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Ron Paul Loudly Booed After Blaming US Foreign Policy for Terrorist Attacks [Video]
Breitbart TV ^ | September 12, 2011 at 6:46 pm - CNN | Ron Paul, Rick Santorum

Posted on 09/12/2011 10:08:48 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Ron Paul was roundly booed at the GOP debate after very unpopular comments about US foreign policies in the Arab world.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blameamericafirst; ronpaul; terrorism; undeservedzot
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Since September 2001, I’ve spent over 72 months deployed between AD then “retirement” in places such as Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Turkey, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is NOT because of our “Freedom”, trust me. Its blow back from stupid misguided interventions, picking one crappy place over the other, where we had no real national interest, but making money…case in point our recent involvement (and still ongoing) in Libya . Mark my words, Gaddafi was certainly no saint, but we were far off better with him in power than who will succeed him…


61 posted on 09/13/2011 5:19:37 AM PDT by AH-1S Pilot
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Since September 2001, I’ve spent over 72 months deployed between AD then “retirement” in places such as Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Turkey, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is NOT because of our “Freedom”, trust me. Its blow back from stupid misguided interventions, picking one crappy place over the other, where we had no real national interest, but making money…case in point our recent involvement (and still ongoing) in Libya . Mark my words, Gaddafi was certainly no saint, but we were far off better with him in power than who will succeed him…


62 posted on 09/13/2011 5:22:39 AM PDT by AH-1S Pilot
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To: AH-1S Pilot

So you blame America for 9/11.

Paul is your guy then.


63 posted on 09/13/2011 5:28:17 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: AH-1S Pilot

Do you side with the terrorists on this one as well?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2776992/posts


64 posted on 09/13/2011 5:29:58 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: AH-1S Pilot

>>It is NOT because of our “Freedom”, trust me.<<

No, I do NOT trust you.

I know enough about Islam and its adherents to know they are about dominating and forcing every infidel into submission to Allah. Period.

(See video I just posted for an example)

Your trying to blame America is a pack of lies. Sell it on down the road.

And take your looney-tunes candidate with you.


65 posted on 09/13/2011 5:33:13 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Well you just stay there in your recliner watching Fox news and be the full informed guy on world affairs that you obviously are!


66 posted on 09/13/2011 5:58:13 AM PDT by AH-1S Pilot
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Paul believes we deserved to be attacked on 9/11.

What’s your response to that, Paultard?


67 posted on 09/13/2011 6:06:43 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: submarinerswife
Just waiting for Paul to finally jump that last shark and say America's chickens... have come home... to roost..
68 posted on 09/13/2011 6:23:32 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: AH-1S Pilot
So I take it you agree with Paul when he said: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians... and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”?
69 posted on 09/13/2011 6:25:58 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: AH-1S Pilot

For the record, I am an Southern Baptist Christian but I really doubt if you know much about Islam or Christianity or the history of the Middle East, unless it written by AIPAC. Take care, good morning in Texas and good night from where I am keeping the world safe for Neocons, Chicken hawks and their Sycophants and “who have had better things to do.”


70 posted on 09/13/2011 6:27:46 AM PDT by AH-1S Pilot
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To: Hunton Peck

It’s a disgrace to say something like this the day after the tenth anniversary of 9/11


71 posted on 09/13/2011 7:02:58 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: Hunton Peck

Ugh. I’m a libertarian (more or less) and firmly believe we meddle in world affairs way too much. But Paul’s comments take the cake. Blaming ourselves for 9-11 is like blaming the Holocaust on British and French appeasement of Hitler.

Domestically, I think we are screwed if we don’t reign in spending dramatically and cut the size and scope of government by a decent margin. And, IMO, that includes the military. Paul’s positions on these things make him an attractive candidate to me.

But his blindingly stupid comment on 9/11 just make my head explode.


72 posted on 09/13/2011 7:09:24 AM PDT by jjm2111
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To: submarinerswife
Paul believes we deserved to be attacked on 9/11. What’s your response to that, Paultard?

