[jmeagan]

*****That is NOT what he said. He said specifically that Iran had no Army, Navy or Air Force. He made no comparisons or analysis of force capabilities. He merely stated they had none.

You can’t spin out of it that easy.*****

Heck, every country in the world has a “army”, in that they have people in uniform. Canada and Mexico have an “army” and an “air force”, but we are not worried that they will attack us.

You folks are just nit picking because he didn’t put in a qualifier like “virtually no army.”

[Heatseeker]

I confess I had not paid sufficient attention to Ron Paul until the MTP interview; assuming he was simply a very fervent libertarian or strict-constitutionalist.

Wow! His performance there was a bizarre excursion into the political outfield. Poor RP hasn't just gone off into deep left, he's crashed through the fence and is into some sort of weird philosophical Bermuda triangle between naivete, insanity and comedy. He's John Anderson on crack, or Ross Perot on acid, I can't tell which. Whoever controls Pat Paulsen's estate should definitely sue, since he seems to have appropriated Paulsen's entire shtick while mixing in a bit of Jefferson Davis, Huey Long and Screaming Lord Sutch.

But I'll give him one thing - he was certainly entertaining, at least in a car-wreck-that-you-hate-yourself-for-watching-but-can't-look-away sort of fashion. And he gets some things right, in the way stopped clocks (or cuckoo clocks with half their springs hanging out) tell the right time twice a day.

I look forward to being further entertained, though at this point I think the only way he can top himself is to declare himself Lyndon LaRouche's lovechild and restart that talk about the Queen of England being the world's #1 drug trafficker.