Former congressman Ron Paul is refusing to curb his condemnation of the current White House’s foreign policy, blasting United States President Barack Obama further in a new op-ed concerning possible US intervention in Iraq.
An editorial published
on Paul’s website on Sunday reiterates previously remarks made by the
longtime lawmaker in recent days in which he’s spoken out against
American interventionism, particularly with regards to rumors that the
US military will soon take action in war-torn Iraq.
“The same foreign policy ‘experts’ who lied us into the Iraq [W]ar are now telling us we must re-invade Iraq to deal with the disaster caused by their invasion!” the three-time presidential hopeful exclaimed in an op-ed published on the Ron Paul Institute official site. “They
cannot admit they were wrong about the invasion being a ‘cakewalk’ that
would pay for itself, so they want to blame last week’s events on the
2011 US withdrawal from Iraq.
But the trouble started with the 2003 invasion itself, not the 2011
troop withdrawal. Anyone who understands cause and effect should
understand this,” he wrote.
“A big US government weapons transfer to Iraq will no doubt be favored by the US military-industrial complex, which stands to profit further from the Iraq meltdown,” he added. “This move will also be favored by those in Washington who realize how politically unpopular a third US invasion of Iraq
would be at home, but who want to ‘do something’ in the face of the
crisis. Shipping weapons may be an action short of war, but it usually
leads to war. And as we have already seen in Iraq and Syria, very often these weapons fall into the hands of the Al-Qaeda we are supposed to be fighting!”
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