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If government is the opposite of liberty the government in our country was created to protect liberty. unfortunately in the past few decades they have been misled and they are stealing the liberty from us. but something pretty big is happening in this country not only with the selection, but a change in sentiment, a lot of enthusiasm now for the cause of more freedom and less government, less war, and a free market economy. >> we do a fair amount of criticizing the current administration, which deserves it, and -- but our problems didn't occur in the last three years. our problems have been ar...

I offered an amendment that said to declare war. when i discussed it, i want i don't want the war, i'm going to vote against this amendment. but if you want the war, you should go to war in a proper fashion and vote it up or down. and, of course, they ridiculed this, they didn't want to vote, they voted. the voice vote was all no, they didn't want to pass it. then i forced them to have a recorded vote which further annoyed them. they didn't want to be on record, and of course everybody voted against it. in the discussion, the chairman of the committee explained that i was offbase to talk about...

>> you know, the problems that have had since 9/11 have been significant. that was a bad day for all americans. many americans died. it was a very, very tough time. i was supportive of going after those individuals who were responsible and we should have done it, and we did do it, but unfortunately it provided an opportunity for our government to do a lot of things they shouldn't have done and used it as an excuse. for instance, this was their excuse to do something that they had been waiting to do, and that was to invade and overthrow the government of iraq. iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. ...

If we're going to have rule of law, peace and prosperity, we have to force the people who represent us. the president on down saying only people there who know hose to read and understand and will take their oath of office seriously. but because we have delivered solve power to the executive branch, we go to war without declaration, we have delivered the legislative process to the executive branch. technically under our constitution only the legislative body, the congress, writes laws. thing of all the regulations, the federal register. thousands and thousands of pages, and every year the numb...

Constitution to try to prevent wars of that sort. the provision is simply that presidents aren't allow to go to war without a declaration of war. the congress and the people through their congressman are supposed to make these declarations. i was serving on the international affairs committee when the resolution was coming along to give this they're to the president. it wasn't a declaration of war, so i want, look, this is going to lead to war. what they want to do is just give the authority to the president to do whatever he thought was necessary. they had been wanting the war for about six o...