You will have to substantiate that claim. That is what we do here on FR with claims that look to be wild. So, as soon as you cite that reference, I will reply.

In the mean time, I am still waiting for the answer to the question I posed to you. It is a policy question, an important one I think in these times of wars and tight budgets.

To give you that question again, for the second time, do we need all 900 military bases around the world or would we be better to redirect those expenses in a defensive stance rather than a military one?

Remember, liberals try to wriggle out of answering questions by changing subjects or resorting to ad hominem attack. Here on FR we face tough issues, debate them.

73 posted on 09/13/2011 7:13:13 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: AH-1S Pilot; Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Allow me to give you a realistic and pragmatic bump

Powell Doctrine

Wolfowitz Doctrine

74 posted on 09/13/2011 7:24:25 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: AH-1S Pilot

“I really doubt if you know much about Islam or Christianity or the history of the Middle East”

Wrong on all counts. But go ahead, keep blaming America.


75 posted on 09/13/2011 7:34:57 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: AH-1S Pilot

Victor Davis Hanson writes it much better than I ever could.

Why did radical Islamic terrorists kill almost 3,000 Americans a decade ago?

Few still believe the old myth that U.S. foreign policy or support for Israel logically earned us Osama bin Laden’s wrath. After all, the U.S. throughout the 1990s had saved Islamic peoples from Bosnia and Kosovo to Somalia and Kuwait. Russia and China, in contrast, had oppressed or killed tens of thousands of their own Muslims without much fear of provoking al-Qaeda.

Moreover, thousands of Arabs have been killed recently, but by their own Libyan and Syrian governments, not Israeli Defense Forces. Al-Qaeda still issues death threats to Americans even though its original pretexts for going to war — such as U.S. troops stationed in Saudi Arabia — have long been irrelevant.

On this ten-year anniversary of 9/11, no one has yet refuted the general truth that bin Laden tried to hijack popular Arab discontent over endemic poverty and self-induced misery. In cynical Hitlerian fashion, al-Qaeda’s propagandists sought to blame the mess of the Arab Middle East on Jews and foreigners, rather than seeking to address homegrown corrupt kleptocracies, inefficient statism, indigenous tribalism, gender apartheid, and religious fundamentalism and intolerance.

Past Western appeasement of terrorism only convinced the manipulative bin Laden that he might kill Westerners without much fear of retaliation, as he presented himself to the Islamic street as the new Saladin who had humbled the Western infidel.


76 posted on 09/13/2011 7:42:16 AM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Bushbacker1
We, myself and about 15 other Freepers, were at the debate watch party in Tampa, and your statement doesn't even come close to how looney tunes they are! There was a sizable contingent, carry Paul signs and being as obnoxious as they could be!

What did they do when the booing started? ;-)

77 posted on 09/13/2011 7:45:04 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Patrick1

As much as our efforts, OBL and AQ’s willingness to slaughter other Arabs and Muslims led to their demise. Nothing erodes support among the Arab masses than blowing up wedding parties because the participants were “Muslim enough”.


78 posted on 09/13/2011 7:54:57 AM PDT by jjm2111
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To: AH-1S Pilot
then “retirement” in places such as Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Turkey, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is NOT because of our “Freedom”, trust me. Its blow back from stupid misguided interventions, picking one crappy place over the other, where we had no real national interest, but making money…

Good grief....I thought for a moment that I'd accidentally made a left turn and ended up on DU.

I've spent the last 7+ years deployed in Iraq working with the troops and I heartily disagree with you.

79 posted on 09/13/2011 8:06:29 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Claiming that a person that has successfully run for and been elected to congress numerous times is a complete loon is itself a completely looney statement.

Nanci Pelousi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd, Bwawney Fwank, Harry Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Jerry Brown, Charlie Rangel, . . . . . . . et al.

All these people have successfully run for and been reelected to office. Some of them numerous times. Yet, these are people who are completely off their rockers. Just because the people in R-U-N Paul's district aren't smart enough to figure out how crazy Paul is doesn't mean he's not crazy.

80 posted on 09/13/2011 8:14:12 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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