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  • When talking about protecting the American allies in a political conversation about the Middle East, they only mean Israel and the oil-rich Gulf countries, it's an economical / religious based alliance... Would they be so protective concerning to other countries in the region like Turkey, Armenia, etc? I don't think so, even if Turkey belongs to NATO.

  • @nmgscp Good comment - I do believe in Ron Paul's ideal of Just War Theory, if the West goes to war be it the EU or US we should have our congress & senate vote & then go to war & win it - but only as the last resort no because some irrational M/East state or cult wants us to be it Lekud or Saudi lobby. Saudi should of been the 1st to be attacked after 9/11 as Saudi-Binladens crime family control Pakistani ISI & Taliban as well as having inside intel before 9/11 on USAF exercises on 9/11

  • i wish some one bitchslap this condii, she thinks she is too smart and will fool us with her words, get a life bitch

  • RON PAUL: weapon of mass instruction.

  • Shame on you Rice

  • Ron Paul's face 4:30 ): (

  • 4 years later... where is their bomb?

  • write a list of all the countries that have used nuclear weapons to kill civilians

  • @tinatulips Hmm, the US? am I right?

  • @tinatulips ONLY 1 !!!! Guess who !!!

  • Ron Paul: The most solidly consistent, the most solidly Constitutional, the most solidly Christian. No wonder the GOP can't stand him.

  • @dyamarick well the GOP is christian, so disremark that idea and your right on track.

  • Israel has over 100 nuclear bombs! PLEASE SHUT UP THIS CRAZY BITCH!

    

  • "Why did we give a monopoly of creating money out of thin air to a private corporation? The result is exactly the same as if someone was picking your pocket every year, because that is exactly what they (the Federal Reserve Bank) are doing."

    Franklin Sunders, Author, Tax Honesty.

  • shes a ugly troll

  • @LEONIDASTREEHUNDRED I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY 1 WHO THOUGHT THAT THANXXX :)

  • Iran is a threat to our national security because they can attack Israel????????

    WTF IS THIS BITCH TALKING ABOUT THAT MAKES NO SENSE????

  • what she said was true! Whether one agrees depends on wanting USA to be and remain an imperial power or not. Ron Paul is clear against that idea... But as an American or even just an anglophile, latin descending "western" person... everyone should ask themselves if he wants his cultural socialization to remain as it is today. Power, economic, military etc. is a shifting thing. To me it seems, the more technology proceeds, the faster those shifts might occur.

  • LOL she's a joke and its so transparent. She states they want to talk but the USA won't talk unless demands are met. This ensures Iran walks away. So if Iran is either gonna talk while enriching, or be brushed off and keep enriching, what does Conni gain from imposing such demands? It gives her a way to not talk and to push a Government Agenda. Doesn't make sense otherwise. She had everything to gain and nothing to lose, she chose to not talk. Own up to your own crap and act like an Adult...

  • this is why some blacks don't send their daughters to school.they learn to lie

  • She reminds me of our former Governor Christi Whitman. She said and did nothing. Just a lot of fancy speaking. Sick!

  • Isn't it strange how we'll not drill for oil in this country and set-up nuclear powers plants (as obama promised during his campaign) to take care of our needs, yet politicians have every excuse in the world to involve us with dangerous middle-eastern saps? This serves as another reason why we need to take a sludge hammer to this antiquated political system that permits these danger fools to lead us into h*ll and replace them with home computers to carryout the will of the people!

    Am I right?!

  • I remember thinking that these people learned nothing from Vietnam and how easy it is to get into a war but getting out is a different story. And when they set a specific date that they would attack they attacked a day or so earlier because "we thought saddam was at that particular place at that time." So right there we knew this was going to be a total waste of money and lives! FOOLS! They should have sent a covert sniper team in to kill saddam and his sons instead & let Iraq sort itself out!

