Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- How We Can Stop the Coming War With Russia
Aired: 2023-02-16
Duration: 03:49


=== Lying Us Into War (03:28) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, How We Can Stop the Coming War with Russia.
[00:00:07]  20 years ago this spring, the U.S. government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq.
[00:00:14]  Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country.
[00:00:21]  But finally, 20 years ago next month, the Bush administration unleashed shock and awe to flatten a country that did not and could not threaten the United States.
[00:00:34]  After eight years of battle in Iraq, perhaps as many as a million innocent people died, either directly or indirectly from Washington's aggression.
[00:00:45]  No one was brought before a tribunal over the lies and destruction.
[00:00:49]  No one even apologized.
[00:00:51]  Washington's puppet of the day, Ahmed Shalabi, brushed off the lies about Iraq's WMDs by proclaiming that the war promoters were heroes in error.
[00:01:04]  They got the regime changed, and that is all they cared about.
[00:01:08]  The propaganda machine pushing the Iraq war seemed overwhelming at the time.
[00:01:15]  At that time, several fellow members of Congress began to open communications across party lines to look for ways to stop the war.
[00:01:25]  From conservatives like the late Walter Jones and John Duncan, to progressives like Representative Dennis Kucinich and Jim McGovern, and so many more, we began to organize and strategize.
[00:01:40]  One tool we used to our advantage was the idea of an improbable coalition of the left and right uniting to oppose the war.
[00:01:49]  The media may not have been interested in our anti-war views, but they could not help themselves when presented with this man bites dog story.
[00:02:00]  Time and again, this unlikely group held press conferences, introduced various legislative tools, and communicated behind the scenes to try and grow the movement against the Iraq war.
[00:02:13]  Unfortunately, with the 2008 election of Barack Obama, who ran as an anti-war candidate, but then launched numerous military attacks abroad, that old coalition fell apart.
[00:02:29]  Some progressives excused Obama's militarism and lost interest in cooperating with conservatives.
[00:02:36]  Some conservatives were driven by their personal dislike of Obama and lost sight of the target.
[00:02:43]  Suddenly, as we face the once unimaginable prospect of a direct military conflict with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, as well as my good friend and fellow libertarian Judge Andrew Lapolitano and so many more speakers from a broad political spectrum.
[00:03:04]  Many of us have watched with alarm as the Biden administration, with the enthusiastic backing of many congressional Republicans, has continuously escalated involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and now sits dangerously close to a direct hot war with the largest nuclear superpower on earth.

=== Join Us Still Matter (00:20) ===

[00:03:28]  How did we get here?
[00:03:31]  Where are the same voices and cooler heads?
[00:03:34]  Just when it seemed they were nowhere to be found, here we are.
[00:03:39]  I hope as many people as possible will join us and continue to come together for this important cause.
[00:03:46]  We must join together while we still can.