I found it! Fred Thompson video on 9-11

The first link I posted worked until the original member removed it.  Here it is by a different member.  Same video.  Please watch. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpYHIlWzb0

good speech.   Fred seems like a good guy.  I watched some of his other videos on Fox.  My main concern with Fred is the same concern I have with Bush.  He wants to continue the war, and on Fox he answered many questions with "i don't know yet, its too early to formulate a solution."

in all fairness to fred, he's smart not to put out his views before thinking about them.  But at the same time, why run for president if your not sure where you stand yet on the side issues?  Why hasn't he thought about them?  His website also did not list any of his stances, yet ... except, continue fighting in iraq.

Fred also mentioned raising taxes on Gas to reduce or dependence on foreign oil.  Good idea reducing our dependence.  so why does he want to continue the iraq war if we're reducing our dependence.  This doesn't compute to me.  We're staying in Iraq FOR the Oil.  If it was independence Iraq wanted, they already have it.  We've given the freedom and a new government and a new constitution.  What are we there protecting?  Their freedom?  come on :)

Verdict is still out on Fred.  I'm for republicans that want to Lower taxes and end the war.

Here is what Fred said about Iraq and a few other things in his interview on Fox with Mike Wallace.

WALLACE: What would you do now in Iraq?

THOMPSON: "I would do essentially what the president's doing. I know it's not popular right now, but I think we have to look down the road and consider the consequences of where we are.

We're the leader of the free world whether we like it or not. People are looking to us to test our resolve and see what we're willing to do in resolving the situation that we have there. People think that if we hadn't gone down there, things would have been lovely.

If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today.

We've got to rectify the mistakes that we've made. We went in there too light, wrong rules of engagement, wrong strategy, placed too much emphasis on just holding things in place while we built up the Iraqi army, took longer than we figured.

Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now. We're coming in with good people. We're coming in with a lot of different people. I know General Petraeus from when he was in Tennessee at Fort Campbell. He believes in the plan. He's convinced me that they can do the job.

Why would we not take any chance, even though there's certainly no guarantees, to not be run out of that place? I mean, we've got to take that opportunity and give it a chance to work."

On Amnesty:

"I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we're insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we'll talk about what to do with regard to other things — certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that."

Gun Control:

WALLACE: So this federal court — appeals court ruling this last week, I guess Friday, in the case of D.C. — you'd be perfectly happy to have people have handguns in their homes?

THOMPSON: "Yes. Absolutely. The court basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."

Dependence on foreign oil:

WALLACE: One area where you have been critical of President Bush is that you say that he never spread the burden, he never made all Americans share in the sacrifice.

And you have talked about the fact that we need to end our dependence on foreign oil. Would you impose a gas tax to push us in that direction?

THOMPSON: "Well, you're getting a little bit further down in the weeds than I want to go right now. I don't know. I'm studying it. I don't know the answer to that question.

We're going to have to do some things differently. We're going to have to think differently about solutions.

You know, it's a price matter more than anything else. You know, gas is — I mean, oil is fungible. And there's going to be oil in different parts of the world having a price set, you know, that we're going to have to live with one way or another.

We can't ever be totally independent of it, but we can do some things to make it a lot better. We're going to have to look at fuel emission standards and things of that nature, things that we don't like to look at.

And things have got to be on the table, because we can't keep funding a part of the world that's causing us so much problems."

On John McCains' Campaign Finanace Reform

WALLACE: On the other hand, you have taken some stands that conservatives may not like. For instance, you voted for John McCain's campaign finance reform.

THOMPSON: "I came from the outside to Congress. And it always seemed strange to me. We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them.

I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world. And so I always thought that there was some reasonable limitation that ought to be put on that, and you know, looking back on history, Barry Goldwater in his heyday felt the same thing.

So that's not a non-conservative position, although I agree that a lot of people have interpreted it that way."

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About Iraq, I feel like he thinks the whole thing was handled wrong but we can't cut and run.  He wants to fix the mistakes and be done with it.  I don't have a problem with that.

Melinda in TN said: The first link I posted worked until the original member removed it.  Here it is by a different member.  Same video.  Please watch.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpYHIlWzb0

Thank you big time for this vid. How quick the Liberals forgot about a year into the "War On Terror"