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Stance:
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Pull Out Troops
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Description:
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Congressman Paul advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy that avoids entangling alliances. He believes that when a war must be fought, it must be fought to protect the citizens, be declared by Congress, planned out, won and then left: "The American public deserves clear goals and a definite exit strategy in Iraq." On June 7, 2007 Representative Ron Paul introduced HR 2605 IH, Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007. This bill proposed that congress needed to pull out or declare war on Iraq within 6 months.
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Republican Debate Transcript, Simi Valley California, May 3, 2007 (8/6/07)
"That's a very good question. And you might ask the question, why are 70 percent of the American people now wanting us out of there, and why did the Republicans do so poorly last year?
So I would suggest that we should look at foreign policy. I'm suggesting very strongly that we should have a foreign policy of non- intervention, the traditional American foreign policy and the Republican foreign policy.
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American -- it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
I tried very hard to solve this problem before we went to war by saying, "Declare war if you want to go to war. Go to war, fight it and win it, but don't get into it for political reasons or to enforce U.N. resolutions or pretend the Iraqis were a national threat to us."
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Republican Presidential Debate, June 5, 2007 (8/5/07)
"The sooner we come home, the better. If they declare there's no progress in September, we should come home. It was a mistake to go, so it's a mistake to stay.
If we made the wrong diagnosis, we should change the treatment. So we're not making progress there and we should come home.
The weapons weren't there and we went in under U.N. resolutions. And our national security was not threatened. We're more threatened now by staying."
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Republican Debate Transcript, South Carolina (8/4/07)
"But you have to realize that the base of the Republican Party shrunk last year because of the war issue. So that percentage represents less people. If you look at 65 to 70 percent of the American people, they want us out of there. They want the war over.
In 19- -- 2002, I offerer an amendment to International Relations to declare war, up or down, and it was -- nobody voted for the war. And my argument there was, if we want to go to war, and if we should go to war, the Congress should declare it. We don't go to war like we did in Vietnam and Korea, because the wars never end. And I argued the case and made the point that it would be a quagmire if we go in.
Ronald Reagan in 1983 sent Marines into Lebanon, and he said he would never turn tail and run. A few months later, the Marines were killed, 241 were killed, and the Marines were taken out. And Reagan addressed this subject in his memoirs. And he says, "I said I would never turn tail and run." He says, "But I never realized the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics," and he changed his policy there.
We need the courage of a Ronald Reagan."
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Terrorism: Ron Paul vs. Giuliani @ SC Debate (8/4/07)
Ron Paul advocates a non-interventionist policy.
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Entangling Alliances Distort our Foreign Policy (7/5/07)
Paul advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy that avoids entangling alliances.
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Can We Afford to Occupy Iraq? (7/5/07)
American needs an exit strategy in Iraq.
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Defund the War by Rep. Ron Paul (7/29/07)
Representative Ron Paul wants to stop the Iraq war.
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Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007 (HR 2605 IH) (7/28/07)
This is "To establish a sunset for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" which was introduced by Ron Paul on June 7, 2007.
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Ron Paul Speech to Congress on 9-25-01 (10/13/07)
"Mr. Speaker, I support President Bush and voted for the authority and the money to carry out his responsibility to defend this country, but the degree of death and destruction and chances of escalation must be carefully taken into consideration." - Ron Paul
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