Really, Ron...STFU.
notwithstanding this comment or whatever context (or lack thereof) spawned it, Iran is cruising for a bruising. And on The One’s watch, too. Talk about yer perfect storm...
A better question would be, as an American, do you want nuclear weapons
“If I Were an Iranian, I’d Want a Nuclear Weapon”
And if I were President, I would give them a few.
It's just as revelant now.
Gee Paul, the Germans would have liked one about 70 years ago too...
So as an Iranian he’d want nukes but as an American he doesn’t..? That is definitely leftist reasoning.
..and if he were an American, he would not want Iran to have them.
Great comments here! This guy is a whack job.
If he were a conservative, or even a republican for that matter, he wouldn’t be such a mountebank. As is, his foreign policy is what anarchist, and America haters drool over.
If you were a Paultard I would want to slap you (for your idiocy).
When did FreeRepublic become overrun with neo-cons? Why should I care as an American that Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon to the point that I want to sacrifice my sons and daughters to attack a nation on the other side of the world? With whose money are we paying for this? With whose blood? The Saudi’s, Egyptians, and Israelis might actually find some common ground over a common enemy and go to war with Iran themselves. Why do we as American’s have this knee-jerk reaction to war? Are we so deeply in the grasp of fascism in this country that we can no longer see liberty and the value of independence?
What has happened to this message board? What has happened to constitutional conservatism and limited government?
There are three candidates remaining in this race who believe in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Those candidates are Michele Bachmann (my candidate), Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul. The other candidates are people of the government, by the government, and for the government. I am not voting for Ron Paul but I will not attack him either. I disagree with his bottom line on foreign policy (which is interpreted by the mainstream media as a racist agenda) but I agree with him in principle (which is that America needs to be isolationist for a time until we get our economic house in order).
The attacks on Paul have degraded into that leftist mechanism to silence those who oppose them — the label of “racist”. Lately we are hearing Paul labeled with the standard leftist smear of “dumb”. Paul is man who believes that the federal government has powers that it should not have but should belong exclusively to the states and private sector to retain that power. The federal government grows in power and so it grows in cost and expands its influence. Ron Paul believes in limited government and would abolish entire federal departments to diminish the size and cost of government. The Federal Reserve needs to be abolished and the collusion between big-government neo-cons, big government leftists, big-banking, and big-corporation needs to be broken. Only a Tea Party majority in the House and Senate in combination with a constitutional limited-government conservative in the White House would break that fascist collusion.
Right now, that fascist big-government-corporate-banking mechanism is why Romney and Gingrich are promoted by the mainstream media including FOX News and why Bachmann, Santorum, and Paul are marginalized. As such, I will look beyond my disagreements with Dr. Paul to the bigger picture. Although I am fully supporting Michele Bachmann, I will defend Ron Paul.
“it’s time to change that and bring our military home to protect this country.”
Sometimes it’s necessary to send our military to foreign lands to protect our interests at home. Thomas Jefferson understood that.
Ron Paul is not a libertarian. He’s touting some bastardized version of libertarianism that includes free pot and prostitutes. What he’s promoting is the libertine philosophy.
Ron Paul does not understand private property and the duty of a country to protect that private property. That protection may include traveling to a foreign country and killing the enemy who attacked your private property.
I’ll repeat it again: Ron Paul is not a libertarian. Ron paul’s primary interest is Ron Paul.
Ron Paul needs to stop thinking like an Iranian and start thinking more like the American he claims to be.
Absolutely bizarre.
If I was a fish, I’d live under water.
Anyone that supports this moron, is too stupid to know they’re stupid.
Any competent Presidential candidate will get some staff out and talk to some Persians who used to live in Iran, but lost everything they had when the Revolution hit. (or at least can no longer control their private property which the mullahs have reorganized, but they still must pay taxes upon...)
There are many Americans, first generation, who left Iran when the Shah fell, who have explicit first hand knowledge, not only of past Iran, but current Iran politics.
They don’t want In to have nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
It’s as though we have an American Hitler for POTUS and an American Chamberlain seeking the office.
