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There is no doubt that Ron Paul has become the enchanter of the disenchanted, but the best way to-understand him is to take a quick look at his voting record.- He has never voted to raise taxes.- He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.- He has never voted to raise congressional pay.- He has never taken a government-paid junket.- He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.- He voted against the Patriot Act.- He voted against regulating the Internet.- He voted against the Iraq war.--In fact, Congressman Paul's consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, "There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few." Operating from a unique strain of libertarian republicanism, Ron Paul's beliefs are refreshingly logical, even if you disagree with his principles. He is a Republican in the truest sense of the word, not at all what that word has grown to represent. At a recent Republican debate, the candidates were asked if they would go to war with Iran. All of them bumbled on about consulting lawyers, the cabinet, and their delegates. Ron Paul, outraged somewhat, stated quite simply, "This idea of consulting attorneys just baffles me. Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it? You're not allowed to go to war without a declaration of war!" This is his call to arms for a nation that needs to change, but doesn't know how. Barry Goldwater defined a conservative in the 1960's, and with this manifesto, Ron Paul redefines it for the modern day.
A book for everyone 
This book will need no greater knowledge, about the subjects discussed, from the reader. Gives a great explantion to the reasons for the current mess in US politics, and uses history to explain why and what to do to stay out of the current trouble the US is in.
A Must Read!!!
What a great book. The other members of Congress should be ashamed of themselves. This is a must-read for everyone. Not too long, easy to read. Give us our country back!
Wake Up People!
What a great book. Every year that goes by we are loosing more and more of our freedoms and nobody questions things anymore. But Ron Paul does.
Very well written and full of good information.
Best I've Ever Read
I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said...this is a book for the ages, period.
Facile foreign policy 
I disagree with most of the foreign policy assertions in this book. Let me just start out by saying that the U.S. followed a "non-interventionist" policy in Asia in the 1930s, and Japan ran wild. America's foreign policy toward Europe was also "non-interventionist". Where did that get us ? U-boats off the coast of New Jersey in 1941. The notion that the world will not be hostile to the U.S., if the U.S. follows non-intervention is facile. Vacuums are filled, and power vacuums are filled by up-and-coming powers who are more than glad to fill them.
The Wahhabist terrorists who are the source of modern terrorism lived in the 1700s, long before America supported Israel. Ron Paul makes it seem like Islamic terrorism only began in 1948, when the U.S. supported Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Anti-western hatred in the Muslim world is at least 200 years old. Qtub, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent group to all modern Sunni terror organizations) began preaching against not U.S. foreign policy, but against "moral laxity" (women not wearing the headcovering, etc. after he visited the United States). Indeed, if you read the book "The Looming Tower", the only goal of these terror groups is to destroy things that are not Sunni fundamentalist, and to enforce headcoverings for women. It has nothing to do with Israel. In fact, read Bin Ladin's writings. Israel does not come up, or only briefly. But "retaking" "Andalusia" (southern Spain) plays a big role in Al Quida ideology, and that has nothing to do with the U.S.
If you read about Islamic (Sunni) terror groups in the 1990s, one thing is clear: they were against the West, not just Israel or the U.S. I read a book about a man who attended a terror training camp in 1995 in Afghanistan. He said, his terrorist friends rejoiced when bombs went off in Paris that year (I was in Paris at that time, so I remember it well). He then said, a cry went up that "Islam would soon retake France". Does that have anything to do with "anger over U.S. foreign poicy" ? Or is is blank hatred toward the West ? The reason that Sunni terror groups preach hate is that they want to kill anyone who is not an extremist Sunni like themselves. Of course, they use the excuse of "we want the U.S. out of the Mideast, but let's not delude ourselves that it would be a love-fest between them and us if the U.S. abandoned the airfields it has in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
I also read an article in the German press about two Al Quida terrorists who planned to attack churches in southwestern Germany, and Christmas fairs. These young men were going to bomb churches in Germany. Why ? Because they hate Christianity and anything that is not Sunni extremist Islam. Period. Let's not delude ourselves.
Regarding Saddam Hussein, if he was not a threat, as Ron Paul claims, then why did the Europeans constantly tell Clinton in the 1990s that Saddam would have to be removed ? Didn't Saddam fire SCUDs not only at Israel, but into Saudi Arabia ? If he was not a threat, why did the United Nations issue 17 resolutions calling for him to prove he had no WMD programs ? Do you think that the UN would go to all that trouble, if Saddam were no threat ? And the idea that a country that can't shoot down F18s and F15s is no threat to me shows a shocking lack of military and strategic knowledge. I think Iran would also have a hard time shooting down U.S. fighter jets, but does that mean that Iran is no threat ? Ron Paul obviously does not understand "asymetric warfare". And not to mention Saddam handing off a briefcase containing "god knows what", developed in some weapons lab. If Saddam had no WMDs, why didn't he just invite Hans Blix in and get done with it ?
Ditto Iran. Iran is attempting to become the dominant regional power in the gulf, and the U.S. is just in the way of that.
As I mentioned, a "non-interventionist" U.S. would be welcomed by everyone from Hugo Chavez to China, to Al Quida and Hezbollah, to Iran and North Korea and Russia, who are all too willing and glad to fill in the power vacuum left by abandoned American military bases.
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