[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

What the...?

[Jukeman]

Yeah sure Israel started Hamas just like they put Hitler in Office. How does it go? Those who attack the “apple of my eye” will be cursed.

[Impy]

Does this fruitcake WANT to lose?

[rsobin]

What is the history here? Did Israel encourage a group to oppose Arafat? Did that group later become Hamas? I do not know. Do you?

[rdl6989]

He’s crazy, but you all knew that I suspect.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Funny, his buddy Alex Jones say’s it was the CIA.

[mylife]

Did you know Deke Leonard wrote a book about Ron Paul?

[richardtavor]

Having been there at the time, paulistsas are totally deluded. Good luck with electing this ‘person’.

[Old Sarge]

[Tijeras_Slim]

RP reminds me of every old dude I’ve been stuck next to on a Greyhound bus between Topeka and Pittsburgh.

[RatRipper]

In an episode of MASH,Harry Morgan played a doctor who visited the 4077th. At first he seem a little strange, but by the end of the show, everybody knew the guy was completely fruitcake nuts.

Such is the progression of Ron Paul’s public persona in this campaign. Many of us here on FR knew it beforehand.

[Gator113]

Yet there are morons that intend to help that loon get nominated.

It’s about the stupid, stupid.

[TsonicTsunami08]

Why do I have the image of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon where he holds up a picture of a screw and a baseball? Ron Paul is a retard ...... no offense to retards.

[Secret Agent Man]

Perhaps using his absurd, idiotic, warped logic that “The bad things that others do to us is because of our own actions”, I can see where he’d say Israel created Hamas.

[gusty]

I am no Ron Paul supporter, but he is somewhat correct that the Israelis supported Hamas. They did so at a time when the world was a very different place than it is now. Back in the 70’s and 80’s the menace was Communism. Even in the Middle East the Palestinian terror groups were all secular left wing outfits. How soon we forget George Habash and the PFLP, and Abu Nidal, who Saddam had whacked because he knew too much.Does anybody remember that the PLO operated with others like Carlos the Jackal and the Baader Meinhoff Gang. Just like the rest of the Western World, Israel saw Islamic groups as a counterweight to the leftist PLO in the occupied territories. Many saw Islam as a weapon to be used against the Soviets and their puppets. Even during the 1982 Lebanon War the same people who make up the core support for Hezbollah welcomed the Israelis as liberators in South Lebanon. These groups were seen as foes of the PLO, both Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza and Hezbollah in South Lebanon. At the same time we provided support to Islamic groups in Afghanistan. Some remained lifelong allies like Massood in the Panjshir Valley, while others like Hekmatyar we are fighting today.
The fact that Israel supported Hamas 30 years ago is no secret. I learned this in a book I read about the original Intifada back in the early 90’s. It was written by journalists from the Jerusalem Post. The real response is so what. They and everybody else did not foresee that this would turn into a real Frankenstein's monster. The whole foreign policy establishment of the western world saw Islam as some conservative religion that was ready to battle Communism. That it turned against us was not predicted by anybody at the time. Even at the time of the rise of the Ayatollahs, the talk of military action was not of fighting Iran, but of taking on the Soviets inside Iran if they invaded the place.
In context, the Israelis were acting no different than anybody else did during the Cold War.

[Arrowhead1952]

Yup, he is totally nuts.

[Karliner]

Gads, and folks in my okld church were adament for this guy alsy election. One wonder, no I wonder what could have been worse, Ron paul's weird , no mentally ill statements and written propaganda or Obama the manchurian candidate who has NO past history.

We NEED Obabam's reacoed, but more than anything I think Obama will lose on his own publicized history. One might hink past history is always good and bad but with none exhudes pure paranois. As for paul his past Hx gives him a rare passs into the mental facility of his choice. Were Obama's past enlightenedMe thinketh his past would pale in comparison to Paul's nevertheless red flags and my tin foil hat will not save me from this Obama whoever he is and from Paul, I now know too much to even consider him anything more than a cult leader, not a presidential candidate.

[PhilDragoo]

If you look at the history, Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel.

To grasp how evil and dangerous is this lie of Ron Paul, look at the vile charter of Hamas.