Blaming America for Al Qaida attacks is as bad or worse.
I remember him advocating (and voting for) crushing the Taliban gov't that allowed terrorist attacks to be planned and launched from Afghanistan.
Yes, but you left something out, didn't you? Or maybe, like so many of his supporters, you never even considered it.
Ron Paul has been saying for years that the authorization that allowed us to go into Iraq was unconstitutional, but in 2001 he voted for an authorization that had every single flaw he's cited as unconstitutional or was even worse. Heck, the 2001 authorization didn't even mention Al Qaida or Afghanistan, but he voted for it.
This guy's just a Beltway gameplayer. He calls other GOP members enemies of the Constitution because they voted for OIF, but when the chips were down he voted the same way to save his butt. If he had voted against the authorization, even his district wouldn't have tolerated it.
Ron Paul is a poser. When you RP supporters are mystified as to why he doesn't have more support on FR, that's your answer...we can smell the BS. He's just Newt Gingrich with libertarian flavor, another beltway insider who runs to the head of the movement to declare himself the only viable leader.
I think he knows that muzzies are like primitive, stupid and dangerous animals - the ones not bothering you, you leave alone.
Which is why he thinks it's no big deal if a "primitive, stupid and dangerous animal" like Ahmadinejad has a nuclear arsenal at his disposal. Yeah, he really understands radical Islam.
Pointing out that US interference into other nation's affairs can motivate them to strike at the US is not the same as blaming us for the attack, it's just stating fact.
Ron Paul is a poser. When you RP supporters are mystified as to why he doesn't have more support on FR, that's your answer...
He doesn't have a lot of support here because most freepers are big-gov't republicans - you know, people who think massive, all-intrusive fedgov is good as long as the guys running things have an (R) next to their names.
A lot of y'all know that if you admit that Iraq & the endless occupation of Afghanistan were mistakes, then you admit that hundreds of thousands of unecessary deaths and trillions of dollars in wasted capital is your fault.
Also, many (most? all?) of you neocon war-lovers are parasites, sucking up the tax-dollars of productive workers like me. The thought of a principled reformer like Ron Paul gaining power and cutting you off from the gov't cheese scares the crap out of you.
Which is why he thinks it's no big deal if a "primitive, stupid and dangerous animal" like Ahmadinejad has a nuclear arsenal at his disposal.
Maybe he thinks that...
a. he doesn't have one.
b. if he gets one, and there's a credible threat that he'll use it, the Israelis will deal with the threat long before it threatens the US.
The world's full of potential threats, my FRiend. Cower under your bed in fear of them if you must, but otherwise just sit back & let the adults deal with those threats, if they ever become actual problems.