{"id":3413,"date":"2007-04-04T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T02:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/rep-ron-paul-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T02:45:22","slug":"rep-ron-paul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/rep-ron-paul-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/paul\/\"> Dr. Ron Paul<\/a>, Texas congressman and Presidential candidate, explains his foreign policy principles and how they apply to the Bush doctrine, the &#8220;isolationist&#8221; smear, the motives of the bin Laden movement, his belief that the Middle East would be more peaceful without the American military presence, the corruption of the Congress as a result of how much power they wield, U.S. obstruction of various peace efforts in the region, the threat of war with Iran and the possible consequences, that nation&#8217;s enmity toward al Qaeda,  frightening new changes to the <em>Posse Comitatus<\/em> and the Insurrection acts, the Military Commissions Act and his opposition to the way the current administration operates their secret military tribunals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_04_03_paul.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (26:44)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ron                  Paul is a Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/paul\/congrec\/congrec2003\/cr071003.htm\">member of Congress<\/a> from Texas and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/\">candidate<\/a> for President of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Independence is Not Isolationism<\/em><\/strong>: Antiwar Republican Explains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}