Statement Opposing the use of Military Force against Iraq by Ron Paul

"Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution. The wisdom of the war is one issue, but the process and the philosophy behind our foreign policy are important issues as well. But I have come to the conclusion that I see no threat to our national security. There is no convincing evidence that Iraq is capable of threatening the security of this country, and, therefore, very little reason, if any, to pursue a war.
But I am very interested also in the process that we are pursuing. This is not a resolution to declare war. We know that. This is a resolution that does something much different. This resolution transfers the responsibility, the authority, and the power of the Congress to the President so he can declare war when and if he wants to. He has not even indicated that he wants to go to war or has to go to war; but he will make the full decision, not the Congress, not the people through the Congress of this country in that manner.
It does something else, though. One-half of the resolution delivers this power to the President, but it also instructs him to enforce U.N. resolutions. I happen to think I would rather listen to the President when he talks about unilateralism and national security interests, than accept this responsibility to follow all of the rules and the dictates of the United Nations. That is what this resolution does. It instructs him to follow all of the resolutions.
But an important aspect of the philosophy and the policy we are endorsing here is the preemption doctrine. This should not be passed off lightly. It has been done to some degree in the past, but never been put into law that we will preemptively strike another nation that has not attacked us. No matter what the arguments may be, this policy is new; and it will have ramifications for our future, and it will have ramifications for the future of the world because other countries will adopt this same philosophy."

Ler o restante texto em: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ron_Paul%27s_Iraq_Speech .

Mrs. Bomb Bomb Iran

"A candidata à nomeação democrata Hillary Clinton afirmou que, sefosse Presidente, "apagaria completamente" o Irão caso a República Is-lâmica atacasse Israel com armas nucleares. A candidata respondia a uma pergunta numa entrevista à estação de televisão ABC, antes das primárias da Pensilvânia. "Se tivessem a ideia tola de atacar Israel, nós iríamos destruí-los."Teerão não gostou e enviou uma reclamação formal às Nações Unidas, segundo afirmou o vice-embaixador iraniano à ONU, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, citado pela agência IRNA.O Presidente iraniano, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, começou uma série de declarações polémicas sobre Israel dizendo que o Estado hebraico deveria ser "apagado do mapa", o que provocou imediata condenação internacional.Mas, no caso das declarações de Clinton, o Irão vê uma atitude "provocadora" e ainda uma "violação da carta das Nações Unidas", segundo a IRNA." (http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/, 02.05.2008, p.18).

CNN story: "RON PAUL'S BOOK HITS #1 ON AMAZON..."

E: "The Revolution, is number one on Amazon and will debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number seven"

John McCain: Blowing Up the World at 3am?

http://www.antiwar.com/bandow/?articleid=12559

Por: Doug Bandow is a Washington-based political writer and policy analyst and Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.

Fox News: Time to Listen to Ron Paul? By Elizabeth MacDonald

http://emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2008/03/26/time-to-listen-to-ron-paul/

Acaba o artigo citando:

“Empires fail because they run out of money, or more accurately, run out of the ability to spend or inflate,” Congressman Paul warns. “We need to control spending, immediately, before it is too late.”

Hope for Portugal?

Foi criada a Ala Liberal do CDS/PP cuja declaração de princípios é muito pró-libertarian.
Ver aqui a declaração dos princípios: http://www.petitiononline.com/AlaLib/ . Também tem um blogue: http://alaliberal.blogspot.com/ .

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No more Ron Paul and his silly principles

No more Ron Paul and his silly principles

"It is wonderful to see that the Republican Party has chosen John McCain as its probable nominee. We won't have to listen to Ron Paul talking about freedom and restoring the Constitution and a sound monetary system anymore.

We can now move on as a nation with open borders, higher taxes, runaway inflation, more manufacturing jobs moving out of America, higher gas prices, a national ID card where our government can keep track of us 24 hours a day, a private banking system called the Federal Reserve system that can cause boom or bust at any time, a 100-year war with Iraq, our troops in every nation.

We won't have to listen to Paul wanting to restore the republic that our forefathers set up. What a waste of time to think we can become a nation of freedoms again. We need to continue paying our income taxes so that we can pay the interest on our national debt. It's great to see that the Republican Party wants to remain status quo and not interrupt any of our systems all in the name of democracy. Congratulations to the Republicans that voted for John McCain." MIKE MONAGHAN Turlock