  • Israel has 200 nucleair weapons and is not part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. read "The Sampson Option". The US does not have to protect this country. If Iran has nuks, so what? It won't use it against other countries. And if Iran is sponsoring terrorism, the US is doning that as well for decades. Check out "The School of America's" in Fort Benning, or "Economic Hitman". What Iran is doing is peanuts in comparison what the US is doing in the world. Check: Petro Dollar, Iran CIA 1953!

  • God is just. as we know for every action there is an equal reaction. this woman is barely human. she must have her neck slit.

  • I love Ron Paul. Ron Paul, 2012-2020!

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    Rand Paul, 2020-2028!

  • Condoleezza Rice sounds like a Mexican dish. Maybe we should put her on a plate and send her to Mexico so the Mexicans can eat her.

  • I came down with an episode of gondolezza when I was about 21. Thank god the antibiotics back in those days didn't have to come up against the resistant forms we find ourselves faced with today.

  • My god, Condolezza Rice is a total piece of shit. May she burn in hell for the lies she and the rest of the Bush Administration told and the blood that they needlessly shed. God is watching. Their day will come, hopefully soon.

  • @mrcolin805 Just one of many career pols willing to grovel before the Jewish Lobby

  • @mrcolin805 She really is a piece of shit - she nearly got arrested for the jewellery store incident when she berated (almost physically) the owner for not being quick enough in serving her saying "I am here to buy the ring because I am the class that has the means to buy rings you are the class that does not so it serves" - I thought that feudal attitude was abolished in 1776!

    She also as a unelected adviser dismissed the Russian President from seeing US President!

    She is useless

  • australia here.. don,t fuck this up for the world... people of america pls pls elect ron paul 2012..

  • Don't fuck this up, America. Vote Ron Paul.

  • @schlegelt oh they are fucking it up pretty badly

  • @schlegelt Your voices is irrelevant. Gringrinch to presidents (at least this is what you will get WHO EVER ELSE you really vote).

  • Ron Paul 2012!

  • Ron Paul for President 2012

    Please join me in supporting the Constitution of the United States. Exercise your Vote! Find out who you are really supporting by researching what they have voted for while in office. Don’t be blind citizens following blind leaders. Be informed voters who make their voting decisions on facts and not opinions. Remember you have to register in your state of residence in order to vote in the preliminary election.

  • USA can never live in peace with the world unless they cut ties with Israel and let Israelis to sort out their problems with the Islamic world.

  • @toneysmith48 I'm a Jew and I sadly have to agree with you, at least in part. We definitely should insist they "sort out their problems" on their own. The fact is we give them billions while all their citizens enjoy health care that Americans can't afford. Something wrong with that. We don't necessarily have to cut all ties but the gravy train should end. In the end, my people will benefit from their independence from the US tit!

  • USA will make a big mistake if they ever think of attacking Iran in order to save Israel which is creating enemies for United State of America on this earth.

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  • 9/11 was an inside job. Plane and Simple.

  • ron paul, da most unrotten apple in a basket full of rotten apples dat is da american congress. r.p 2012

  • why did my speech teacher tell me not to say ummm or uhhh over and over again but all these politicians do it.

  • For more on Dr. Rice see my video

    Condi Lied Under Oath to the 9/11 Widows.

    The widows called her "KindaLiesaLot Rice"

  • we need ron paul,elected, and im a canadian. wake up people

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  • one of these days, Condi, one of these days!! *shakes fists*

  • rice you lying black ass bitch

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  • Neo-conservatism is your defender and it saddens me that you people don't comprehend that.

  • Pakistani/Americans for Ron Paul 2012

  • @dell1940 All the more reason to be doubtful of his foreign policy.

  • She was a lying bitch

  • @redhot916spd She was made to lie by the administration.

  • @EarlRegent I don't think anyone could make that woman do anything she didn't want to do. Damn headstrong individual

  • I highly doubt Iran will honestly use a nuke. They would cease to be a country after the first rocket was fired. They might take out a big city, but there entire country would be annihilated. Ron Paul's message is worth a try. We've been doing it the other way, as Rice put it "the last 60 years" how far has that got us? I am for sure voting Ron Paul now. Humans don't want to fight unless there unhappy, or being picked on. What the U.S. has going now, is essentially a gang war. Back and forth.

