A Question for Congressman Paul

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) said during the May 15th debate in South Carolina that the terrorists attacked on Sept 11th because of our actions in the middle east since roughly 1953. I have a few questions for the Congressman.

Congressman, you stated:

Senator Robert Taft didn't even want to be in NATO. George Bush won the election in the year 2000 campaigning on a humble foreign policy -- no nation-building, no policing of the world. Republicans were elected to end the Korean War. The Republicans were elected to end the Vietnam War. There's a strong tradition of being anti-war in the Republican party. It is the constitutional position. It is the advice of the Founders to follow a non-interventionist foreign policy, stay out of entangling alliances, be friends with countries, negotiate and talk with them and trade with them.

Do you really believe that the Founding Fathers would not have immediately entered a state of war after Sept. 11th? Do you believe Taft would have?

Do you really believe that negotiating, talking, and trading with other countries is something other than entangling alliances?

Congressman, you stated

Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we've been over there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years.

Congressman, why then were the terrorists primarily of Saudi origin with none of them being Iraqis?

Congressman, you stated:

When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem.

If they got their country "back" from us evil-doers why has Iran's terrorist agent, Hezbollah, attacked us several times since? Why has Iran facilitated both Sunni and Shia violence in Iraq? Why are the IEDs that are killing our troops of Hezbollah design? Why has the Iranian parliament shouted "Death to America" every morning for nearly 30 years? The Iranians are Persian and Shia, they have no interest in the Isreal-Palestinian (Palestinian being Arab and Sunni) problem except as an interloper. So why is former Iranian President Rafsanjani under indictment by the Supreme Court of Argetina for ordering Hezbollah to conduct terror attacks against Jewish civilian targets in that country in 1992 and 1994?

Congressman Paul, in your mind what actions did we do that would ever, ever justify flying jet aircraft into skyscrapers?

Congressman Paul, why haven't these offended people followed the path of Ghandi?

The facts do not fit your conclusion Congressman.