Former Congressman Ron Paul
has sharply criticized the Obama administration for “escalating” the
war in Syria by sending weapons to foreign-backed militants (al-Qaeda)
in the country. “Today we heard from President
Obama that the war in Syria will be escalated. He now has agreed to send
weaponry in to assist the rebels. It’s escalation, that’s a proper
word, because we’ve already been involved for quite a few months. We’ve
been supporting the rebels for probably the past two years, supposedly
for humanitarian reasons,” he said in a statement posted on YouTube on
Friday. “But now there is going to be a
much more aggressive approach and we’re going to send weapons. There is a
few problems with this, first off it’s war. Second thing is presidents
are not supposed to start war without permission from the people through
a congressional declaration of war,” Paul argued. He also dismissed claims made by
the White House that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons
against the militants, saying the accusations are ill-founded and
resemble the U.S. claims in the run-up to the Iraq war. “The language is the same. They use
the same arguments. Weapons of Mass Destruction, poison gases, hundred
people died, [and] the government has done this,” he said. “To me it’s
all an excuse.” President Barack Obama is preparing to impose a no-fly zone inside Syria along with sending weapons to the militants. The no-fly zone option came one day
after White House National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes accused the
Syrian government of using chemical weapons against the foreign-backed
militants. Damascus denied the allegations. On Friday, Rhodes said it would be
dramatically more difficult and costly to set up a no-fly zone over
Syria than it was in Libya. U.S. officials said that the decision to arm the militants in Syria had been made weeks ago. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans
are against a military attack against Syria. A poll conducted by Gallup
last month showed that 68 percent of Americans said the United States
should not take any military action in Syria.
“It’s time for the American people
to wake up and let their members of Congress and their senators know:
stop it. Why should you sit back and let the president do these things?”
Paul asked.
On the House floor on Friday, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert
accused various federal agencies of aiding Islamic terrorists
organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the
Islamic Society of North America in their attempts to enact Sharia Law.
"We need to address the political correctness that is blinding our
agencies and blinding our military of its ability to see who the enemy
is, because it's getting people killed," Gohmert said. "When you refuse
to acknowledge that the Afghans you're training, may be willing to turn
their guns you're training them on and kill you...until you recognize
that and who our enemy is, and that our enemy can be among us, and that
our enemy can be in uniforms that we're supposed to be friendly with,
then more Americans are going to be killed needlessly."
Gohmert
accused the Obama administration of changing policy so that the FBI,
State Department, and others had to "partner with" CAIR and ISNA, rather
than treat mosques as terrorist recruitment centers.
"Any time
CAIR says, 'This offends us,' the FBI says, 'Oh, gee, we'd better change
it,'" Gohmert claimed. "When you've had the Fifth Circuit of the United
States Court of Appeals confirm that, yes, the evidence shows that
CAIR, Islamic Society of North America—those are front organizations for
the Muslim Brotherhood. They want Sharia law to be the law of the land,
not our Constitution. And that is what we did not take an oath to allow
to happen."
Gohmert also recalled his theory that the Obama
administration and various Congressional offices had been infiltrated by
the Muslim Brotherhood, especially by citizens born in the US to
parents on VISAs and later radicalized in their homelands—so-called
"terror babies"—which he called a "misinterpretation of the Fourteenth
Amendment." "So [Anwar] al-Awaki's family was free to come in on a
VISA for college, have al-Awlaki, take him back to Yemen, and
radicalize him, so that he had America, and as he did lead prayers here
on Capitol Hill with congressional Muslim staffers, and also have
contact with people in the administration," Gohmert said. "He was free
to come and go and radicalize people in America because he was an
American citizen."
"English starts 40 seconds into the video '
Every American needs to see this video. I understand that this is
just the views of one man but it contains more truth than you will get
from most media sources. Those on the left do not trust right-wing media
sources when we tell them that Barack Obama is in bed with terrorists. I
can understand the apprehension. I am not really trusting of anything I
see on MSNBC or CNN either. In truth most media sources have an agenda
and arguing who is wrong or right seems to keep us locked into a
downward spiral. We make no progress and don’t know where to turn for
the thing we want most – the truth.
So where do you get the truth if you can’t get it from our media? You
won’t get it from Al Jazeera. Several staffers just left them upon
allegations of being forced to report stories in support of the Muslim
Brotherhood. So my opinion is that taking the thoughts of one man
may be more credible than any of the media sources we have at our
disposal. So let’s hear the man out. This is Mazen Said and this is his message to Obama and Americans. The English starts 40 seconds into the video:
He brings up several interesting points. This is not a military coup, it is a revolution. The people are behind this and the military is acting on behalf of the people. That’s how it should be.
Note that he mentioned the Muslim Brotherhood in connection with Ambassador Stevens. He said they celebrated his death. What Americans don’t seem to understand is that the Benghazi mystery has already been solved.
Americans don’t grasp that concept because they are too busy watching
the drama of congress instead of going to the source. We have strong
evidence that Morsi and Obama made a deal to exchange Stevens for the
Blind Sheik. We know that those two men are as responsible for the death
of those four Americans as those who physically killed them.
So when he says that our President supports terrorists, many of us
already know this. But how do we wake the others up? Politics has this
nation divided.
I believe that Mazen Said is a good man but I believe his is a little
naive. The majority of Egyptians hate Americans and it’s not just
because of Obama. He may not hate me any more than I hate him but that
would certainly put him in the minority.
Either way I think he has a valid point. We have no business being in
the middle of this at all and certainly not on the side of Morsi and
the Muslim Brotherhood.
These are scary times in America. We have always been a warring
nation and we can’t deny that. But the fear in the hearts of Patriotic
Americans is that we are now choosing to support the side of evil and not the side of good while doing it consistently. In Syria we are supporting savages. In Egypt it is much the same.
So the difference today is that we are still fighters but suddenly we have awaken to find ourselves on the wrong side. We are no longer freedom fighters. We aid and abet terrorists all over the globe.
It has to stop.
People do get sick of hearing about it. They don’t have time to watch this video. There is a King of the Hill marathon on… The pizza rolls are in the oven… It’s ladies night at the local tavern… Whatever…
Do you know where I am now? I am at a Ronald McDonald House a long
way from home. We have been here for two weeks watching our twin girls
fight for their lives. I don’t have time to write this any more than
people have time to read it but I am making time knowing damn well that
most will choose to ignore it.
Why?
Because my girls will not grow up in a country ruled by tyrants. This
is not negotiable. I am willing to fight to my death to see this
country returned to righteousness.
Like the people of Egypt we will attempt to exhaust all other options but once we have done that there will be no other choice.
We have thousands of government officials who need to be removed. It
won’t be easy but it is our fault for letting it come to this.
We continue to scream loudly and they continue to ignore us. There
comes a time when the old dogs have to give up the bark and show them
the bite. Egypt did it and we can too.
Will Obama listen to Mazen Said? Hell no he won’t. But I will. And I
will take heart in knowing that Egypt might be just a little bit like
America. Maybe it is the minority that will save them in the end.
I can’t fall in love with a country where 61% of citizens believe that terrorist attacks on Americans are justified. But I can realize that 39% of Egyptians do not feel this way and take hope in that.
They probably share some of the same frustration as you and I. I hope
and pray that they will not see another tyrant rise to power. Honestly
that is what I see happening.
But you know what? I also see that happening here. At least the
people of Egypt are doing something about it and if they end up with
another tyrant they will hopefully do it again.
There will likely come a day when we must make the same decision.
Will we die for freedom or live as cowards?
Most of us are already dead. It was not meant to be this way.
This is America!
