Guest Post by Ron Paul
President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told us the US had to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani last week because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. I don’t believe them.
Why not? Because Trump and the neocons – like Pompeo – have been lying about Iran for the past three years in an effort to whip up enough support for a US attack. From the phony justification to get out of the Iran nuclear deal, to blaming Yemen on Iran, to blaming Iran for an attack on Saudi oil facilities, the US Administration has fed us a steady stream of lies for three years because they are obsessed with Iran.
And before Trump’s obsession with attacking Iran, the past four US Administrations lied ceaselessly to bring about wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Somalia, and the list goes on.
At some point, when we’ve been lied to constantly and consistently for decades about a “threat” that we must “take out” with a military attack, there comes a time where we must assume they are lying until they provide rock solid, irrefutable proof. Thus far they have provided nothing. So I don’t believe them.
President Trump has warned that his administration has already targeted 52 sites important to Iran and Iranian culture and the US will attack them if Iran retaliates for the assassination of Gen. Soleimani. Because Iran has no capacity to attack the United States, Iran’s retaliation if it comes will likely come against US troops or US government officials stationed or visiting the Middle East. I have a very easy solution for President Trump that will save the lives of American servicemembers and other US officials: just come home. There is absolutely no reason for US troops to be stationed throughout the Middle East to face increased risk of death for nothing.
In our Ron Paul Liberty Report program last week we observed that the US attack on a senior Iranian military officer on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraq government – would serve to finally unite the Iraqi factions against the United States. And so it has: on Sunday the Iraqi parliament voted to expel US troops from Iraqi soil. It may have been a non-binding resolution, but there is no mistaking the sentiment. US troops are not wanted and they are increasingly in danger. So why not listen to the Iraqi parliament?
Bring our troops home, close the US Embassy in Baghdad – a symbol of our aggression – and let the people of the Middle East solve their own problems. Maintain a strong defense to protect the United States, but end this neocon pipe-dream of ruling the world from the barrel of a gun. It does not work. It makes us poorer and more vulnerable to attack. It makes the elites of Washington rich while leaving working and middle class America with the bill. It engenders hatred and a desire for revenge among those who have fallen victim to US interventionist foreign policy. And it results in millions of innocents being killed overseas.
There is no benefit to the United States to trying to run the world. Such a foreign policy brings only bankruptcy – moral and financial. Tell Congress and the Administration that for America’s sake we demand the return of US troops from the Middle East!
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Assassi…nation.
I don’t know whether Trump was always bullshitting us about getting out of the Middle East or whether he stupidly let the neocons talk him into this major blunder. At this point, what difference does it make?
The second half of this song (~2&1/2 minutes) says it all:
Okay, Hillary, let me tell you what difference it makes: whether or not you were stupid enough to believe Donald Trump according to your own mind, consciously at least. One thing’s for sure, that wall just got twenty feet higher! Ba-da boom!
Listen to the Cunt interviewing him.
The same people telling you to fear Iraq and Iran are the same people that lied about Libya, Russia, China, Yemen, Afghanistan, Venezuela and Syria. But to the cognitive dissonant Trump supporters it’s all now true since Trump took office. They cannot remember the past, so they repeat it. They voted for Trump because he was a peacemaker. Now that he is a full blown neocon, they are standing by his flip flop chameleon changes and support him the same as they did when he was for peace. When Trump changes, they change. Supporting Trump is more important than supporting the truth. This is leader worship.
These people have ‘strong delusion’ and cant see the trees for the forest.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Your TDS is consuming you.
How will you make it through the next 5 years ?
If you’re under 60, you sure have a big mouth. The real question is: how will any of us make it for the five years after that? I know crosscuck gloating when I see it. The good news is that you are winning big! Yuge!
Destroy the entire middle east and all of America’s enemies. That would would eliminate many vibrant peoples.
It’s the JEWS…It’s ALWAYS the JEWS. Trump is being manipulated as the threat of “dirt” on him being exposed is very real. Almost every one of Trump’s “advisors” is jewish. That speaks to volume in spades.
The united States of America is now a colony of that “sh!tty little country” in the middle east-israel. MAGA (Make America Great Again) is out–MIGA (Make israel Great Again) is in.
It is astonishing to see the “turnaround” in MY country where the “tail is indeed wagging the dog”.
Even congress is in on the game, being required to sign “loyalty oaths” to a foreign country-israel, in order to receive political support.
Our country is lost…
The issue with that article is the presumption that anti-semitism isn’t fully justified by jewish behavior.
It is.
I don’t think you actually read the article if you think that. It literally makes the complete opposite point.
I have read that article and have excellent reading comprehension. I do not think it does.
No, you didn’t read the article.
