Olberman: Worst Person in the World John McCain

11/30 on MSNBC

�Isolationism isn't what I advocate,�� Paul told Blitzer. �I advocate non-intervention, not getting involved in the internal affairs of other nations, and not pretending a country like Iraq is equivalent to Nazi Germany. Iraq had no army, no navy, had no weapons of mass destruction, had nothing to do with 9/11, so the comparison makes no sense.

Under what circumstances, if More.. he were president, would Paul intervene outside the borders of the United States in some sort of crisis around the world, Blitzer asked the candidate.

�When Congress directed me to in the act of war,�� Paul replied. �If our national security was threatened and we went through the proper procedures, Congress would say, our national security is involved, it is threatened and we have to act. And Congress has that responsibility. The president is the command-in- chief, and then he acts.��

On the war in Iraq, Paul said: �I don't believe we went to the war for the right reason. I mean, there were no weapons of mass destruction. It had nothing to do with 9/11. So we were there for the wrong reason and he doesn't understand the motivations for why they want to come here.

�It is not because, you know, we are wealthy and prosperous and free. They come here because we are in their country.

�And even if there is an improvement, which we all hope there is, we plan to keep 14 bases over there, a huge Naval base, and we have this huge embassy, we have a permanent plan to stay there and take over these $30 trillion worth of oil in that region. And the people in those countries know that and that is why they are very angry. And to deny that is folly. It just means that we have expanded the opportunity for the terrorists to come here because there is greater motivation. So I think we are in worse shape than ever before because there are al Qaeda than ever before. There was no al Qaeda in Iraq before, now they are all over the place, and their numbers are growing.

�So if we want to protect ourselves against terrorism, we have to understand what motivates them,�� he said. �Even Wolfowitz admitted this. He said that the base in Saudi Arabia was an instrumental part of what motivated Osama bin Laden. So if we ignore that, it is at our own folly.��

Paul also was asked about his assertion that there are some plans for an international highway afoot:

�Well, look up the Web site Security for Prosperity and Peace,, which is a government project, and they talk about the highway,�� he said. � Texas passed unanimously, in both house and senate, a resolution to put it on hold. We have a bill in the Congress to stop all of the funding for this particular highway, and I think we have over 50 co-sponsors of it.

�To be in denial of this, that this is not planned, they are not going to admit it. It is subtle. They will say we are just improving highways. But how come they had a meeting in April of 2005 with the president of Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and they talk about these things? So to be in denial is one thing. I mean, they do believe in globalism, much more so than most Americans. So I don't think there is any doubt about the plans. It is not going to happen tomorrow or the next day. But in time this is likely to happen unless we have a shift in foreign policy."

AND Ron Paul won the POST DEBATE POLL!

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