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Paul credits stance against war as sparking fundraising boost Charlotte Eby GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul credited his stance against the war in Iraq for his hefty fundraising haul over the weekend when he raised more than $6 million in a single day. Paul, a congressman from Texas, made a rare campaign appearance in Iowa’s capital city Monday, greeting a handful of supporters and a bank of TV cameras inside a hotel meeting room. Paul told the audience that young people and college students don’t like the war and find that even the Democrats helped authorize using force in Iraq. “I believe the war has been the igniting factor to the campaign from day one,” Paul said. He argued the country went to war in Iraq because of inaccurate information.
“We were told it had something to do with 9/11,” Paul said. “We were told that the Iraqis had a weapon of mass destruction, that they were a threat to us, and that our national security was threatened. And none of these reasons were true.” Paul said going to war without a declaration of war was “one of the worst things” the country has done. “We’ve been doing that since World War II. We haven’t won a war since then,” he said. He pledged he wouldn’t do that as president. “Just to deliberately start a war, a pre-emptive war against a third-world country that poses no threat, that should be no part of the American system of government,” he said.
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