  • @BLawr3nce Wow! No wonder I turned from a liberal to a neo-conservative . You are very naive and have no understanding of the Jihadi mind. What do you think suicide bombers are? People like the leaders of Iran are very capable of committing national suicide as long as they get one good one in. Your military isolationist mentality is more dangerous than the current policy. The problem is you people never experienced a world with a neutral USA, that's why you sit here and say what you say.

  • @EarlRegent

    Wow! Liberal to NeoCon? So one extreme to another. That must be tough to realize what you thought was right all along, was the exact opposite. Talk about naive. knowing this, I can no longer accept any advice from you about anything, especially Jihad. You may radically switch your views on me. I'm a libertarian. We're some of the most patriotic out there. NeoCons=Offenders, not Defenders, that's non-interventionism. Just join Ron Paul Earl, Romney and Newt can't win...

  • @BLawr3nce So people are not allowed to cross the political isle and once they do, then they have nothing to offer in your opinion? That's laughable. So should we stick to the parties our parents belong to or ones that the institutions encourage us to follow for fear or not being respected even though our beliefs have evolved? Do you realize how ridiculous what you just stated is Sir? I was a Liberal between from 19-23 and became a moderate conservative until the age of 28.

  • @EarlRegent

    "So should we stick to the parties our parents belong to"

    You completely missed my point...

    Nothing wrong with crossing the political isle, just to go from one extreme to another, implies you were COMPLETELY wrong before. Where as I have always done the proper amount of research, since I was 16. So although my views have changed some, not as extreme as yours. My core is the same. You completely changed your core. I have always been an Independent/Centrist.

  • @BLawr3nce From 28 t- 32(my current age) ; I now have neo-conservative tendencies. Look, Ron Paul has got it right 100% with domestic policy but his military isolationist views are dangerous. You have not travelled to many countries around world and I am guessing you don't have a diverse ethnic background or religious one. I have both and understand the neo-conservative fears. Try reading useful idiots as a starter. I don't mean that as an insult cause most conservatives have already, I know.

  • @EarlRegent

    I'm the wrong person to talk diversity with. I've traveled everywhere as a volunteer. I am a German, Spanish, American, Sephardi Crypto Jew, raised as a Catholic. It's funny were the exact same age... Truth be told, Neo-Cons live in a bubble. Most I have met have never even left there hometowns.

  • @BLawr3nce Liberal to neo-con is not extreme; far left to far right is extreme.British neo-cons are very well travelled and that's why they are neo-cons. You can not fault me for being liberal during young adulthood and becoming proper conservative now can you? You talk of having basic cores, so why should we respect neo-cons that become liberals then? If having considerable shifts in political opinion over our lifetimes is a deplorable negative then we should not waste our times debating policy

  • @BLawr3nce Speaking of Germans(what a shift that was); I love Germans today and they would have placed me in a concentration camp 70 years ago lol!

  • You guys! Did you notice Rice's eyes??! Holy cow, they are damn scary like she has the draconian in her! SHE IS LYING!!!

    Someone PLEASE protect Ron Paul so he doesn't turn like Obama, Bush, Clinton or anyone working in the White House! O.M.G... (((Ron Paul 2012 for HOPE)))

  • I can't wait till we get this guy elected

  • @Danlovesmakinvids I'm being serious btw

  • @Danlovesmakinvids /agree....... his moral compass points toward his heart instead of his wallet and his logic and reasoning are second to none. if you are a great philosopher or just aworking class guy with a brain and independant thought, you would vote for him. unfortunately too many people rely on the media now and i fear that will go massively against him.. hopefully he can do enough for people to take note and wake up.

  • @Danlovesmakinvids As good as it sounds...it will never happen...even if he's leading in the poles in every state. He's too much of a idealist. They will never let him take office...I bet ya!

  • @MzSiddiqui Then there will be riots in the streets...thats why they put up the NDAA law.

