[ikka]

Of course, left unsaid is that Iraq is now by definition and by explicit wording in its new Constitution - an Islamic Republic - and no, Americans cannot own property in Iraq.

Why the creation or the defense of an Islamic Republic is worth even iota of military assistance, much less even one soldier's life, is a question those who criticize Ron Paul don't seem to want to answer.

[crazyshrink]

Why the creation or the defense of an Islamic Republic is worth even iota of military assistance, much less even one soldier’s life, is a question those who criticize Ron Paul don’t seem to want to answer.
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Or could it be that Paulista don’t want to hear the answer?

[theothercheek]

Just because Ron Paul is an idiot, doesn’t mean Bush isn’t one too. We have an Islamic republic in Afghanistan, too, not just Iraq. And he’s taking the side of the Turks - even though their usefulness to us ended when the Berlin Wall came down, and have complicated our effort in Iraq - against Christian Armenians. Every chance he gets, Bush sides with illegals against Americans, and with Moslems against Christian. I’m done with him.

[farmer18th]

Why the creation or the defense of an Islamic Republic...

Exactly, and it refutes Paul's claims about neo-colonialism. What we really need--if we really want to fight an international war on terror--is a neocolonial approach--bring in the missionaries and the homestead act in Iraq. Destroy their temples, just like Cortez destroyed the temples of the blood-thirsty Aztecs. Short of moral clarity (the west is superior to the east), we shouldn't be fighting abstract wars on "terror." We should be fighting wars against Islam.