Responding to Rudy

For those of you who watched the GOP debate a couple of days ago you saw the moment that is being heralded as a huge victory for New Yorker Rudy Guliani. This is an e-mail I recieved from Pat Buchanan's website. I know it's kind of long but please take the time to read it. If you don't have time to read the whole thing then just read Pat's article below.

From: Linda Muller
Date: 5/18/2007 1:37:05 AM
To: forthecause@list.forthecause.us
Subject: [FTC] PJB: But Who Was Right – Rudy or Ron?


Dear Brigade,

"It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate. Hearing Rep.
Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the
United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought
death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke
format and exploded..."

Brigade, right now, the GOP is contriving a plan to prevent Ron Paul
from participating in future Republican debates.

Read Pat's column below -- it's another grand slam!

Then, here's your assignment: RAISE - HOLY - HELL - !

The MI GOP state chairman, Saul Anuzis, is leading the charge against
Ron Paul. See email below from Buchanan Brigader, James Edwards with
info and also a reminder about what happened with MI in 2000 during the
Buchanan for President campaign.

Note, the MI GOP is getting hammered. They took off the contact page on
their website, so you need to call them!

http://www.migop.org

Telephone: 517.487.5413
Fax: 517.487.0090

And here are 2 petitions to sign in support of Ron [our thanks to
Brigader Bill Sisemore for sending them in].

http://www.petitionsource.com/signature.php?pid=2&index=0
and
http://www.petitiononline.com/RPRNC08/

Please send and post this entire email across the Net.

For the Cause, Linda

PS -- See latest video of Ron at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4Eugc0Xls

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But Who Was Right – Rudy or Ron?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.

Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment
of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that
brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani
broke format and exploded:

“That’s really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through
the attack of 9-11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking
Iraq. I don’t think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some
pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.

“I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us what
he really meant by it.”

The applause for Rudy’s rebuke was thunderous – the sound bite of the
night and best moment of Rudy’s campaign.

After the debate, on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes,” came one of those
delicious moments on live television. As Michael Steele, GOP spokesman,
was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future debates, the
running tally of votes by Fox News viewers was showing Ron Paul, with 30
percent, the winner of the debate.

Brother Hannity seemed startled and perplexed by the votes being
text-messaged in the thousands to Fox News saying Paul won, Romney was
second, Rudy third and McCain far down the track at 4 percent.

“I would ask the congressman to … tell us what he meant,” said Rudy.

A fair question and a crucial question.

When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were “over here because we are over
there,” he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He
was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came.

Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahedeen whom we, in the
Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army
from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper
rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.

What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies
we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they
discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state?
Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of
what we do?

Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S.
troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of
a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel’s persecution of the
Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahedeen were declaring
war on us.

Elsewhere, he has mentioned Sykes-Picot, the secret British-French deal
that double-crossed the Arabs who had fought for their freedom alongside
Lawrence of Arabia and were rewarded with a quarter century of
British-French imperial domination and humiliation.

Almost all agree that, horrible as 9-11 was, it was not anarchic terror.
It was political terror, done with a political motive and a political
objective.

What does Rudy Giuliani think the political motive was for 9-11?

Was it because we are good and they are evil? Is it because they hate
our freedom? Is it that simple?

Ron Paul says Osama bin Laden is delighted we invaded Iraq.

Does the man not have a point? The United States is now tied down in a
bloody guerrilla war in the Middle East and increasingly hated in Arab
and Islamic countries where we were once hugely admired as the first and
greatest of the anti-colonial nations. Does anyone think that Osama is
unhappy with what is happening to us in Iraq?

Of the 10 candidates on stage in South Carolina, Dr. Paul alone opposed
the war. He alone voted against the war. Have not the last five years
vindicated him, when two-thirds of the nation now agrees with him that
the war was a mistake, and journalists and politicians left and right
are babbling in confession, “If I had only known then what I know now …”

Rudy implied that Ron Paul was unpatriotic to suggest the violence
against us out of the Middle East may be in reaction to U.S. policy in
the Middle East. Was President Hoover unpatriotic when, the day after
Pearl Harbor, he wrote to friends, “You and I know that this continuous
putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten.”

Pearl Harbor came out of the blue, but it also came out of the troubled
history of U.S.-Japanese relations going back 40 years. Hitler’s attack
on Poland was naked aggression. But to understand it, we must understand
what was done at Versailles – after the Germans laid down their arms
based on Wilson’s 14 Points. We do not excuse – but we must understand.

