Posted on 09/06/2007 9:55:24 PM PDT by freedomdefender
One last thing.
I can’t seem to find where Congress declared war on the Taliban, or with Afghanistan.
Did we declare war with the invasion of Afghanistan? If we didn’t, then Ron Paul needs to stand up against our involvement there as well.
You know, just to be consistent. I mean, if he’s going to be ignorant about the requirements and capabilities of a terrorist war. I understand his point about Russia and their 40,000 nukes, but any attempt by Russia to attack us would have been SEEN.
With these rogue nations like Iran, North Korea, and Saddam’s Iraq, we see the capability of anti-American foreign powers handing off WMD technology to terrorist cells to absolve themselves of any wrongdoing. It’d be hard to pin them. Understand?
Soviet Russia was an entirely different beast compared to Iran. But if it came down a nuclear attack, Iran would be far more invisible than Russia ever could have been.
And quite frankly, one nuke is deadly enough.
40,000 in the hands of a nation that knows we’d fire back out of retaliaiton?
Or a handful - maybe less than a 100 - in the hands of a nation that’ll hand them off to terrorist groups to be spread all over the world?
Honestly, I prefer the former scenario. At least then you have a nation with enough sanity to know that any nuclear attack would lead to nuclear war and thus their total annihilation. With Iran...well, you don’t have that sanity.
Then again, if we still treated treasonous politicians and media figures like we treated the Rosenburgs, maybe the situation would be different. I don’t know.
But the Cold War and the WOT are two veeeery different things. That Ron Paul doesn’t recognize this is troubling, IMHO.
"HALT! I command you to drop that box-cutter, in the name of Milton Friedman SMITH & WESSON!"
That's how.
I fixed your post in an effort to help you understand.
They will all be gone in Feb/March when primary after primary shows Paul coming in at under 1-2%. Till then we will have to put up with the lectures/ramblings/dementia from the Paulistians on just what color the sky is on their planet.
The Republican base isn’t disillusioned for no reason at all, you know...and the reasons why the base is disillusioned won’t go away with a Ron Paul defeat.
Uhh..Careful, sir, that is beginning to sound like democracy.
This guy's cluelessness would be dangerous if he were to be in any position of true leadership.
Good freakin' grief.
I know JimRob set forth guiding principles in a worthy post back in 2004, but I didn't realize he meant that there were one-issue litmus tests here.
If so, I think everyone supporting Giuliani should be booted off b/c he's doesn't toe all of the FR line -- notably guns and abortion.
Actually, anybody who supports McCain should be booted off as well because of, among other things (and other than strictly on principle), McCain-Feingold.
For that matter anybody who supports Thompson (waffler on McCain-Feingold, abortion, and affirmative action) and Romney (the former governor of the most liberal state in the nation who oh-so conveniently changed his views on abortion, gays, etc. only after he left the governor's office and started running for president) deserve the zot as well.
Only Duncan Hunter supporters can stay.
Happy?
Please. The hypocrisy of the usual thread spammers here is only outweighed by the chunks I've blown.
All of the above?
Yeah, that’s one MORE thing.
Ron Paul cited the IAEA as a reason why Iran shouldn’t be attacked in the near future.
The IAEA (directed by El Baradei, don’t forget that!) is an agency of the UN.
So essentially, Mr. “UN out of the US, US out of the UN” had no problem citing El Baradei’s UN agency to promote his anti-war agenda.
Mm-hmm.
We need to get out of the UN before we can ignore them. Right now we are bound by them.
I miss Lyndon La Rouche.
I seem to recall that much of the UN thinks we acted without their authorization. Sure, we think that Iraq’s violations of the UN Resolutions were part of our justification for war, but much of the UN didn’t.
But I’m all for getting out of the corrupt cesspool that is the UN.
Yes we didn’t get UN approval to enforce the UN resolutions that we put in our ‘Declaration of war’...
The UN sucks.
He’s inspired passion in me. A passion to see him defeated. He is a disgrace to the republican party.
Yes, well as I remember, they were too busy cursing each other's mustaches and stuff.
And Pat Buchanan.
I’m a 27 year old lifelong conservative who grew disillusioned with the GOP when they failed to reign in spending, failed to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, and then GAVE UP and attacked a country that was no threat to our national security.
Meanwhile, SAUDI ARABIA is the leading sponsor of terrorism, and something like 11 of the 19 hijackers on Sept 11th 2001 were SAUDIS and yet we do nothing to them.
And we’re supposed to feel great about dropping nuclear weapons on Iran? We should be helping to advance the cause of freedom for the large percentage of young and professional people who want freedom there! Not nuking them so they will turn towards the mullahs and radical Islam!
Where are the leaders that saved us from the Cold War? I agree that radical, theocratic, fascist Islam is the biggest threat to our national security and we can’t let them get nukes. But I have to wonder, what ever happened to MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION? We should have started with Riyadh. October 1st, 2001.
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