[timm22]

Are all of us war veterans who are opposed to nation building police actions pussbags in your little mind, or is that a title reserved for those of us who also believe in that anachronistic document, the Constitution of the United states of America?

Thank you. I've done a year in Iraq and might be overseas again in a few months. I think Ron Paul is a good candidate and has some valid points on the war, even if I don't agree with his solution 100%. There are other people serving right now who would agree with me.

Look folks, there are veterans on both sides of this issue and people who haven't served on both sides of this issue. Most are sincere in their beliefs and motivated by what they think is best for the country. Let's focus on the merits of the argument and not take shots at each others' character.

[George W. Bush]

Look folks, there are veterans on both sides of this issue and people who haven't served on both sides of this issue. Most are sincere in their beliefs and motivated by what they think is best for the country. Let's focus on the merits of the argument and not take shots at each others' character.

Thanks for your service and for sharing your views, timm.

We support all the troops here and some of us recognize that our military does generally reflect the American population as a whole. To hear some FReepers here, you can't even get in the military without a Republican voter registration card. And that just isn't true. And some folks don't recognize that we're asking for more nation-building disasters like Kosovo and Haiti and Darfur and Somalia by continuing on this path of nation-building if Hitlery Clinton is elected president.

No more U.N.-style nation-building. Let some civilian agency go help these Third World countries, not our military. Our troops aren't trained or equipped to serve as police or as a welfare agency. They're supposed to defend us, not get mired in some backward country like Iraq when they might well be needed to defend our interests in Korea or Taiwan or elsewhere. The fact that we're so tied down in Iraq actually encourages our enemies to do something, knowing we're already spread thin.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Look folks, there are veterans on both sides of this issue and people who haven't served on both sides of this issue. Most are sincere in their beliefs and motivated by what they think is best for the country. Let's focus on the merits of the argument and not take shots at each others' character.

Thank you for your service and your excellent comments.

My support of Paul is due to his tireless commitment to limited government (federalism), low taxes, American sovereignty, border security and ending the drug war. Now I do have some reservations about his foreign policy, but to me Paul would still be better on foreign policy than all the Dem candidates and maybe even Rudy/Romney/Huckabee, because he'd fight a war without harassing law-abiding Americans with crap like the RealID Act and leaving the borders wide open.

It's a shame that the presidential candidate who adheres to the Constitution the most is trashed on the very website dedicated to defended it.