benefit many in Congress fail to recognize, as they bash China for maintaining a positive trade balance with us. But this leads to a loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas markets, as we become more dependent on others and less self-sufficient. Foreign countries accumulate our dollars due to their high savings rates, and graciously loan them back to us at low interest rates to finance our excessive consumption.

    It sounds like a great deal for everyone, except the time will come when our dollars-- due to their depreciation-- will be received less enthusiastically or even be rejected by foreign countries. That could create a whole new ballgame and force us to pay a price for living beyond our means and our production. The shift in sentiment regarding the dollar has already started, but the worst is yet to come.
*****
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>B/c Obama is on track to collapse the economy and the dollar to the point where there will be NO money for national defense.<br />
*****<br />
Bin Laden had announced his plan to bankrupt the U.S. through war at least as far back as 2004.  Al Jazeera transcribed his taped message<br />
<a href="http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm</a><br />
    All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.</p>
<p>    This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.</p>
<p>    All Praise is due to Allah.</p>
<p>    So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.<br />
*****<br />
Dr. Jerome Corsi reported on a 2010 Joint Operating Environment report released by the United States Joint Forces Command concerning America&#8217;s debt<br />
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=128413" rel="nofollow">http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=128413</a><br />
    The JOE 2010 correctly noted that the unfunded obligations constituting the nation&#8217;s $70.7 trillion negative net worth are a result of the U.S. baby-boom generation coming of age to receive entitlement benefits in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, while the underlying working population that pays to support the programs is declining as a consequence of both demographics and unemployment.</p>
<p>    With regard to national-defense implications of the deteriorating U.S. economic position, the JOE 2010 worried that should China demand higher interest rates as an inducement to continuing to buy the U.S. Treasury debt needed to finance continuing trillion-dollar U.S. federal budget deficits, the U.S. could suffer a &#8220;hard landing&#8221; that could increase the perception the U.S. no longer controls its financial future.</p>
<p>    Noting President Obama&#8217;s warning that the U.S. economy will add $9 trillion debt over the next decade, the JOE 2010 warned the result could be &#8220;a decreased ability of the United States to allocate dollars to defense.&#8221;<br />
*****<br />
Gregory Zerzan was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President George W. Bush.  In his October 2009 article entitled &#8220;Dollar is a National Security Issue&#8221;, he wrote<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/16/dollar-is-a-national-security-issue/" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/16/dollar-is-a-national-security-issue/</a><br />
    The ability to cripple the U.S. economy by massively devaluing the dollar is the type of &#8220;asymmetric warfare&#8221; that the People&#8217;s Liberation Army has discussed openly in recent years. This is not to suggest that the People&#8217;s Republic wants to destroy the dollar, nor that doing so would come without cost. But such power would clearly give China tremendous leverage.<br />
*****<br />
The greater the percentage of the U.S budget that goes towards paying the debt, the less productive the economy becomes, and the less money America has to provide for a national defense.  It is a serious problem and a March 2010 Zogby poll revealed<br />
<a href="http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1824" rel="nofollow">http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1824</a><br />
    More than twice as many U.S. adults (58%) say that debt owed to China is a more serious threat to the long-term security and well-being of the U.S than is terrorism from radical Islamic terrorists (27%). Interestingly there was little variation by party identification with a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents all agreeing that the debt owed by the United States to China poses the greater threat.<br />
*****<br />
Ron Paul has sounded the alarm bell on this issue earlier.  In a piece titled &#8220;The End of Dollar Hegemony&#8221; from February 2006, he said<br />
<a href="http://valuefreedom.blogspot.com/2008/05/ron-paul-told-us-so-economics.html#Dollar_Hegemony" rel="nofollow">http://valuefreedom.blogspot.com/2008/05/ron-paul-told-us-so-economics.html#Dollar_Hegemony</a><br />
    &#8220;In the short run, the issuer of a fiat reserve currency can accrue great economic benefits. In the long run, it poses a threat to the country issuing the world currency. In this case that’s the United States. As long as foreign countries take our dollars in return for real goods, we come out ahead. This is a benefit many in Congress fail to recognize, as they bash China for maintaining a positive trade balance with us. But this leads to a loss of manufacturing jobs to overseas markets, as we become more dependent on others and less self-sufficient. Foreign countries accumulate our dollars due to their high savings rates, and graciously loan them back to us at low interest rates to finance our excessive consumption.</p>
<p>    It sounds like a great deal for everyone, except the time will come when our dollars&#8211; due to their depreciation&#8211; will be received less enthusiastically or even be rejected by foreign countries. That could create a whole new ballgame and force us to pay a price for living beyond our means and our production. The shift in sentiment regarding the dollar has already started, but the worst is yet to come.<br />
*****</p>
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		<title>By: Tony M</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eric, pro-military wouldn&#039;t.  Cause&#039;s and answers lie with understanding and accepting all of history, not just the parts one wants to.

