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Did Ron Paul just defend al Qaeda? Presidential candidate's campaign rocked by comment at GOP debate
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 13, 2011

Posted on 09/13/2011 5:07:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul was hushed by deafening boos from a crowd of Tea Partiers at Monday's GOP Presidential debate, after suggesting America's foreign police played a role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr Paul attempted to position his argument to slash military spending, contending that occupation was the 'real motivation' behind acts of terrorism by Muslim extremists against the U.S.

But a provocative retort from presidential candidate, Pennsylvania lawmaker Rick Santorum, instead drew wide support, after he dismissed Mr Paul's comments as 'irresponsible'.

Prior to the Tea Party debate, Mr Paul, 76, had reflected on the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks in his weekly Texas Straight Talk column.

He argued that 'the attacks of 9/11 deserved a response. But the manner in which we responded has allowed radicals in the Muslim world to advance a very threatening narrative about us and our motivation in occupying their lands.'

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; commie; distributism; distributivism; moonbat; ronpaul; stuckonstupid; truther; venusproject
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1 posted on 09/13/2011 5:07:43 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

/facepalm

BOHICA! =.=


2 posted on 09/13/2011 5:10:16 AM PDT by cranked
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Nutty Ron has passed his shelf life.


3 posted on 09/13/2011 5:10:42 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I would love to hear RuPaul explain the Islamofascist attacks and murders elsewhere around the globe: Spain, London, Bali, Mumbai, etc. etc. etc.

Actually, I wouldn’t. I just wish the parasite would find another host to bleed instead of the Republican party.

I’m sick of this loon and his idiot followers.


4 posted on 09/13/2011 5:11:32 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ron Paul Krugman.


5 posted on 09/13/2011 5:12:00 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Ron Paul, on foreign policy / national security issues, is a complete kook.

To borrow a line from the Great One, "There, I've said it."

6 posted on 09/13/2011 5:12:00 AM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This loon Belongs in a rest home drinking his dinner from a sippy cup.


7 posted on 09/13/2011 5:15:45 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I don’t know why anyone is surprised by his position, he said the same thing in the 2008 debates. In Rudy G’s best moment of his campaign he took that old fool to the woodshed. Ron Paul and his surrender monkeys can kiss my ass too.


8 posted on 09/13/2011 5:20:19 AM PDT by McGruff (Why settle for second best.)
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Ron Paul is an anti-Semitic nut that makes conservatives look like idiots by association. He is not conservative, he is crazy.


9 posted on 09/13/2011 5:23:18 AM PDT by Tzfat
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Paul’s answer last night should lead to a ban from the rest of the debates. He is an anti Semite. Period. He pushed the al queda justification that “Palestine has not been treated fairly’ by the US. This is a blatant anti israili stament that now legitimate conservative would ever utter. He has no understanding of Islam. He accepts whatever anti-Israel statements made by the radicals as understandable. Sort of like excusing Hitler because he had his own justification for his actions.


10 posted on 09/13/2011 5:24:04 AM PDT by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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“Ron Paul was hushed by deafening boos from a crowd of Tea Partiers at Monday's GOP Presidential debate”

It was awesome. Finally people saying: “shut your stupid mouth Ron Paul, You are a coward and a traitor”

11 posted on 09/13/2011 5:29:03 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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umm...he’s been doing this for quite a while.

He’s a Nut


12 posted on 09/13/2011 5:29:09 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Tzfat

Don’t call Ron Paul crazy, that exonerates him of any guilt.

IMO Ron Paul’s views on Israel and the Middle East are well thought out pure EVIL!!

And as for his nutball followers, by their fruits ye shall know them.


13 posted on 09/13/2011 5:31:12 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I am no fan of Paul, but I did not see in that statement where he defended Al Queda.
14 posted on 09/13/2011 5:45:28 AM PDT by Blackandproud
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It is a good thing Dr. Paul is out of medicine...it is a shame he went into politics. Gardening is more suitable for him I think.


15 posted on 09/13/2011 5:53:46 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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If you listen to his debate comments, he basically argues Al Qaeda’s point of view for them. He said that they spelled out why they attacked us—because we built military basis on their “holy lands” and didn’t treat the Palestinians fairly.

Then he went on to say that some other country had done this to us, we’d have a right to be “annoyed.”


16 posted on 09/13/2011 5:57:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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Ron Paul is a NUT. This is just another of a long list of statements and political policies that Ron Paul has made over the years that render him a political lunatic and totally ineligible and unelectable.


17 posted on 09/13/2011 5:57:31 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’ve seen and listened to plenty of Ron Paul supporters here in Austin. This city is loaded with them.

EVERYONE of them are an anti-war kook, do not have ONE conservative ideal in their thought process and have an Obama 2012 bumper sticker right next to their Ron Paul bumper sticker.

I never thought I’d say this but I trust a Hilary supporter before I trust a Ron Paul supporter. At least the Hilary supporter is upfront about voting Democrat.


18 posted on 09/13/2011 6:04:54 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: dead
Ron Paul Krugman.

I'll take Lunatics, Before and After for a thousand, Alex.

19 posted on 09/13/2011 6:07:04 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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There are a number of things which Dr. Ron Paul talks about, which I agree with. However, I see increasingly, in EVERY debate, there are even more things that I do NOT agree with. I’m not sure where his ideas on many issues come from (some claim dementia), but I think they are less than accurate (to put it nicely).


20 posted on 09/13/2011 6:07:14 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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