Over at the Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul is warning of consequences from the US government escalating its military involvement in Iraq. Paul concludes:

Expect one day for this insanity of our foreign policy to translate into a much greater war in the region. When that comes, look for a stock market crash, oil prices to skyrocket and gold prices to soar.

Read and listen to Paul’s brief editorial here.

Paul warns in his editorial that increasing US military involvement in Iraq shows that the US is “falling off a cliff into the quagmire of an ever-worsening civil war in Iraq.”

In contrast, Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, insists “[t]here’s no mission creep,” despite President Barack Obama sending at least 650 American troops to Iraq in the past two weeks.

Who should we believe?

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