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Thanks for the quality and for fixing it. I was very disappointed when it died and I couldn't find a replacement.

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I think only the die hard Bushies and neo-con republicans think Ron Paul's view on the Iraq war is radical.  It's his other views many people take exception to and call radical.

Ron Paul's views would be great if we lived in a society where most everyone did the right thing and worked for the common good of society.  I don't think we live in such a society.  If the market were truly free as Ron Paul suggests it should be, it would be a race by the major corporations to see who could create the biggest monopoly.  The argument is that competition will rise up, but it's pretty hard for competition to be created when some other company controls all the infrastructure.  You think AT&T is going to let anyone else use it's phone lines?  The only reason the are competing companies to AT&T right now is because they're forced to share their lines with other companies, by *gasp* the federal government.

The other part is civil rights, Ron Paul himself has said he doesn't think the courts should have had anything to do with the civil rights movement, instead suggesting the changes should have been made locally.  Locally?!  Locally they were busy beating the crap out of peaceful protesters, turning fire hoses and dogs on them for daring to say they deserved equal treatment.  How long was that supposed to go on until something happened locally?

The federal government is there to step in when state and/or local systems of government fail to take action or can't in the interests of citizens well being.  Just as the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government act as a check and balance against each other, so do the state governments and the federal government act as a check and balance against each other.  If you neuter the federal government as Ron Paul suggests you destroy the ability for the federal government to act as a check on the state governments.

I'm not suggesting our current system is perfect, but its far from completely defunct.  From my stand point a few things have happened, one ideological view took control of the federal government.  Things went to shit in a hand basket and now the country has collectively shifted it away from ideology.  The executive branch was granted/took way too much power, I see this swinging back to a state of normalcy.  Bush is already effectively a lame duck president, though he still wields his "executive privilege" like a shield.  I think trying to fix what we have is a much more sensible solution than essentially scrapping everything.

I agree with Ron Paul on Iraq and I think history does indeed show that he was and is right about it.  Not just with the outcome of Iraq, but the outcome of similar wars and the history of the region.  I don't agree with him on other issues, I feel history has proven him wrong in that it has taken a strong federal government to push us past important mile stones as a nation.

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