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Ron Paul: Clinton didn't cut defense enough
The Ron Paul Survival Report | May 15, 1993 | Ron Paul

Posted on 11/09/2007 11:37:32 AM PST by LSUfan

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To: burzum
Riiight...

Try again, it’s not bias when it is backed by the truth....

He is an anti war surrender monkey...

41 posted on 11/09/2007 1:24:03 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: LSUfan

This was exactly the same position taken by many of the “class of ‘94” Republicans.

And until Paul and Barr and Gingrich called out Clinton on calling a ‘reduction in the rate of increase’ a ‘budget cut’, CNN and the media at the time were giving Clinton a boost.


42 posted on 11/09/2007 1:28:07 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: burzum
Oh quit, there was nothing to “comprehend” in your post.

Damn you Paulites are not only arrogant, but thick.

It is irrelevant where you began, it is where you have ended up...

“Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!”- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007

43 posted on 11/09/2007 1:29:57 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: ejonesie22

Well I am not going to vote for another President who ignores our economy and bloats the government. Ron Paul is the only one of the candidates who has actually recommended to reduce the size of the government below the year 2000 size. If the other candidates want to compete for my vote then they had better at least learn some more libertarian economic principles.


44 posted on 11/09/2007 1:42:02 PM PST by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: ejonesie22

Good luck with that. We’ll keep the Muslims off your back while you get it sorted...


45 posted on 11/09/2007 1:45:37 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: LSUfan
So? And your point is?

Please post all pages of the article so that we can see what you are not telling us.
46 posted on 11/09/2007 1:55:34 PM PST by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: rideharddiefast

I know. It’s hard to tell.


47 posted on 11/09/2007 2:21:23 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Iwo Jima

That is the entire article.


48 posted on 11/09/2007 2:22:46 PM PST by LSUfan
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To: freekitty
Apparently he cut the defense enough. We got 9-ll.

Are you kidding me? 9-11 did not happen due to a lack of military resources. We had 10 times the military resources we would have ever needed to stop those attacks. Instead we had such a bloated government that it was impossible for one part to talk to another. Even with a military that could have easily taken out the airliners in plenty of time, the information was never passed. If the government was smaller then coordination would have been easier before and during the attacks. The defense budget (which was more than 1/3rd of the defense budget of the entire world at the time) was more than enough to have combated the attacks.

49 posted on 11/09/2007 2:29:02 PM PST by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: burzum

I agree with you on bloated government and our departments can’t talk to each other; but the military budget was cut.

I would like to see the departments moved around the country instead of being in one place. Too much concentrated power can not be good.

And I don’t know that our military would have been ready to do this epsecially after the Clintons and 8 years.


50 posted on 11/09/2007 2:47:18 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: freekitty

Cutting the defense budget had nothing to do with it nor did it bring about 9/11 ™ (trademark belongs to the campaign of St. Rudy)


51 posted on 11/09/2007 3:36:01 PM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

I used 9-11; not 9/11. LOL


52 posted on 11/09/2007 3:57:48 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: LSUfan

I think we could easily cut our troops out of where they are in over 100 countries and close some of those bases, save a few billion here or there, soon it’s real money. :)


53 posted on 11/09/2007 3:57:49 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: freekitty
And I don’t know that our military would have been ready to do this epsecially after the Clintons and 8 years.

They weren't. But I don't think it was due to the budget cuts. I think the Clinton military doctrine is what did that. I don't think the Clinton Administration realized that the US itself could still be a target. I think Clinton was too worried about being the leader of the world government to actually consider that the US itself could be attacked.

54 posted on 11/09/2007 4:53:08 PM PST by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: burzum

I can agree with you there.


55 posted on 11/09/2007 6:31:55 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: rideharddiefast

He needs to run as the green party candidate or he becomes Ross Perot #3.


56 posted on 11/09/2007 6:50:46 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: bmwcyle

Which is why they have no place on a coservative message board.


57 posted on 11/09/2007 7:08:49 PM PST by End Times Crusader (Chris Peden for Congress 2008 - send Ron Paul packing)
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To: LSUfan

Ahhh, the much esteemed Peace Dividend, crystallized in time by the image of WTC I & II spewing smoke on the morning of September 11th, 2001.


58 posted on 11/09/2007 8:18:37 PM PST by thegreatbeast (The evil which you fear becomes a certainty by what you do.)
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To: Paperdoll
The Paul spammers are just sour grapes because Paul isn’t listed on FR polls anymore. The brats will do anything to capture attention!

We sure captured attention on 11/05, didn't we? How much money did Hunter raise? A mayonnaise jar full of pennies?

59 posted on 11/09/2007 8:42:17 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: A CA Guy
There is a big difference between cut and run and Ross Perot. Ross Perot is not an anti-American white flag waving terrorist appeaser like cut and run. No Republican would vote for Ron Paul. Cut and run will hurt the democratic candidate just as much as Ross Perot hurt George Bush. He will take the strong anti-American votes away from the anti-American white flag waving party.
60 posted on 11/09/2007 9:50:38 PM PST by rideharddiefast
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