[Ultra Sonic 007]

Hunter's fiscal conservatism IS a problem. It's his only negative thus far. His support for tax cuts helps, fortunately.

As for Ron Paul's opposition to the war, I imagine it's on the grounds that it's not actually being fought like a war?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Hunter's fiscal conservatism IS a problem. It's his only negative thus far. His support for tax cuts helps, fortunately. As for Ron Paul's opposition to the war, I imagine it's on the grounds that it's not actually being fought like a war?

Well, yes and no. Ron Paul was adamantly opposed to invading Iraq without a Congressional Declaration of War, and does not believe that the United States should ever enter into military action for the purpose of enforcing UN Resolutions (Ron Paul believes that we should pull out of the UN altogether -- "get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US" is an old saying of his). On the other hand, he did personally introduce a Congressional Declaration of War on Iraq, stating that if we were going to invade Iraq it should be done right, by the Constitution.

However, now that Saddam and his sons have been killed, the stated purposes of the President's 2003 Ultimatum, which was specifically directed and worded against the Person of Saddam Hussein and his sons, have been fully and victoriously acheived. At this point, Ron Paul does not believe that US Armed Forces should continue to be deployed to Iraq for the purposes of "nation building" -- especially given that the Iraqi people have shown their "gratitude" by electing a Parliament dominated by Shi'ite Anti-American Terrorists:

The ruling government of Iraq is dominated by the psychopathic gang of murderers known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Islamic Al Dawa Party, who are the very same Islamic Terrorist Parties which bombed the US & French Embassies in Kuwait, and murdered 241 United States Marines in Beirut in 1983. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of the Al Dawa Party, was the Bureau Chief of the Al Dawa Party's terrorist "Jihad Office" in Damascus in the 1980s and was thus heavily responsible for Al Dawa operations in Beirut, while parliament member Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of his ruling coalition is one of the "Kuwait 17", still under a Kuwaiti death sentence (in absentia) for his direct involvement in the vicious attack on the US Embassy in Kuwait! Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate calling for an immediate END to all Military and Financial support for the criminal Islamic Terrorist thug-regime of Iraq.

According to the stated principles of the 2002 State of the Union Address, the Federal Government must not lend any support whatsoever to Nations which "harbor terrorists".

Given that Saddam and his sons are dead, the stated purposes of the 2003 Presidential Ultimatum have been acheived, and the Iraqi People have elected to Power the self-confessed and even judicially convicted Terrorists of the Islamic Al Dawa Party, Ron Paul believes that the Government of Iraq does not merit the further spending of hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American Lives in its continued support.