Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul greets guests at a house party Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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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Not applicable. Like a pirate, he at war with all of civilized mankind, and may be killed out of hand by anyone who can reach him.
BS. He was a US citizen.
Good grief, go away Ron Paul. Get out of the Republican party and go run as the loopy libertarian you are. Enough already, Paul needs to just GO away and take his conspiracy nut truther brigades with him.
And... everybody now knows he won't in the future.
Actually, it's an idiotic argument. Do our troops in wartime EVER know whether the specific enemy soldier they're targeting has killed anyone? No. Leave it to Wrong Paul to side with the ACLU.
Had Awlaki been captured and sent to GITMO, he'd have become a cause celebre... another Mumia. There's enough on him to warrant the kill. Score one for the good guys.
He was filth... and he's now dead. Get over it, Wrong.
He is one huge embarrassment to the Republican Party. Good grief, I wish he would just go away.
Exactly. There are some folks here who are opposed to the tyranny of the left but are quite comfortable imposing their own forms of tyranny.
I heard some pundit recently liken Wrong Paul to an annoying, loud guy in a bar. You can’t get far enough away from him and he just keeps blathering on.
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**** ron paul.
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...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...
The fool was killed in the battlefield, period.
Don't want to die? Don't go up against America
Si were the Rosenbergs!
Well... we can just say we attacked the other members of his convoy and Awlaki was at the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Collateral damage... it’s not like we’re talking about a human.
Si = So
I think we arguing about just how bloody insane Ron Paul and his Libertines are.
Read the entire amendment.
“... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
You are sounding just like a lefty hoplophobe picking apart the Second Amendment.
I used to say “Ron Paul is a NUT!” But this latest statement proves “Ron Paul is a raving lunatic!”
The science on that is settled
In a hot pursuit situation, due process of law mostly involves making sure you don’t miss
Right Ron. And that is why we never actually kill anybody on the battlefield. I mean how do we know it that guy I am about to shoot has ever killed anybody. Heck, he may have been a really lousy shot and never hit anyone. So we always just take prisoners and never really kill anyone.
Ron Paul is an idiot.
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