 Originally Posted by jaasum
What your "Universal Mind" can't comprehend is that unlike what Bill (trust me I know his show I used to watch it every day) turns every question into "A simply yes or not question" reality is much much different. Ron Paul was not avoiding his questions, the questions have very complicated answers mixed with history, policy and other factors beyond the obvious. Bill O’Reilly loves to make every a simple "yes and no"
My God you have gone from, "Hi, I'm Mr. Friendly," in the Religion forum to showing what you are really about. Why are you so rotten about everything now?
O'Reilly asks yes/no questions because they get to the heart of important issues. "Should we make decision A, or should we not?" Left wing fanatics despise yes/no questions because they greatly minimize their abilities to dodge by babbling.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
"Yes or no, is Iraq safer with Saddam Hussien." And when people are like "Ehh well in a way but not really because you have to..." but that is as far as they get because he will interject. "Yes or no! It's simple!" Which even you should be able to point out as bullshit.
Whether Iraq is and will later be safer without Saddam Hussein is an extremely important question. People who don't want to give a yes/no answer to it are people who want to dodge it. Yes, Iraq is safer even now, and Iraq will be much safer in the long run.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
Ron Paul is not a sympathizer to Al Queda, that the fact that you make that statement is an obvious fallacy. The same as when they asked him in the debate "Do you take your marching orders from Al-Qaeda then?" which holds no journalistic or fact checking merit. If you fail to see that then you fail to see where people are pointing out your obvious lack of critical thinking.
My critical thinking tells me that I have yet to see Ron Paul give the slightest trace of responsibility to Al Qaeda for their actions. He even said that U.S. presence in the Middle East "CAUSED" 9/11. That might as well be a Bin Laden quote. Does your critical thinking notice the same thing?
 Originally Posted by jaasum
No, Ron Paul does NOT take his marching orders from Al-Qaeda. In fact I firmly believe if we followed his initial proposal to simply GO AFTER Al-Qaeda and not get into nation building and Saddam Hussien we wouldn't be in this mess. What does our government do? Instead of going after our enemy they declare war on a tactic, terrorism. That would be like declaring war on submersibles and any country that harbors persons using submersible military tactics. Our enemy was Al-Qaeda, plain and simple. But then we let him run off in Pakistan and shut down the CIA group searching for him. This makes NO SENSE.
We have captured and killed tons of members of Al Qaeda, inculding many of their highest ranking members. What are you talking about? We tried really hard to catch Bin Laden, but he is apparently hiding in Pakistan, and we have national security reasons for not invading Pakistan. Al Qaeda was not our only enemy. There are other terrorist organizations with the same goals, and preventative measures are necesssary. We are also going after governments that could help those organizations get their hands on WMD's. It is not as simple as going after Al Qaeda, which we in fact have been doing. The question about marching orders was a joke meant to illustrate the extent to which Paul agrees with Al Qaeda and promotes their philosophy, however inadvertently.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
And no, Ron Paul has not "forgotten" about 9/11 that is another statement full of fallacies. He is one of the only people looking to prevent something like that from ever happening again. And this can only be acheived through removing our influence in the middle east. Tell me one good reason that benefits the American people that we have our army occupying that part of the world. And if you say defending our life that is bullshit. The reason we were attacked is because we were over there. That pisses some people off so much, people who are supposed to be our allies that they come over here and kill our innocent people. Osama Bin Laden is a fucking lunatic that deserves to be brought to justice, I agree and I am sure Ron Paul would agree. His is not a sympathizer he is intelligently assessing the situation and putting the focus back onto the American people. You do not spread democracy by force, you do not meddle in the affairs of foreign countries (giving billions of dollars of weapons to our allies to use against our enemies in the middle east is NOT HELPING US AT ALL). One of the reasons given fro the 9/11 attacks was our aid to Israel, but what do we do? Give them 30 billion dollars MORE weapons! This is completely mad!
The reason for the 9/11 attacks was that Al Qaeda decided to commit them. Everything else you mention can qualify only as influences and Al Qaeda's excuses, if anything. We are in Iraq for many reasons. I am so sick of listing them here. Look up any Iraq thread in Extended Discussion and read my long list of reasons for our presence in Iraq.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
Do you think we have the right to do what we are doing around the world? Do you think your tax dollars should be spent to meddle in the affairs of other countries? Imagine if some country did that here? Can you even open your mind enough to consider that what you get from the news (fox or not) may not be entirely true. Maybe because if Bill O'Reilly actually let someone finish a sentence you might get a glimpse of what is true, instead of some loud mouth like him shoving down ideas of how you should think. If you think a supposed "fair and balanced" journalistic network that releases "daily memos" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_news#Internal_memos) is a unbiased source of information then you, my friend are living in la la land. But wait, wikipedia is probably too "liberally slanted" for you so you will dismiss that. The world isn't a simple yes or no answer, I hope you open your "Universal Mind" to this. Because I honestly did used to think like you, nobody came up and told me "hey LIBERAL PROPAGANDA!" and I was like "OH YES OF COURSE" I just eventually saw through the bullshit on both sides one day. I would describe myself as a traditional conservative in every meaning of the world. I want the government off my back and off the worlds back. Because when we embark on this stupidity it is only hurting people like you and I, who have absolutely no choice nor anything to do with it. I could care less if Israel got 30 billion dollars of my tax dollars, so why should they? I want true freedom and liberty, I don't want a fucking "free speech zone" and I don't want the main stream media telling people who to vote for. Don't believe me, look at how much time different candidates are allowed to speak in each debate....Ron Paul or not it is bullshit. The frontrunners are automatically based on money and polls, therefore nobody else is given a chance, that isn't democracy that is propaganda. If FOX news backs a certain ideal and then un-factually makes another side look bad, while un-factually makes their side look good, that is propaganda.
If our government ever becomes genocidal and a supporter of suicide bomber terrorist organizations and the citizens cannot do a damn thing about it, I hope somebody does come here and overthrow them. Yes, we have a right and a major need to meddle in the affairs of our enemies. We would be screwed if we didn't. The world would be screwed if we didn't.
Fox News shows the views of all sides. They even have liberals giving their views every segment on the commentary shows. Their straight news just shows the news. I don't know why you keep harping on them any way. They are just one of my many news sources.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
"information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
3. the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement."
When Bill O'Reilly says "everyone who watches The Daily Show is a pot-head" That is propaganda. That is not factual and it used to make one side look good (his) and the other look bad. Just to make a point, he does this politically, not just about fake news shows.
No, it is a joke. I saw that clip. It is amazing how seriously liberals take that joke. But it is true that most of the Daily Show audience, now that the Daily Show is a PROPAGANDA show, is college kids on the left, and of course pot runs rampant with that audience.
 Originally Posted by jaasum
Does any of this make any sense to do? Do you just glaze of factual information such as why we were attacked? Or are you going to mis-read what I said and think I said "Osama Bin Laden was a great man, he was right in what he did" like Fox news so desperately wants to make Ron Paul sound like.
Fox News showed the entire clip of Ron Paul's talk of how 9/11 was COMPLETELY America's fault. You are sounding very paranoid and vicious about what you assume I think of what you are saying. I've given major details on my disagreements with your points, so you can relax now.
You seemed like a pretty good guy when I first came across you in the Religion forum. You are really a disappointment.
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