  • @Danlovesmakinvids we all know elections are rigged. Paul wouldn't 'win' even if he got 100% of the vote.

  • @Danlovesmakinvids chances are all times high but still slim... I'd say 10-15%. Wich makes me sad :( And also there is a high chance if he will be elected for a quick assasination - something like with Kenedy...

  • @Danlovesmakinvids You may wait for ever. FED will never allow fair elections in US. Russian "United Russia"'s cheaters seem like babies compared to American corporations.

  • ron paul will fight for what he believes in this is proof.

  • Lets make a law that states. When a politician say america thinks. They have to replace America with , We greedy little politician bastards. Because this government has not spoken for me EVER. If they did we would be farming deserts and feeding the planets people. We have that technology. Why dont we use it ?... And no one talks to this government because it is like trying to talk to the bully on the playground.

  • I wonder if all the people getting interviewed by these committees think to themselves

    Condaleeza Rice - "Please not Ron Paul, please not Ron Paul!"

    Chairman - "The gentlemen from Texas, Mr. Paul is recognized."

    Rice - "SHIT!"

  • It's not complicated, you have poked the dog almost to death with a sharp stick and WHEN it bites you your government is going to scream bad dog

  • are americans, your gov has probably started awarding contracts for the rebuilding of city to be named later. watching from canada its like the us gov is addicted to killing Arabs and when NY or LA go boom the US gov are responsible

  • proof of the propaganda is that the only people in the world that can't see the suitcase nuke going. off in newyork or LA

  • was iran the one that nuked 2 cites in japan and has invaded Vietnam, korea, Grenada, iraq, panama. the states says iran suports terrorist. the US government considers anyone that does not whant to live under the same dictatorship that has been stepping on the american people for 40 years to be a a terrorist

  • The US has without a doubt tarnished its reputation with bad fiscal, foreign diplomacy, and domestic policy...BUT she does keep up with the ongoing changing world that is constantly in a race to be number one in terms of power, money and might....its not a pretty world but someone will rule. why let a nation who is a dictatorship hold that responsibility. ...the US does ave its problems, but it is still the best place to live in this god for saken world

  • "American Interests" in the Gulf means protecting and controlling corporate oil profits at all costs, including 4500 dead American boys and men, 100,000 dead Iraqis, and $4 trillion in debt, not to mention the hatred of the world.

  • @johnnyViDeO

    those stats you spewed out your mouth are incorrect buddy. who forged your transcript?

  • So sad, Condi Rice spent her political career working as a tool for the Zionists!

  • I think she gave a great answer. Pretending she didn't make sense doesn't change the fact that she does. BTW, Condi is much more impressive that Paul is.

  • @snorp73 You cannot spell, your point is invalid.

  • @snorp73

    We can't talk to Iran because they might be making nukes while we have nukes, have used them, and could use them again. That's like a kid getting some ice cream, seeing another kid start to get a cone full, and then slapping it out of their hands. Secondly, we are scared of Iran and justify it by saying other countries are too? That's also childish.

    It sounds like her idea of foreign policy is a middle school playground. Impressive? Hardly.

  • @Applesmaush

    maybe. but the kid that gets a full cone was threatening to throw it at another child when he gets it...theres a big difference. the world has never ever been a peaceful place and never will. the saying it takes a few broken egg shells to make an omelet is a sad but true fact...history repeats its self and iran has full intentions of wiping out israel or us bases....you have absolutely no idea what goes on in daily intelligence briefings..so dont act like you do

  • @marinert100

    A) They do not have the technology to attack us, war with them is not our priority.

    B) Israel has an outstanding military and are nuclear capable themselves, they can handle it.

    C) Breaking eggshells to make an omelet doesn't mean cracking eggs you don't have to crack, just the necessary ones.

    D) I made no claims about any Iranian intelligence. I made observations about our relationship with countries developing nuclear technology.

