Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Sunday he thinks u.s. foreign policy flaw “contributing” causes that led to the September 11 terrorist attacks, although he stopped short of saying the attack was a “Mistake.”
Paul, who appeared on CBS’S “Face the Nation,” said there was a “connection” between us policy and 9/11 attacks, and that “the policy has an effect.”
“I think there is influence,” Paul, Libertarian, said CBS’S Bob Schieffer. “That’s what it is, You know, 9/11 Commission said. That’s exactly what it says DOD … That is what many researchers say. Just remember, immediately after 9/11, we remove the base from Saudi Arabia. So there is a connection. “
The Texas Congress, a longtime popularity recently see uptick in the polls Of the GOP, suggested that the United States military presence abroad fostering anti-American sentiment which in turn led to the action against the Americans.
“You talk to people who do that and people who want to do us harm, they say, ‘ Yes, we do not like the American bombs will fall in our country. We do not like the intervention that we committed in their countries. ‘ So to deny this, I think, is very dangerous-but to argue the case that they want us losses because we are free and prosperous, I think, is the idea that very, very dangerous because it is not true. ”