Educating Rudy Transcript

This happens to be one of my favorite videos of Dr. Paul back from the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2007. So much my favorite, that I decided to produce a transcript of the speech.

The last three sentences are the best.

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(show into Ron Paul 2008 logo)
(shows slide of The Iraq War Trifecta:

* Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

* Saddam Hussein is collaborating
with al-Qaeda.

* The 9-11 terrorists attacked us
because they hate freedom.)

The idea that we have to sacrifice so much, under the guise of what is necessary to protect us from terrorism. We need to understand why terrorists are anxious to come here.

People say, “Ron, you’re completely wrong.” And I get some on radio shows that might agree with our message completely. And they said, “We gotta go over there, and fight them there, because we don’t want them over here.”

I think there’s a great fallacy in that logic.

Mainly because, they came over here, because we were over there.

(applause)

As a matter of fact, if you read carefully what Osama Bin Laden, our former partner in crime says, he says, “We want you over there.” He couldn’t believe we would go over there and invade two muslim countries. His recruiting has gone up spectacularly, there had never had been any Al Qaeda in Iraq, now they have free reign in Iraq.

They don’t want that war to end.

I mean the worst thing that could happen to the al Qaeda is if we walked out of there. But they want us over there. They don’t have to come over here, they can pick us off over there.

Now there’s one reason why the enemy, and they are our enemies, want to kills us.

And that is, occupation.

We occupy their territory.

It would be like if the Chinese had their navy in the Gulf of Mexico, and had bases in New Hampshire and in Texas, and they think we wouldn’t pull out our gun and do some shooting?

(applause)

But too often, the American people won’t see it in the light. We are good, and wonderful, and perfect. And we are only going to deliver our goodness to them. We have two suggestions to the people that we try to do so much good. We go over and we tell them, “You do it our way, or we’re going to bomb you.” And then if they do it our way, we subsidize them.

What about the alternative of neither bombing nor subsidizing, and trying to get along with people, and talking to people, and trading with people?

The best demonstration of the advice that the Founders gave us is Vietnam.

What a tragedy. 60,000 deaths, and then we lose. We walk out, it was illegal, unconstitutional, undeclared war. We walk away from it, and what has happened? The country has become unified–was there a domino theory and they all become communists?

Communism failed, and they’re westernised! And we trade with them. We’re over there now investing there. I mean it’s so dramatic, and yet we never seem to learn. This message is powerful. The message of freedom, that of the free market. And allow people to run their own lives.

You know, I believe, that one of our problems has been that we have had Presidents that want to do too much. And the people in this country like a strong President.

And they got to thinking, well how can I run, you know, for an office like this and say, I want to be a weak President?

(laughter from audience)

But you know what, the answer to that is we should have a strong President.

Strong enough, to resist the temptation of taking power that a President shouldn’t have.

(applause and standing ovation)
(photo stills roll by of Dr. Paul speaking)
(fades out to the following message:)

To continue making the arugment
that the 9-11 terrorists attacked us
because they “hate freedom” is to
underestimate the resolve of
Americans to discover the truth
behind the lies and deceptions of
a failed Middle East policy.

(fade out to Ron Paul 2008 logo)

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