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Ron Paul Condemns Killing of al Qaeda’s Awlaki
WashingtonWire blog on WSJ ^ | September 30, 2011, 11:00 AM ET | Elizabeth Williamson

Posted on 09/30/2011 10:12:21 AM PDT by ¢ommon ¢ents

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.–Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul condemned the U.S.-backed killing of al Qaeda figure and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.


Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul greets guests at a house party Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

“Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,” Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. “If the American people accept this blindly and casually…I think that’s sad.”

Mr. Awlaki, accused by the U.S. of planning al Qaeda attacks on U.S. citizens and recruiting terrorists, has been a longtime target of the U.S.

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TOPICS: Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; obama; ronpaul; texas
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To: fretzer

Not applicable. Like a pirate, he at war with all of civilized mankind, and may be killed out of hand by anyone who can reach him.


21 posted on 09/30/2011 10:48:08 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray

BS. He was a US citizen.


22 posted on 09/30/2011 10:49:22 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Good grief, go away Ron Paul. Get out of the Republican party and go run as the loopy libertarian you are. Enough already, Paul needs to just GO away and take his conspiracy nut truther brigades with him.


23 posted on 09/30/2011 10:54:20 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents
“Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,”

And... everybody now knows he won't in the future.

Actually, it's an idiotic argument. Do our troops in wartime EVER know whether the specific enemy soldier they're targeting has killed anyone? No. Leave it to Wrong Paul to side with the ACLU.

Had Awlaki been captured and sent to GITMO, he'd have become a cause celebre... another Mumia. There's enough on him to warrant the kill. Score one for the good guys.

He was filth... and he's now dead. Get over it, Wrong.

24 posted on 09/30/2011 10:59:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (With "successes" like the Libya adventure, who needs failure?)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents
How does this whack job poll above .001%?

He is one huge embarrassment to the Republican Party. Good grief, I wish he would just go away.

25 posted on 09/30/2011 11:00:48 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: fretzer
You either adhere to the Constitution or you don’t. Make your choice.

Exactly. There are some folks here who are opposed to the tyranny of the left but are quite comfortable imposing their own forms of tyranny.

26 posted on 09/30/2011 11:01:18 AM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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To: Longbow1969

I heard some pundit recently liken Wrong Paul to an annoying, loud guy in a bar. You can’t get far enough away from him and he just keeps blathering on.


27 posted on 09/30/2011 11:01:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (With "successes" like the Libya adventure, who needs failure?)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

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28 posted on 09/30/2011 11:01:28 AM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

**** ron paul.

LLS


29 posted on 09/30/2011 11:02:21 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Is the person that you support a Crony Capitalist... A.K.A. CRAPITALIST?)
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To: Little Ray
What the heck are we arguing about? There has been no constitutional violation here!

...except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger...

The fool was killed in the battlefield, period.
Don't want to die? Don't go up against America

30 posted on 09/30/2011 11:02:21 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: fretzer

Si were the Rosenbergs!


31 posted on 09/30/2011 11:03:25 AM PDT by navyblue (<u>)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Well... we can just say we attacked the other members of his convoy and Awlaki was at the “wrong place at the wrong time.”

Collateral damage... it’s not like we’re talking about a human.


32 posted on 09/30/2011 11:05:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (With "successes" like the Libya adventure, who needs failure?)
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To: navyblue

Si = So


33 posted on 09/30/2011 11:06:47 AM PDT by navyblue (<u>)
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To: navyblue
Yes, and the Rosenbergs were arrested, tried, convicted and executed. No problem. Case closed.
34 posted on 09/30/2011 11:06:53 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: stormhill

I think we arguing about just how bloody insane Ron Paul and his Libertines are.


35 posted on 09/30/2011 11:08:58 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: stormhill

Read the entire amendment.

“... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

You are sounding just like a lefty hoplophobe picking apart the Second Amendment.


36 posted on 09/30/2011 11:11:09 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

I used to say “Ron Paul is a NUT!” But this latest statement proves “Ron Paul is a raving lunatic!”


37 posted on 09/30/2011 11:12:07 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: Little Ray

The science on that is settled


38 posted on 09/30/2011 11:13:51 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: fretzer

In a hot pursuit situation, due process of law mostly involves making sure you don’t miss


39 posted on 09/30/2011 11:16:07 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: albie
“Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,”

Right Ron. And that is why we never actually kill anybody on the battlefield. I mean how do we know it that guy I am about to shoot has ever killed anybody. Heck, he may have been a really lousy shot and never hit anyone. So we always just take prisoners and never really kill anyone.

Ron Paul is an idiot.

40 posted on 09/30/2011 11:22:44 AM PDT by mc5cents
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