[cripplecreek]

I like Ron Paul but I think he's seriously wrong on the war in Iraq.

[Wormwood]

Ron Paul is living proof that you can be a principled conservative and still disagree with the Administration's policies.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

The government of Iraq is guilty of willfully and knowingly harboring self-confessed, and at least one Convicted, Anti-American Islamic Terrorists in their Ruling Majority Coalition.

"So long as training camps operate, so long as nations harbor terrorists, freedom is at risk. And America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it." -- President George W. Bush, 2002 State of the Union

Ron Paul is Right to demand that we end all Military and Financial support to Governments that knowingly and willfully harbor self-confessed and convisted International Terrorists. And he is the ONLY Republican Candidate standing consistently for this principle.

Best, OP

[George W. Bush]

I like Ron Paul but I think he's seriously wrong on the war in Iraq.

I think you should consider that our earliest military engagements were with the Muslims. There has been throughout our history a disconnect from the reality of Islam and its evil influence.

Ron Paul has a real point. Our 'government' in Iraq is fundamentally just our favored group of terrorists who are supposedly fighting the bad terrorists. And Ron Paul, unlike Bush and Cheney and all of the neo-cons, has seen real combat as a surgeon and places a certain value on the lives of our soldiers. If he is correct (and there is strong reason to believe he is), then the failed neocon fantasy of a liberal democratic Iraq was a neo-con fantasy over which we have squandered 3000 of our troops and damaged our relations with many other countries including some of our most loyal allies, particularly in the Anglosphere.

It's about tribalism and ancient vendettas and a degrading barracks religion (sometimes called by W. a Religion Of Peace). But Ron Paul is historically accurate and his assessment of our current puppet regime in Iraq is consistent with all we know of these countries and the despots and mullahs who persecute their populations.

Ron Paul is hardly alone in this. It is why Bush Senior and James Baker and Kissinger and Eagleburger and many other foreign policy experts supported ejecting Saddam from Kuwait from Saddam but wisely avoided deposing him. Those cooler heads, unlike the neo-con ideologues now in power, knew that there were no 'good guys' in Islam, knew that the religion and the culture it spawns is an eternal enemy of liberty and decency. And Saddam, evil as he was, contained the inherent tendency toward civil war between the three major factions there. He was evil but he did keep the peace. Now we have the tiger by the tail and are rightly afraid to let go of it.