A much more exciting and interesting debate even to the most ardent Fox News hater, this time candidates were asked real questions and given time to answer and attack each other. This was in great contrast to the immature stupid questions shovelled up by Chris Matthews and Politico.
Mike Huckabee opened the laughter with " we are spending more than John Edwards in a beauty shop". Then the attacks started, Tancredo on McCain/Guiliani/Romney for supporting Amnesty, then Romney on McCain for campaign finance reform and for McCain/Kennedy Immigration amnesty. This was a great move by Romney to distinguish himself from the two front runners by not supporting amnesty for illegals.
Ron Paul committed political suicide by suggesting that the US invited 911 by its foreign policy, Guiliani tore into this and got the loudest applause of the night. The thing is, many Americans (many democrats/muslims) and many around the world actually agree with Ron Paul's view, lets take a more detailed look at US foreign policy for the ten years up to 911.
1991, the US pushes Hussein out of Kuwait with minimal force, they were fully supported by the UN, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia who even let them build a base which remained permanent. Osama Bin Laden wanted to fight Hussein instead of US.
1993, first WTC attack in NYC, which means first attack was already being planned before allies began bombing Iraq.
1998, US retreats from Somalia after losing 8
Not sure of exact dates, but during this time Bill Clinton bombed Serbia (in defense of muslims) and helped host multiple peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
Also during the latter half of Clinton's second term, the US and UK carried out bombing raids on military targets in Iraq, because Hussein refused to allow weapons inspectors in or uphold any side of multiple UN resolutions.
Does Ron Paul and his ilk really believe this is an aggressive foreign policy deserved of 911??. This was actually a very weak and uninterventional foreign policy by most standards. It shows not only is he wrong, but that Tancredo is correct that Al Qaeda would have planned attacks on US whether or not Israel existed and whether or not they were in Iraq or Afghanistan.
From this minimal intervention in the middle east, the only state or country that has a motive for 911 is Iraq or perhaps Palestine, yet no Palestinians or Iraqis in the plot, many US citizens who were wealthy and educated, infact the leader did not become radicalized in the Middle East, not until he reached Europe. This can defintely be attributed to the venomous anti-US/Israeli media in Europe. (Bin Laden deliberately chose Saudis to implicate the Royal family he hates) I am not suggesting that Hussein had anything to do with 911, but if it were a murder mystery, Angela Lansbury would have Hussein at the top of the list for a MOTIVE. The fact that there were plenty of Al Qaeda camps in Iraq before 911 and plenty of meetings with the Iraqi Republican Guard, suggest they may have had some idea. Don't forget Hussein appeared with a well planned speech on 911 or the day after suggesting it was the result of US foreign policy, the same view as Ron Paul.
Good Riddance to both of them.
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