Among other things, in July 2011 Paul hadn't made all of his idiotic statements about giving Iraq the bomb, and we didn't know that he thought we should never have gotten involved in WWII, and he hadn't admitted yet that he HAD written those newsletters (except that there are "8 or 10 sentences" that somebody else wrote that are a problem).
There were some informed nuts in the military, apparently. But I have more respect for our military than to think they would support Paul. Don't you?