Are you going to be a bender?  A bender is one who is going to voluntarily bend over to have their anus examined by a stranger at one of our statist checkpoints in the name of honor to fight terrorism.

The position of  Islam taking over America is with the philosophy of being weak.  Toughen up.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eric, pro-military wouldn&#8217;t.  Cause&#8217;s and answers lie with understanding and accepting all of history, not just the parts one wants to.</p>
<p>Are you going to be a bender?  A bender is one who is going to voluntarily bend over to have their anus examined by a stranger at one of our statist checkpoints in the name of honor to fight terrorism.</p>
<p>The position of  Islam taking over America is with the philosophy of being weak.  Toughen up.</p>
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		<title>By: Ericdondero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ericdondero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s a question for the Paulists.  Why would any Strong on Defense Republican have any incentive to vote for Ron Paul?  He was a guest on Hannity&#039;s show the other night.  Hannity gave him 3 opportunities - THREE! - to answer if he thought Radical Islam posed a threat to the United States.  Each time he weaved, and dithered, then changed the subject.  It was pitiful.

Say Ron Paul by some miracle were to win the GOP nomination.  Let&#039;s say for argument&#039;s sake, there&#039;s a nasty battle between Huckabee and Romney.  They beat up and each other, and RP the only alternative left in the race, manages to squeek through with more delegates.

Okay, with that scenario, what do you think the Voter who is concerned about Radical Islam is going to do?

They&#039;ve got a choice between a guy who is completely soft on terrorism, almost to the point of Dennis Kucinich, Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore, versus Barack Hussein Obama.

Don&#039;t you think one of two things would happen?  Either some third party Pro-Defense candidate like Allen West, Peter King or some former General would emerge for the Reagan Conservative vote, or saving that the massive Pro-America Strength constituency would just stay home and not vote for Paul, the GOP nominee.  

Result?  He would lose badly to Obama.

Again, someone, please answer this question.  Why would any Pro-Mlitary/Pro-Defense voter in the GOP support Ron Paul?



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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a question for the Paulists.  Why would any Strong on Defense Republican have any incentive to vote for Ron Paul?  He was a guest on Hannity&#8217;s show the other night.  Hannity gave him 3 opportunities &#8211; THREE! &#8211; to answer if he thought Radical Islam posed a threat to the United States.  Each time he weaved, and dithered, then changed the subject.  It was pitiful.</p>
<p>Say Ron Paul by some miracle were to win the GOP nomination.  Let&#8217;s say for argument&#8217;s sake, there&#8217;s a nasty battle between Huckabee and Romney.  They beat up and each other, and RP the only alternative left in the race, manages to squeek through with more delegates.</p>
<p>Okay, with that scenario, what do you think the Voter who is concerned about Radical Islam is going to do?</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve got a choice between a guy who is completely soft on terrorism, almost to the point of Dennis Kucinich, Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore, versus Barack Hussein Obama.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you think one of two things would happen?  Either some third party Pro-Defense candidate like Allen West, Peter King or some former General would emerge for the Reagan Conservative vote, or saving that the massive Pro-America Strength constituency would just stay home and not vote for Paul, the GOP nominee.  </p>
<p>Result?  He would lose badly to Obama.</p>
<p>Again, someone, please answer this question.  Why would any Pro-Mlitary/Pro-Defense voter in the GOP support Ron Paul?</p>
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