  • SOUNDS LIKE A MEXICAN DISH

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  • Incidentally, Rice, Bush, Rumsfeld and all the others should be facing the death penalty for their crimes. They are the lowest form of life on the planet. Even lower than single celled organisms. At least they live only to produce more life, these scum bags live to destroy lives

  • quite rich that Rice would use any undermining by Iran by sponsoring terrorists as a cause for concern. The US uses the CIA and other revolutionary/terrorists groups to undermine foreign governments constantly. The US is completely out of control and is the biggest threat to security and human life on the planet.

  • India loves Ron Paul

    Go ronnie...

  • @gokulsocrates India needs to sort its own shit out.Hows the poverty going over there? Thats what i thought.

  • @gokulsocrates belgium too , actualy everybody that have some sensibility love's him , it's martin luther king of the mahatma or any true soul

  • i would sock this bitch in her mouth if i ever met her....jail is worth it. break those lie spewing gap teeth

  • It is no wonder Iran did not want to talk with us when we demanded they do things before we could communicate. It is just like the XYZ affair, except now the US in France and Iran is America.

  • I knew it wouldn't take long for all the haters to come out of the wood-work with lies and missinformation directed at Dr. Paul. Don't forget he's not mainstream and he does cater to any special interest groups. That's why he'll get my vote. I don't always agree with him but I think he's the best fit for president. I usually vote democrat.

  • i switched

  • Condi, G.W. and Cheney (and many more individuals) were the terrorists and have successfully built an entirely false foreign policy based on their treasonous crimes, draining America of it's wealth, liberties, lives and security. Open an investigation into WTC7 and follow the money.

  • Since 2007 they're talking about how Iran is such a HUGE threat and stuff like that but people just won't buy it anymore. We all know this war is about oil

  • condi is intelligent and articulate sp0eaker and i have read her book. that said she just puppet fot rest of neo cons. dr paul has much better understanding of foreign policy than her. deep down i know ron paul knows 9 11 official story is bogus. he can't say publicly what he really believes and condi doesn't believe everything she is instructed to say. they both know the real reasons for being at war in mid east, but neither will say it publicy. That would be discussion that would last days.

  • the only WMD's in the ME are property of Israel, paid by yours truly, American idiot tax payers!

  • @kopellhinex did you just lose common sense or are you just that idiotic?

  • How to get Ron Paul Nominated for President: /watch?v=btzhrobPTPU

  • the question is not "why wont we talk with Iran, but why won't Iran talk to us?", kids games

  • For more about Dr. Rice see the video:

    Condi Lied Under Oath to the 9/11 Widows

  • Rice is an incompetent clueless party hack she should be tried as a War Criminal.

  • What's so bad about talking to them while they "may" be working on nuclear technology? At least you have a dialogue.

    But unfortunately there are higher interests being served here and it's not national security or the American people.

    We are in a sad state of affairs here in America.

  • @soulsammytube Worse yet, how can we be trusted after we talked Qaddafi into giving up his nukes, then we go in and kill him?

  • 2011 all proved wrong!!!!!

    so is any of the informers, cia agents or her office being procecuted for lying, paid fines for misleading or kicked out... no there they are...

    in my country the dictator died.. we didnt kick him off or won them.. and nowadays they still trying to run it w another form of goverment.. americans u need to do something.. jail anyone in your own goverment, police dept, senate etc... who is proven to have lied to you.. or they will come back in other forms!!!

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  • She sounds like me when I decide something at work my client doesn't like.

    "Oh but him and him and her say it works! Seriously it's true!" -- without a shroud of evidence.

  • Wasn't that a yes or no question he asked?

  • @MattTrevett

    Are you forgetting its Politics?

  • Politicians always say, "Let me say first..." That's why you're here, to explain your way out of a hanging.

  • For more about Dr. Rice, see my video:

    Condi Lied Under Oath to the 9/11 Widows

  • @punxsutawneybarney From the way you type Condi i aint going to watch because it must be shit.

  • @QCBEC You'd really like the way the 9/11 widows type Condi:

    KindaLiesaLot Rice.