Ron Paul is no TV debater. But up on that stage in Columbia, he was
speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him
back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war.

By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from
the beginning on Iraq.


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Subject: Re: [FTC] Ron Paul - Educating Rudy...
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:45:47 EDT
From: James1134@aol.com
To: lindamuller@buchanan.org

Linda:

I agree with you 110% and am in the same boat! It'll be an uphill
struggle (as it always is), but I, like you, have not been this excited
about a Presidential campaign since 2000!

Always good to hear from you, my friend.

God Bless,
James
www.thepoliticalcesspool.org

P.S. - Did you see what the Michigan GOP is up to? I'll include an
e-mail I sent out here below...

GOP LEADER WANTS RON PAUL BANNED FROM FUTURE DEBATES

We normally try to keep from sending out more than one e-mail update a
week to our subscribers, unless a serious situation warrants the
additional announcement. However, I was infuriated by a news article I
read today that stated that the Republican Party Chairman in Michigan
was going to make a concerted effort to ban Ron Paul from participating
in any future GOP Presidential Debates. His reason for such rash and
Orwellian thinking? He doesn't like the Congressman's message.

Now, we may be a lot of things in The Political Cesspool, but we're
nothing if not the ardent defenders of our God-given right to the
freedoms of speech, expression and association. It's a shame many
leaders of the Republican Party don't feel the same as we do. Ron Paul
has already been the recipient of biased attacks from the establishment
media and despite winning the debates according to the opinion of
viewers polled by MSNBC and FOX, the conservative Texan might now find
himself barred from having the opportunity to espouse his viewpoint
altogether if some in the GOP have their way.

I don't know of any other group that is yet mounting a counter-offensive
to this madness, but if there aren't any, I'd like for our radio program
to begin the defense of Ron Paul's right to participate. Read the
article below and then read what we believe YOU can do to help
Congressman Paul... Michigan GOP leader wants Paul barred from future
debates

5/16/2007, 7:07 p.m. ET

By JIM DAVENPORT
The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said
Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential
debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the
Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.

Michigan party chairman Saul Anuzis said he will circulate a petition
among Republican National Committee members to ban Paul from more
debates. At a GOP candidates' debate Tuesday night, Paul drew attacks
from all sides, most forcefully from former New York Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, when he linked the terror attacks to U.S. bombings.

"Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us
because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years,"
Paul said.

Anuzis called the comments "off the wall and out of whack."

"I think he would have felt much more comfortable on the stage with the
Democrats in what he said last night. And I think that he is a
distraction in the Republican primary and he does not represent the base
and he does not represent the party," Anuzis said during an RNC state
leadership meeting.

"Given what he said last night it was just so off the wall and out of
whack that I think it was more detrimental than helpful."

Anuzis said his petition would go to debate sponsors and broadcasters to
discourage inviting Paul.

Jesse Benton, Paul's campaign spokesman, said the candidate "is
supporting the traditional GOP foreign policy. I think it's a shame when
people try to silence the traditional conservative Republican standpoint."

After the debate Tuesday, Paul said he didn't' expect his remarks to end
his campaign.

"The last time I got a message out about my position on the war it
boosted us up by tens of thousands and I didn't change my position,"
Paul said. "I think the American people are sick and tired of this war
and want it ended."

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Folks, don't believe that this could never come to fruition. It may
seem like a long shot that Paul would be excluded from future debates,
but I've seen the Republican Party do worse. If memory serves, it was
in Michigan in 2000 that, due to Republican underhandedness, they denied
Pat Buchanan ballot access after he had met the requirements to be
included. Michigan was the only state in which Buchanan's name was not
featured as a candidate in the Presidential election.

In an effort to "ride to the sound of the guns" on behalf of Paul, we
are encouraging our listeners to call the Michigan Republican Party and
respectfully, but demandingly, insist that this sort of thought policing
has no place in a free society.

Again, the man behind the effort to remove Paul is Michigan State
Chairman Saul Anuzis. Below is the contact website as well as the
direct line to the Michigan GOP Office. Let's get on top of this folks!
Please forward this message to your mailing lists and post it onto
your blogs and websites.

CONTACT THE MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY IN SUPPORT OF
RON PAUL'S RIGHT TO DEBATE

http://www.migop.org/contact_us.asp (E-mail contact available at site)

Telephone: 517-487-5413
FAX: 517-487-0090

On to victory,

James Edwards
Host, The Political Cesspool Radio Program