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Sen. Rand Paul: Build Iron Dome Over White House, Capitol, Key Cities
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 17 Jan 2013 10:18 AM | Bill Hoffmann

Posted on 01/17/2013 8:59:46 AM PST by Olog-hai

Sen. Rand Paul says The White House, Capitol buildings, and key U.S. cities should build their own versions of Israel's Iron Dome to defend them from missile attacks, BuzzFeed reports.

“I saw presentations of the Iron Dome and it was very impressive … [I am] absolutely in favor of it,” Paul told reporters in a conference call after touring Israel and Jordan. …

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: irondome; randpaul
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1 posted on 01/17/2013 8:59:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Vladimir would have a fit.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 9:03:34 AM PST by DManA
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To: Olog-hai

“key cities”???

D.C.? NY? LA? SF? Chicago? Lexington? Owensboro? Bowling Green?


3 posted on 01/17/2013 9:03:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Iron Dome?

I don’t know, Rand, I think the bas***ds would still dig their way out.


4 posted on 01/17/2013 9:05:01 AM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Olog-hai

Good Lord! Why?

Is someone lobbing terrorist rockets into our cities, and it’s not being reported?

If he thinks this is a substitute for national defense, he’s a fool.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 9:05:01 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Olog-hai

We will build those as fast as they built the fence and put protection in our schools.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 9:06:25 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
Hmmmm... seems to complement the notion of Eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families, and establish Gun Free Zones around them
7 posted on 01/17/2013 9:08:03 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Olog-hai

better to build an Iron Dome over New York City, etc.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 9:08:03 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Chickensoup

Fantastic response.

And may suggest this principle applied to protect cities is the same reason we want the ability to protect our homes.

Or is the Iron Dome limited to ten shots each before they have to reload.


9 posted on 01/17/2013 9:08:52 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Olog-hai

I really do not care what happens to any of those people, Rand.

If you want it, you pay for it.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 9:11:52 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Olog-hai

No iron domes over DC or any “blue” city.

Loosing them would constitute the first step in a vast improvement in our state of being.

Only partially joking.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:11 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

Oops, for the anal-minded, that’s “losing,” not “loosing.”


12 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:55 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

The White House, Capitol buildings, and key U.S. cities

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That would take care of the politicians and the murder Capitols of this country, but what would protect us honest Americans?


13 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:55 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I really don’t think any of the politicreeps are innocent. Just about the time you think one of them has a brain and the interest of the people at heart they make some stupid statement like this. They’re special, they need to be protected more than the simple minded and must less valuable electorate.

obastard may be the dictator but the majority of politicians aren’t much closer to remembering their humility than he is.


14 posted on 01/17/2013 9:13:32 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Olog-hai

There are already short (Avenger) and medium range missiles protecting DC. Most of the batteries are documented on Wikimapia.

Beyond that, given that the missile threat will be ICBMs, the best defense wouldn’t be Iron Dome but rather Aegis criusers and destroyers with SM3s and the anti ballistic missile upgrades stationed off the coasts


15 posted on 01/17/2013 9:13:48 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Olog-hai

So—People who live in the city are more equal than those of us out in the sticks, Senator?


16 posted on 01/17/2013 9:17:03 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my guns.)
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To: Olog-hai

The nut didn’t fall far from the tree.


17 posted on 01/17/2013 9:19:27 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: DManA

Build it over anything but the White House and Congress.


18 posted on 01/17/2013 9:21:47 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Olog-hai
D.C. Because only elitists need be protected.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 9:28:52 AM PST by 444Flyer (We are experiencing the perfect storm.)
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To: Olog-hai

All of America EXCEPT those places!!!!!


20 posted on 01/17/2013 9:31:15 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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