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Ron Paul Condemns Killing of al Qaeda’s Awlaki
WashingtonWire blog on WSJ ^ | September 30, 2011, 11:00 AM ET | Elizabeth Williamson

Posted on 09/30/2011 10:12:21 AM PDT by ¢ommon ¢ents

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.–Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul condemned the U.S.-backed killing of al Qaeda figure and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.


Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul greets guests at a house party Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

“Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,” Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. “If the American people accept this blindly and casually…I think that’s sad.”

Mr. Awlaki, accused by the U.S. of planning al Qaeda attacks on U.S. citizens and recruiting terrorists, has been a longtime target of the U.S.

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TOPICS: Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; obama; ronpaul; texas
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I'm not sure I agree with him on this. When I see his comments on foreign policy and terrorism, I understand why his detractors call him "Wrong Paul."

Of course, maybe we should have captured this guy, sent hi to club Gitmo and found out what he was planning. Using a drone airstrike doesn't do much for intelligence gathering.

1 posted on 09/30/2011 10:12:25 AM PDT by ¢ommon ¢ents
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

There’s a straight jacket somewhere waiting for that nut.


2 posted on 09/30/2011 10:16:07 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

“Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,”

...always good to wait until after his dirty bombs or whatever are detonated. Count the casualties THEN go after him and charge him for each individual casualty. ~sarc


3 posted on 09/30/2011 10:16:12 AM PDT by albie
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Idiot should be asked what he would have suggested. Send some troops into harms way to read him Miranda?

Ron Paul is basically a leftist without the gun grabbing.


4 posted on 09/30/2011 10:16:23 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Nobel Peace Prize winnner Obama okay’s killing of perhaps innocent man.

Ron Paul


5 posted on 09/30/2011 10:16:59 AM PDT by sappy
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents
"Using a drone airstrike doesn't do much for intelligence gathering."

oops ... equipment malfunction ... sorry, chief.

6 posted on 09/30/2011 10:17:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Proud2BeRight

You’re right, and it can’t be soon enough.


7 posted on 09/30/2011 10:19:03 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. " Edmund Burke)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Ron sounds like one of those liberals who believe that criminals should be given a “fair” shot at committing their crimes, in this case, kill a bunch of Americans, before anything is done to stop them. It’s an aCLU thing. I believe just the opposite. Get them before they get you. It’s a military thing.


8 posted on 09/30/2011 10:19:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Too much "education" can destroy your brain.)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

I guess had he been killed at the behest of a letter of Marque it would have been more acceptable?


9 posted on 09/30/2011 10:20:35 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Every al Qaeda person should be terminated, IMHO.


10 posted on 09/30/2011 10:21:21 AM PDT by ransacked
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"Ron Paul is condemning the Obama administration for killing an American born al-Qaida operative without a trial."

Yes killing terrorists with out a trial is a bad thing. -eyeroll- This is why he is unfit to serve.

11 posted on 09/30/2011 10:21:51 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

[ Ron Paul is basically a leftist without the gun grabbing. ]

No, he is a Libertine who is living in a land of theoreticals far far isolated from the reality of reality.

Idealy if the world was “perfect” Ron Paul’s policies would work quite nicely, but the world is far from perfect.


12 posted on 09/30/2011 10:23:19 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents
R. Paul's a nut pure and simple.

Even if we could afford the human capital risked in capturing him, we no longer have the latitude to use the tools necessary to tap into the available intelligence from this subject (in English, read no torture or waterboarding; he wouldn't have told us a damned thing).
Besides, we would have been stuck with the idiot forever. The ACLU would have devoted all its vast resources to protect his civil rights.
After all, he was an American citizen as the media have told us...and TOLD US...and TOLD US!

13 posted on 09/30/2011 10:26:06 AM PDT by stormhill
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I think he is our Jimmy Carter. This guy is a total Whack job. Unstable, crazy, mentally ill, off the deep end, nuts, etc. I just can't understand how any of you support this idiot. He has a few good constitutional positions, but his crazy ideas just make him unacceptable. He makes Dennis Kucinich look sane.
14 posted on 09/30/2011 10:26:06 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

I hope he died slowly and in great pain!


15 posted on 09/30/2011 10:28:02 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: GraceG

How is that different from a leftist.


16 posted on 09/30/2011 10:28:50 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

no bump.


17 posted on 09/30/2011 10:29:19 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

Paul is incredibly wrong


18 posted on 09/30/2011 10:34:52 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: ¢ommon ¢ents

How can you be ‘not sure’? Paul is wrong - period.


19 posted on 09/30/2011 10:41:03 AM PDT by svcw (Those who are easily shocked... should be shocked more often. - Mae West)
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To: therightliveswithus

You either adhere to the Constitution or you don’t. Make your choice.

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”


20 posted on 09/30/2011 10:43:33 AM PDT by fretzer
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