Honorable Ron Paul
U.S. Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Paul, of the Fourteenth District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in April 1976. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. The following is excerpted from his statement during the July 27, 2010, House floor debate on House Concurrent Resolution 301, directing the president to remove U.S. Armed Forces from Pakistan. First off, I would like to address the subject about hostilities. It is true that there are no armies facing each other and shooting and killing each other, no tanks, no conventional type of hostilities. We don’t live in a conventional era,…
