A Voice of Peace and Reason in the House

Congressman Ron Paul reminds his colleagues that "the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one-trillion-dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran" — Sanctions on Iran Is an Act of War. "The parallels are astonishing," he says, continuing:

We hear war advocates today on the Floor scare-mongering about reports that in one year Iran will have missiles that can hit the United States. Where have we heard this bombast before? Anyone remember the claims that Iraqi drones were going to fly over the United States and attack us? These "drones" ended up being pure propaganda – the UN chief weapons inspector concluded in 2004 that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had ever developed unpiloted drones for use on enemy targets. Of course by then the propagandists had gotten their war so the truth did not matter much.

We hear war advocates on the floor today arguing that we cannot afford to sit around and wait for Iran to detonate a nuclear weapon. Where have we heard this before? Anyone remember then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s oft-repeated quip about Iraq, that we cannot wait for the smoking gun to appear as a mushroom cloud?

"The sanctions in this bill, and the blockade of Iran necessary to fully enforce them, are in themselves acts of war according to international law," he says. "I urge my colleagues in the strongest terms to turn back from this unnecessary and counterproductive march to war."

UPDATE: Video of the above — God Bless Ron Paul.