“You can’t declare a war on anything except a sovereign country. He voted to authorize the president to invade Afghanistan and take out the Taliban who were harboring and supporting Bin Laden, their old ally from the days of the Soviet invasion.”
And we did declare war against Iraq and Afghanistand. We haven’t declared war against AlQaeda so your point is irrevent isn’t it?
A minor point. Ron Bin Laden did certainly vote for the use of force in Afghanistan but his speech is quite clear in that he recommended a Letter of Marque and Reprisal which is a typical dumb Ron Paul idea.
“Ron Paul still supports the effort in Afghanistan and wants to go into the tribal areas of Pakistan to finish off Bin Laden and his top leadership who are almost certainly there.”
Does Ron Paul believe we should declare war on Pakistan prior to our invastion? Or, would he support an authorization of force? Or, would he still recommend Letters of Marque and Reprisal?
“Too bad they didn’t listen to Ron Paul before they made such a complete disaster out of Iraq and got 4000 of our noble troops killed,...”
If we had listened to Ron Paul, we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq or Afghanistan, we would have issued Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
Ron Paul still supports the effort in Afghanistan and wants to go into the tribal areas of Pakistan to finish off Bin Laden and his top leadership who are almost certainly there.