Comments on: Ron Paul’s Counter Convention

CBSNews.com Reports: As Republicans Gathered At The RNC In Minnesota, The Faithful Rallied Around Their Own Saint Paul

[navyretired2]

Ron Paul is the ONLY decent candidate for President. NO politician is 100% perfect on policies, but this man is closer than everybody else. The problem is, so man citizens have lost track of what "America" is, that they can''t recognize what''s good for it...just what''s good in front of a camera.

We fail, as a country, limiting ourselves to McCane and Obama...total failure.

America will continue to fall as an influential player on the world''s economic and political stages, no matter which of these two morons gets elected.

[jmurrieta1]

What''s really amusing is how the Republican party has censored Ron Paul like a bunch of Stalin''s Communists at a party convention would have censored Trotsky!

Then the Repugs get a lip-stick Ron Paul as their VP, only she''s nowhere near as smart, and nowhere near as experienced, as Paul.

Ron Paul is going to be a big problem for the Repugs in November. Why vote for McCain to get Palin, when you can vote for the real thing?

[thirty3na3rd]

Jeez, after a campaign of expert yellow journalism articles against Ron Paul, finally (pretty much too late) one that actually reads like a responsible report of the facts. Great article, Brian. It''s too bad CBSnews.com had to be so irresponsible in its reporting during the prior 18 months. My TV has been avoiding CBS News and this is the only visit I''ve paid to CBSnews.com in the past 6 months.

[brianbwb-2009]

"Mosaddeq was only Prime Minister." Posted by ausus

Prime Minister is the head of State in most countries that have them. If he wasn''t, the CIA would then have felt no need to depose him.

[caliengineer]

Quote: Ron Paul is wasting everyone''''s time and money. Either Obama or McCain will be elected as the next POTUS. He should throw his support, and money, behind one of the two major candidates.

Response: Way to tout the Satanist party line! Only vote for one of ours, they say, or your vote will be wasted.

Imagine it is Judgment Day. You are asked by God what motivated you in your voting decisions. What do you say?

[brianbwb-2009]

To Ausus

For Iran, the CIA%u2019s role became well-known, and caused controversy within the organization itself, and within the CIA congressional hearings of the 1970s. CIA supporters maintain that the plot against Mosaddeq was strategically necessary, and praise the efficiency of agents in carrying out the plan. Critics say the scheme was paranoid and colonial, as well as immoral."

Sound familiar? (cough Saddam cough)

"In March 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated her regret that Mosaddeq was ousted: "The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons. But the coup was clearly a setback for Iran%u2019s political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America." In the same year, the New York Times published a detailed report about the coup based on CIA documents."

[merlgrey]

the problem dr paul faced was a real man speaking the truth to real people in an intellectual and intelligent manner is an immediate disqualifier to the establishment. freedom has been replaced with fear.

[longtree-2009]

Ron Paul is wasting everyone''s time and money. Either Obama or McCain will be elected as the next POTUS. He should throw his support, and money, behind one of the two major candidates.

[ausus-2009]

Deadwind,

The government of Iran was overthrown by the Shah in 1925, at the height of America''s isolation (Keep cool with Coolidge). His son, the last Shah, was installed by the UK and USSR. If you are talking about Mohammad Mosaddeq, he was imprisoned by the Shah and died in prison. He was not assassinated. The Shah was head of state from 1941 until he was deposed and imprisoned. Mosaddeq was only Prime Minister.

If you wish to believe something else, go ahead.

[deadwind]

Like I said with no counter argument, our GOVERNMENT assassinated the democratically elected leader of Iran, installed the Shah, and proceeded to take the oil.

Saddam attacked his neighbor because our government enabled him, providing the gas. The killing started when the CIA gave him names of leftist intellectuals in his country.

Could we please drop the Hitler conversation? I already know what Isolationism does. We can''t keep propping up dictators and coming in like knights in shining armor to take out those dictators (Saddam/Bin Laden).

[olderthnadam]

God bless Ron Paul for speaking the truth and sticking to the real issues. Anytime the nominees of either of the two major parties are asked where they stand on any issue their response is to tell you where their opponent stands on the issue rather then where they do. Character assassination is the name of the game and taking a stand on the issue only gives them something they might actually have to live up to. Voting for your appointed leaders only serves legitimize them and their corporate bosses.

[ausus-2009]

Deadwind,

Saddam was a dictator, Hitler was a dictator; Saddam invaded his neighbors, Hitler invaded his neighbors; Saddam attempted to exterminate a race he did not like within his borders, Hitler attempted to exterminate a race he did not like within his borders; Saddam toyed with WMD (in case you forgot Israel bombed his nuclear facilities}, Hitler toyed with WMD; Saddam used poison gas, Hitler used poison gas. I hope even you might have noticed some parallels.

On the subject of assassinating a foreign leader, Saddam was executed by Iraqis after being tried by an Iraqi court. The case of a US government assassinating a foreign leader that comes to my mind is Ngo Dinh Diem, who was killed under the Kennedy administration.

Whether it was isolation or non-intervention, the US did nothing to stop Hitler until after Pearl Harbor and millions paid the price.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did. Ausus. Please use your brain.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did. Ausus. Please use your brain.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did. Ausus. Please use your brain.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did. Ausus. Please use your brain.

[muggsman1]

This country is starting to wake up and realize that we can%u2019t continue down the same path the republicans and democrats have been leading us. I%u2019m excited that more people are hearing Ron Paul%u2019s message of freedom and personal responsibility and I think we will finally start to see some change, real change, in our government and in the next election cycle.

[ausus-2009]

georgeeeeeee,

Your attempt at humor or whatever it was didn''t work because you created it as a one-paragraph rant.

Breaking up the paragraphs would have made it more readable.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did.

[deadwind]

I don''t understand ... why is it so difficult to understand the clear difference between Isolationism and Non-Intervention? Do we need to break it down to you Sesame-Street style? Yes, Isolationism has lead to WW2 in the past. But intervention, not isolation, leads to CIA puppets like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and the Shah in Iran. Can you imagine what you would do if Iran came to our country, assassinated our President, installed a dictator, and then took our resources?

Seriously have you lost your mind? The only Isolationists are the War-Mongering Fools and their war-fever mongrels who continue to isolate us by supporting murderous and foolish policies that lead us to be more resented in the world. Such as Sanctions on Iraq which only made his rule stronger.

Ron Paul didn''t miss 9/11. You did.