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“So, you missed his 2008 debate performances?”

Sorry, no I didn’t see that. I guess I was too busy packing moving boxes because I was laid off from my defense industry job after SecDef Gates made some bonehead decisions.

“You didn’t listen to him blame America and Americans for 9/11/01?”

I thought several different independently appointed committees came to that conclusion as well. We weren’t the targets of those wacko’s because we’re free men and they were jealous. They attacked us as a form of revenge for what they saw were injustices committed against their people by US policies.

Not that I’m sticking up for them. I think it should be open season on them. And I think the initial call to invade Afgahnistan was the correct one.

“You haven’t heard R-U-N Paul state during the 2012 campaign that he believes Iran should be allowed to complete their nuclear weapons program?”

Can you say for certain that their intent is to produce nuclear weapons?

And do we not sound like hypocrites for telling them they can’t? We have enough nukes to blow the whole world to kingdom come 3 times over. But we’re going to tell a sovereign nation they can’t build their own nukes to do the same thing? And what about Pakistan and India going nuclear? Not concerned with that? If that isn’t a nuclear war waiting to happen then what is?

“These are just the most glaring problems with R-U-N Paul. He also is a liar and hypocrite when it comes to pork.”

Please state examples of Paul being on the take and I’ll shut up about that.

Your name, SoldierDad, indicates that you are either the father of a soldier or a soldier yourself. Either way I commend the service. Thank YOU!

Information shared with me regarding Paul and his voting record in Congress indicates he has help with drafting pork laden bills, and then voted against those bills knowing full well they would pass despite his “NO” vote. Thus, he was able to “say” he voted against pork, all the while knowing the bills he helped attach pork to would bring money into his congressional district. He’s a hypocrite and a liar.

I am the father of a currently deployed (Afghanistan) infantry soldier (Army) (who also saw combat action in Iraq during 2006 - 2007). I am an uncle to three U.S. Army soldiers who also served in Iraq. I have a cousin whose son also served in Iraq at the same time as the ones noted above (yes, we had five members of our family there at the same time). My wife's brother, working as an FBI agent, was stationed in the ME and spent a good deal of time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus, my sister's husband's sister had a son in Iraq at the same time as our five were there. My uncle (mother's side) had two sons who served during the Iraq war in 1991.

My older brother was an Army Ranger during the mid 1970's into the 1980's. I served in the Air Force in the late 1970's into the early 1980's. My father served in the USAF for eight years, some of which was during Korea. My family lineage on my father's side dates back before the Revolutionary War, and we've had members of our family serve in nearly all wars (all major wars) since 1776.

Given Paul's foriegn policy positions, I cannot support him in any way, shape, or form.