Mahmoud Mamdani on the Endless War on Terror & on Ron Paul Stirring-Up the GOP Debate
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Uploaded by democracynow on Sep 14, 2011
DemocracyNow.org - In the most recent Republican presidential debate on Monday, Sept. 12, Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas drew boos from the crowd and a rebuke from other candidates on the podium when he criticized U.S. foreign policy in discussing the roots of the 9/11 attacks. Paul criticized U.S. foreign policy as a catalyst for terrorism stating, "We're under great threat because we occupy so many countries," Paul said. "...We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?" He continued, "Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have been explicit... They wrote and said, 'We attacked America because you had bases on our holy land in Saudi Arabia, you do not give Palestinians a fair treatment, and you have been bombing ... we had been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis for 10 years. Would you be annoyed? If you're not annoyed, then there's some problem.'" For more, Democracy Now! speaks with Professor Mahmoud Mamdani, author of several books including, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror." Mamdani responded to Paul's comments by saying, "He sounds like a professor. He's trying to educate his audience and the audience is not ready to be educated, it wants to be rallied to a cause that it doesn't have to think about."
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God Bless Ron Paul....reminds me of batman: "The Hero this country needs ...but does not deserve"...or something like that, wake up America, start to think for yourselves, do your research....its just one google search away! free markets, liberty, small government and non-intervention RON PAUL 2012
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@Bobbe002 i know obama is a fake
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@ufcpride93 Yeah, because Oblama has done such an excellent job of bring our troops home. (He's a democrat btw)
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RON PAUL...A GREAT MAN,,,
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@RommelA0E yea and dont forget is a gop debate your talking about a room full of warmongers
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Ron Paul 2012,
because all of the rest, Rs and Ds are militaristic, corporatist, inflationist robots.
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Nearly fifty years ago I attended a colloquium at University. Its conclusion was that no parties or pressure groups would succeed in causing the human race to become a cooperative species. The only thing we could agree on as being a real game changer was some external, natural force. Lots of changes in nature since then. Scary changes. Hurry Mother Nature. To many dying, to many suffering. And its making killers out of all of us. My reaction to Ron Paul's speech reception.
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It's so good to see Democracy now paying more attention to Ron Paul as the most honest candidate out there.
We need young people, the truly anti-war, and pro civili liberty people on "the left" to support Ron Paul. He's said it before, "Freedom brings people together."
You don't have to take the Obama compromise. Obama has endorsed the assassination of AMERICAN CITIZENS and more war.
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@2ruthfox82 maybe...perhaps since Teddy Roosevelt
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New Ron Paul supporter created by Democracy Now. He was quite surprised wasn't he? You can bet he'll be taking a closer look at the good doctor and telling all his friends. Ron Paul 2012.
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