  • @QCBEC Why do people hate her. She is really an incredibly intelligent woman. She is smarter than Hillary Clinton. Watch a no tel- prompter interview with obama, clinton, bush and a number of other people and check one out of Dr. Rice. No competition.

  • @EarlRegent Why people assume because you are smart you are a good being?

  • @EarlRegent seh's unhonorable. good speakers don't make their opinions smarter or misleading lies more truthier.... by the way: she's still no competition against ron paul.

  • @KoushAcalledKukA 1) I was not comparing her to Ron Paul. 2. I am not talking about her ability to just be a good speaker, but the substance of her words especially. The lies that you claim have been told are the responsibility of the entire Bush administration, not just her(in many ways she was taking the blows for them.3. Ron Paul's idea of government is a little out there and not practical(it only functions in his head and that of his supporters who think they have become enlightened).

  • @KoushAcalledKukA Plus, Ron Pall has 3 sentences. 1. Government out of everything. 2. Government out of everything 3. Government out of everything. That's all he has! He repeats the same thing over and over again. There is no other intellectual project that exists in his mediocre brain and yes Dr. Rice is certainly more intelligent than Ron Paul. Most certainly!

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    IF YOU DO NOT SWITCH IN TIME YOU CANNOT VOTE IN PRIMARY.

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  • @415Dub hey we should put these not only on politic videos all videos

  • @415Dub yea voting dont work

  • @atomrocketcar i think people are just stupid and will vote for whoever they see on tv.

  • @415Dub i agaree, in that case i wish al gore buys more air time, or ron paul buys more air time

    i would vote ron paul if it would make a difference, sadly we're gonna get 4 more years or something worse

    i dont wanna live on this planet anymore

  • america should not be trying to be the world,and police the world,since they are the worst exemple to be taken,and have no right to tell other countries what to do

  • @415Dub Spread the word Brothers and Sisters

  • She sounds a lot like another lair

    "Our judgment that we'd been attacked that day was wrong. It didn't happen"

    -Robert McNamara admitting Gulf of Tonkin attack didn't happen.

    9/11 inside job.!

  • The BIGGEST sponsor of terrorism is the C.I.A. If you don't believe that then you are a jackass.

  • It is almost like the 'to big to fail' propaghandi that was used to pass the bailouts. Except this time it is, Israel is helpless, we must step in to save them. How about you let them use their (non existant) nuclear weapons on their own? Under Ron Paul, America would not spend all the taxpayers dollars to be the world police. Wouldn't that be nice?

  • Your rhetoric is strong young jedi (Condi), but it is not unpenetrational. In fact, it didn't take long for you to say the real reason we would go to war with Iran (to protect Israel). Who are we to say that Iran can't make a nuke, when they are surrounded by countries that have them. Well, besides Israel, because we all know that they aren't stock piling nukes.

  • Iran needs a bomb.

  • Condi is scum

  • I would hate to be Ron Paul nobody seems to want to tell him the truth =(

  • I love Ron Paul - as he's right in the facts. But, damn, that woman is good in her rhetoric!

  • @carlosandregoes I was thinking the same thing. Ron Paul is right, but Rice is a rhetorical master.

  • rice is a fucking moron

  • The audacity of her to talk about Iran supporting terrorism when its a well known fact that the United States is the biggest supporter of international terrorism around the world and it has been since the end of the second world war.The lies and hypocricy that comes out from the mouths western politicians is shamless and then the media regurgitates it.Our world is fucked..

  • If and when "we" attack Iran it will start the next world war. China loves overwhelming state, will they support Iran? Wealth isn't what the state wants/needs to needs to continue. Who are India's allies? We dislike their tech support. Africa (the people) have been f*ck so much they hate everyone. Russia is nothing NEmore. Slavic nations are dirt poor. Latin America is US backed tyranny V the people. I'm playing it safe, learning Spanish/Latin Am. & Chinese studies. NWO means not what we think

  • Robert J. Oppenheimer destroyed the concept of war when he created the nuclear bomb. Quoted, Oppenheimer, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.".