anything to do with 9/11. number two, no indications that there was an imminent threat. north korea has welcomapons of destruction and is led by a crazy person. richard, who opposed the war internally, but, rifed, answchar that question. i was against it and like everybody else involved i thought iraq had weapons of mass destruction and zero appetite to take any risk. two other reasons america went to war in addition to the one we are talking about. one is the desire after 9/11 to send a message to the world to use richard nixon s phrase, the u.s. was not a pitiful helpless giant. the president wanted to send a message we could still be effective. secondly a lot of his advisers made the argument which he agreed with it would be something we could do in iraq and as a result transform the middle east. he saw this as potentially a
people but what military people both active and retired really like about ron paul is his general view that government generally is no good, is overfunded and needs to be cut. take a look at the pentagon. 20 to 25,000 people work every day, the average soldier airman or marine not happy with that. his view about large governments being really bad news really resonates with military. what he soft pedaled is the stuff where he cut veterans benefits or shrinks the military and leads to a bunch of staff sergeants getting rifed. he s basically soft pedaling the fact that affects them. it is very appealing to the kind of military ideal. he s also we re in the strange situation where he s the one talking about a lot of this stuff. ear in this weird situation where it s not always exactly clear how whichever republican
like about ron paul is his general view that government generally is no good, is overfunded and needs to be cut. take a look at the pentagon. 20 to 25,000 people work every day, the average soldier airman or marine not happy with that. his view about large governments being really bad news really resonates with military. what he soft pedaled is the stuff where he cut veterans benefits or shrinks the military and leads to a bunch of staff sergeants getting rifed. he s basically soft pedaling the fact that affects them. it is very appealing to the kind of military ideal. he s also we re in the strange situation where he s the one talking about a lot of this stuff. ear in this weird situation where it s not always exactly clear how whichever republican person might get the nomination would differ from obama on a question of afghanistan or
greta: moments ago arizona governor brewer made her first public comments about the federal lawsuit against arizona. i m feeling fine. i obviously many not too surprised we anticipated the federal government would file suit. eight rifed today. we will move forward. counsel is looking at the lawsuit at the lawsuit we will seek to defend the people of arizona. do you think sb-1070 violates the clause? no. why not? because i think we have state rights. a law that [ inaudible ] the law has been branded as a law does what the feds have not done. how do we argue then
greta: moments ago arizona governor brewer made her first public comments about the federal lawsuit against arizona. i m feeling fine. i obviously many not too surprised we anticipated the federal government would file suit. eight rifed today. we will move forward. counsel is looking at the lawsuit at the lawsuit we will seek to defend the people of arizona. do you think sb-1070 violates the clause? no. why not? because i think we have state rights. a law that [ inaudible ] the law has been branded as a law does what the feds have not done. how do we argue then