{"id":3559,"date":"2007-05-16T06:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/ron-pauls-radical-mix-truth-politics\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T06:11:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T13:11:19","slug":"ron-pauls-radical-mix-truth-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/ron-pauls-radical-mix-truth-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul&#8217;s Radical Mix: Truth &amp; Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/\">Ron Paul<\/a><\/strong> for another great performance in the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina last night.<\/p>\n<p>For almost six years, politicians have acted as if it is federal crime to speak bluntly about 9\/11.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 On the day of the attacks, George Bush proclaimed that the hijackers attacked because they hate America for its freedom.\u00c2\u00a0 This has been treated as a revealed truth ever since.\u00c2\u00a0 (When I saw Bush on TV that day, I was perplexed how the US government could know the motive before it knew the identity of the hijackers).<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul has never kowtowed to this dogma, and last night he deftly debunked the 9\/11 catechism: &#8220;They attack us because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been over there; we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0As <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/ron-paul-vs-rudy-the-thug-giuliani\/\">Justin noted<\/a><\/strong>, Giuliani sought to huff-and-puff Paul&#8217;s truth off the stage.\u00c2\u00a0 But\u00c2\u00a0the Republican establishment&#8217;s hot air\u00c2\u00a0isn&#8217;t going\u00c2\u00a0to succeed this time.<\/p>\n<p>I have a long quote from the debate transcript over at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/ron-pauls-radical-mix-truth-politics\/\">my blog,<\/a><\/strong> where comments on Paul, Guiliani, et al. are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to Ron Paul for another great performance in the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina last night. For almost six years, politicians have acted as if it is federal crime to speak bluntly about 9\/11.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 On the day of the attacks, George Bush proclaimed that the hijackers attacked because they hate America for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-3559","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\/3559","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}