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I appreciate the fact that you channel him, but the following interview excerpt is clear to me. He would withdraw from both Iraq and Afghanistan immediately, pursue Osama (only, not al Quaida) with small, specialized units. The Arab League would handle Iraq. Why shouldn't I believe what he says?

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JW: Regarding foreign policy and the war in Iraq, what would you do differently than what's being done now?

RP: I would bring our troops home, I would end the war. I would do it rather quickly.
     Anybody who would say, "This would be chaotic," I would say chaos was caused by the fact that we went in there and we've been in for reasons that weren't right or true. It was going in that caused all of the problems.
     Immediately we could save a lot of money and save a lot of lives. Those individuals, including the Arab League, would have to settle those problems.
     I think the Arab League would step in and fill the vacuum.

JW: What about Afghanistan? Would you continue the operations there?

RP: No, I would come home, unless there was specific knowledge of where Osama bin Laden was. Then I send out just a small team of people to take care of him.
I would not maintain the occupation of Afghanistan. That was mainly motivated by oil pipelines and some other things that are never discussed

I appreciate the fact that you channel him, but the following interview excerpt is clear to me.

I'm not familiar with the isil.org site.

You might notice that it's dated "– 04-24-06 –". So something is obviously wrong. RP wasn't running for president in April 2006, he was running for re-election to Congress. We first heard rumors about a presidential run in early 2007, February as I recall.

A small hit just on leadership, as Reagan did with Qaddafi, is doable too. But RP is mostly focused on an Iraq withdrawal. However, he has spoken of a general plan to bring home all the troops overseas. That means Germany, Korea, etc.

Good. It's long overdue. Time for them to defend themselves. Part of the problems we have in leading the West when its necessary is that they just hang back and make trouble for us until we just go do the job for them. I'm tired of that. And of them backbiting us all the time for having protected them and spent the money to field a real superpower military.