Ron Paul - What if..?

What if the policies of foreign intervention, entangling alliances, policing the world, nation building, and spreading our values through force are deeply flawed?

What if it is true that Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction?

What if it is true that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were never allies?

What if it is true that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein did nothing to enhance our national security?

What if our current policy in the Middle East leads to the overthrow of our client oil states in the region?

What if the American people really knew that more than 20,000 American troops have suffered serious casualties or died in the Iraq war, and 9% of our forces already have been made incapable of returning to battle?

What if there really have been 100,000 civilian Iraqi casualties, as some claim, and what is an acceptable price for doing good?

What if Rumsfeld is replaced for the wrong reasons, and things become worse under a Defense Secretary who demands more troops and an expansion of the war?

What if those who correctly warned of the disaster awaiting us in Iraq are never asked for their opinion of what should be done now?

What if the only solution for Iraq is to divide the country into three separate regions, recognizing the principle of self-determination while rejecting the artificial boundaries created in 1918 by non-Iraqis?

What if it turns out radical Muslims dont hate us for our freedoms, but rather for our policies in the Middle East that directly affected Arabs and Muslims?

What if the invasion and occupation of Iraq actually distracted from pursuing and capturing Osama bin Laden?

What if we discover that democracy cant be spread with force of arms?

What if democracy is deeply flawed, and instead we should be talking about liberty, property rights, free markets, the rule of law, localized government, weak centralized government, and self-determination promoted through persuasion, not force?

What if Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda actually welcomed our invasion and occupation of Arab/Muslim Iraq as proof of their accusations against us, and it served as a magnificent recruiting tool for them?

What if the Pentagon, as reported by its Defense Science Board, actually recognized the dangers of our policy before the invasion, and their warnings were ignored or denied?

What if the argument that by fighting over there, we wont have to fight here, is wrong, and the opposite is true?

What if we can never be safer by giving up some of our freedoms?

What if the principle of pre-emptive war is adopted by Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and others, justified by current U.S. policy?

What if pre-emptive war and pre-emptive guilt stem from the same flawed policy of authoritarianism, though we fail to recognize it?

What if our policy of democratization of the Middle East fails, and ends up fueling a Russian-Chinese alliance that we regret-- an alliance not achieved even at the height of the Cold War?

What if presuming the guilt of a suspected terrorist without a trial leads to the total undermining of constitutional protections for American citizens when arrested?

What if we discover the army is too small to continue policies of pre-emption and nation-building? What if a military draft is the only way to mobilize enough troops?

What if the stop-loss program is actually an egregious violation of trust and a breach of contract between the government and soldiers? What if it actually is a backdoor draft, leading to unbridled cynicism and rebellion against a voluntary army and generating support for a draft of both men and women? Will lying to troops lead to rebellion and anger toward the political leadership running the war?

What if the Pentagons legal task-force opinion that the President is not bound by international or federal law regarding torture stands unchallenged, and sets a precedent which ultimately harms Americans, while totally disregarding the moral, practical, and legal arguments against such a policy?

What if the intelligence reform legislation-- which gives us bigger, more expensive bureaucracy-- doesnt bolster our security, and distracts us from the real problem of revamping our interventionist foreign policy?

What if we suddenly discover we are the aggressors, and we are losing an unwinnable guerrilla war?

What if we discover, too late, that we cant afford this war-- and that our policies have led to a dollar collapse, rampant inflation, high interest rates, and a severe economic downturn?

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[jamesmikejohnson]

How did you do the tpography?

[DefendYourFreedom]

@jamesmikejohnson

I didnt,.. someone else did. If i knew who, i'd credit them. Neither do i know how people make these typgraphies. But its still very nicely done i agree.

[hannas1234]

The music downed out the dialogue a bit. The typography was neat, though. Especially the l33t parts.

What if? Please.

Lets drown ourselves in the hypothetical. What if we didn't have to choose between the lesser of two evils in a presidential race? What if we had a congress that actually represented the people they were elected to represent? What if we had a government who wasn't trying to bankrupt us and our children to impose policy that we don't want?

What if? A novel question, indeed.

[DefendYourFreedom]

"Lets drown ourselves in the hypothetical."

Oh come on man, dont spin it like that, you make it sound like bad thing and over used.

The questions arent meant to be answered individually, these questions are summed up to show how we take things for granted, and that we should take more consideration for these matters.

Your obviously a smart guy, so why are you so down on this?

[MindCrimesInc]

Found it....GatekeeperInvasion made this.

[DefendYourFreedom]

By second thought, i dont think he made it, the rest he has uploaded doest look anything like it. I'll PM him, lol.

[SuperTankT95]

I think Ron Paul would be the good president.

[XQzix]

A very artful and visually demonstrative video of the wise words of the man who should have been President of the United States....Ron Paul.

[Braunschweider]

What if fascism is a good system and could exist without direct racism?

What if fascism is twisted and transformed through these 70 years to look as if it is the most evil way of life?

What if I tell you that our current way of life on this world kills more people EVERY YEAR than communism and fascism have killed ALL TOGETHER?

[bads06]

@DefendYourFreedom After Effects or Flash

[c0d0r12]

@hannas. What say you now? There is no pride in me asking this, only humility.

[3rdsidewalker]

Ron paul for us president!

[CousinJemima1]

Way to take an incredibly insightful monologue of rhetorical questions and kill there meaning with Metallica.

And Ron Paul will never be President. No matter how much common sense he has, and no matter how honest he is, he's just too "silly" and "off the wall" to ever get elected by a majority. I'm pretty sure he was laughed at by a majority of the sheep at the primaries where he posed these questions in 2008.

[mrssodapopstar]

I guess, in esscense, the simple question from this video is , "What if, for once, the US government minds their own damn business?" I've been asking that for years.

[RichMatarese]

Boy, the mainstream media has GOT to keep Dr. Paul off the air.

This guy gets more exposure and there go all their phony-baloney jobs.

[glendeco]

Nice!