Very cool...! Ron Paul prepares a reading list for Rudy

it's one thing to say something, be attacked for it, and then refute the attack... it's another thing entirely to refute the attack AND provide a solid, irrefutable stack of reading material to back up your original statement...

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East," Andy Sullivan reports for Reuters. "I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack of books that included the report by the commission that examined the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

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The "Reading for Rudy" list includes Chalmers Johnson's Blowback, Robert A. Pape's Dying to Win, and Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris, along with the 9-11 Commission Report.

paul also prepared brief excerpts from each as a kind of "executive summary", or, as paul termed it, "cliff's notes", in case rudy found himself short of time...

if i was in rudy's shoes, i would be thoroughly humiliated, but i would imagine his ego probably prevents him from even recognizing the depth of the insult... maybe paul could provide some humility guidelines to go along with the books and the cliff's notes...

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