I am sorry folks. Nothing out of context there. This was not clumsy. He said what he said, and it is just, plain wrong.
Make all the arguments about his possession or lack of conservative credentials, but this is not the battleground you should choose to fight on.
Seems to me you are limiting your response to the situation in Iraq, if you are then you are wrong. Ron Paul said what he said, but it was in reference to our Foriegn Policy in the Mideast for the past several decades.
Apparently you have chose to ignore this detail and historical fact. But keep trying to justify this illegal war with nonsense and twisting of words.