Ron Paul: Lies Told To Justify Attack On Assad "Could Be Worse Than With Saddam Hussein"

Board chairman of the Mises Institute Lew Rockwell joins Ron Paul on Tuesday's edition of 'The Ron Paul Liberty Report' to discuss the Trump administration's stance on regime change in Syria.

"Who is it that says Assad has to go? Why does Assad have to go? It seems like a few of us might not claim that [Assad] is an angel," Paul said. "But there are people saing he's worse than Hitler. What is the truth about this?"

"He's in the Hitler-of-the-Month Club," Rockwell joked. "There's always somebody who's worse than Hitler. But I think Bibi Netanyahu has been calling the longest for Assad to be kicked out... But we have all the neo-cons that hate his guts. Why is that? I always think he is like Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Qaddafi in Libya: You have a guy who is a secularist -- not an Islamist, in fact an anti-Islamist. And he is pro-Christian. A pro-Christian Arab. He belongs to a very interesting sect called the Alawites, who are part Muslim, part Christian... I've always found him very interesting, he is not the typical dictator."

"He was a physician, an opthamologist, he left Syria to study in London, had a practice in London and started a family there. And he didn't want to be in politics. It was only the death of his older brother that caused him to come back, and I'm sure many times he has wished he was still an opthamologist back in London," he added.

"Certainly he's never done anything to America," Rockwell continued. "Whatever his sins are, faults, he's never done anything to us. Why is the U.S. now all of a sudden joining the chorus of people who say he should get the Qaddafi treatment and be brutally murdered and his family killed."

"Trump has turned even faster than Reagan turned and they didn't even need a bullet this time to do it to him," Rockwell said later about Trump's decision to bomb Syria. "Very, very unfortunate."

"ISIS has already benefitted from this," he continued. "They have started new attacks once the Syrian military was weakened. It seems like the U.S. despite all the propaganda may not really have it in for ISIS and al-Qaeda, they're actually helping cause the chaos that Empires always love. The Romans talked about divide and conquer. Make trouble and rule. That's the way Empires always work. So the U.S. wants constant trouble... It is sickening. Next they'll want to destroy Iran."

"This stretch, it might be equal to, or it could be worse than with Saddam Hussein," Ron Paul said. "All these lies! People still want to believe them."

Cohost Daniel McAdams comments: "Robert Perry, who I admire very much had a great piece the other day where he reported that the exact same journalist [New York Times reporter Michael B. Gordon] who was pushing the aluminum tubes story in Iraq is now pushing on Syria and this gas attack. Doesn't anybody see there is a problem here?"

The story about Saddam Hussein using alumininum tubes for nuclear centirfuges turned out to be untrue -- the tubes were for artillery. Gordon's co-author, Judith Miller, was the only U.S. journalist known to have lost their job over mistakes made during the leadup to the Iraq war.