There is absolutely no reason for US troops to be stationed throughout the Middle East to face increased risk of death for nothing. – Au contraire, good sir, there is an absolutely indisputable, unapproachable, unquestionable, unassailable, undeniable reason for U.S. troops to be stationed in the Middle East.
That the reason is beyond question is because it involves the counterfeit, rogue state of Israhell. American troops are there at the behest of the Zionist thugs that lust for their twisted dreams of a “Greater Israhell,” of course, at the expense of the U.S. soldiers lives and billions upon billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Why? It’s really quite simple; they own us, lock, stock and barrel. It doesn’t require an acute, detailed analysis to provide the facts that bring this to light. Even a casual observer can see that none of the American citizens needs are being met, but somehow, all of the demands of the gangsters running Israhell are met and then even exceeded by a all too malleable, subservient Congress, as well as a President that is joined at the hip and just can’t seem to do enough for his pal, Nitwityahoo.
Can this unpalatable situation be changed? Unfortunately, not in our lifetimes, it seems, as every dual-citizen Congress-critter gives any demands from their Zionist masters top priority, with American taxpayer dollars.
Because there is nearly zero protest from the clueless American constituents, they are given free rein to spend Israhell into unfathomable prosperity and security, while draining the lifeblood from the rubes in America who are on the hook for the bill.
It seems that most who vote are simply unwilling, or unable to research the candidates connections with this foreign vampire squid nation. Had they done even a minimal amount of homework, they would have discovered that we now have the most traitorous brood of vipers that has ever darkened the halls of Congress, passing laws to benefit a foreign nation, while ignoring the dire needs of Americans.
It is exhausting being sometimes the lone voice in the wilderness crying “Awaken, you’re in peril, wake up,” seemingly to no avail, as the next election cycle proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Americans have learned absolutely nothing and will continue to make the same damning mistakes ad infinitum.
It’s become obvious that the Zionist stranglehold on this nation will continue unabated, until the last drop of blood has been drained and its rotting carcass is left to the jackals and birds of prey.
Good luck in the next election, perhaps Pete Buttplug would be a fitting choice to lead a failing nation into the final abyss. Shalom.
Never Trumper Ron Paul just isn’t the same guy as he was 10 years ago, is he? When paymasters get a ring through your nose (Ron Paul “Foundation”) and they start tugging, your politics shift a little bit. So Trump waxed some Iranian cockroach. Good. Who’s next? Save the hysteria, Ron.
Ron “king of pork” Paul
They have no reason not to want to knock us off. If just for bragging rights alone. Either using clandestine or outright force
The world still respects our military capability – now. If we do as Ron Paul suggests, we become just a sitting duck
One thing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, neocons who currently attack Soleimani as mass murdering terrorist cannot deny. He was loyal to his nation thus a patriot. That’s more than any American can say about them.
It’s too bad the GOP fucked over Ron Paul in the 2012 election. Would have been interesting to see.
Really? Look at everything these assholes have thrown at Trump. Do you think Ron Paul could have held up at all against that kind of an onslaught? They told him to sit down. He did. If he had been elected president, same thing would have happened. Ron Paul is a good man. Being a good man is not enough. You’ve got to be a fighter if you want to be a leader. Ron Paul is not a fighter.
I reluctantly agree here. I love Ron Paul but he’s not a CEO. Then again, neither is Trumpeo. We need someone who will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make a fucking omelette. Trumpeo is what Al Capone said in Untouchables: All talk and a badge.
It’s not difficult to order a CoD gamer to use a model airplane to blow shit up. It’s a lot more difficult to have a wife and kids and know that, when you suspend habeas corpus and implement a political Trail of Tears, their lives are in grave danger.
Trumpeo is not that guy; he is Damocles without the sword. We don’t need a dealmaker, we need a Sam Adams or a Francis Marion.
You know they are dead, right?
While I would love to see the US out of the Middle East for our own good, it is simply not going to happen.
The reason it is not going to happen is the agenda of the Globalists and their instance on a New World Order.
Trump campaigned on the platform of bringing troops home and less involvement in overseas ventures, but after taking office found he really was not the one in charge of deciding these things. The agenda in the Middle East has not changed, and it is centered around war and regime change in 7 countries. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.
Sadly, the foreign policy of the United States is no longer dictated by the will of the American people, but by special interests who have purchased our government and dictate to them what they will and will not do.
Special interests? Call them what they are: Jews.
all right then. I guess Elizabeth Warren is your vote
Haven’t figured out who we’re going to vote for yet, but I can promise it won’t be a Republican or a Democrat.
You beento the Congo??!!!
A true leader would eliminate all of America’s enemies. That would unfortunately include all democrats.
what’s unfortunate about eliminating democrats?rinos also ?
There goes Ron Paul with his anti-Semitism again.