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There is easily available testimony from the best among us, warrior scholars such as Jim Webb, Lawrence Wilkerson, Wesley Clark and the gone-but-not-forgotten Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, that the invasion of Iraq was a plot by a very small group of governmental advisers and mainstream journalists who had commandeered the so-very-vulnerable imagination of then-President George W. Bush. At the time it was apparent to anyone who cared to look. But Congress did not care to look. Today, as Iraq falls apart, we pay the price: the price of George W. Bush, and the Congress of Easter Peeps is Ron Paul.

Paul’s influence is authentic and real. If he wins Iowa he could then go on to New Hampshire, but Iowa is more important. It represents the heart, which in the end drives America, and to which America will ultimately answer.

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