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Originally posted by maddog99
Looks like Politico is already reporting on the ad:
Ron Paul campaign video torches Newt Gingrich
I'm very curious to see if any of the MSM outlets start reporting on it also. I'm waiting to hear Newt's rebuttal if any!
So, what you're saying is every time Newt or any other politician gets caught flip-flopping or being part of the fraud and abuse that's cost us, the taxpaying Americans billions of dollars, we should believe their excuses?
I guess I should also believe that Newt never lead the campaign against Clinton to oust him for inappropriate behavior while he was cheating on his wife? Or, the fact that he dumped her while she was in her hospital bed? Now that would be smear tactics.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by maddog99
Paul - So far off on national security that he scares 70%
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by maddog99
Paul - So far off on national security that he scares 70%
Two wrongs make a right??
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Ha, rofl. Ronnie comes out swinging. And it's about credibility, not about some trite personal issue. Too bad Newt has none, while Ron has it in spades. A bit of a twist from the Paul campaign, and probably with about as much teeth as you will ever see. Not the usual, but maybe his campaign does need a little more bite to it like this.
Originally posted by maddog99
Paul - So far off on national security that he scares 70%
So, listening to his security advisors then going to Congress for approval on declaration of war is scary?
I think the POTUS having the power to wage war wherever and whenever he sees fit scares the hell out of me and anyone who can realize this is turning into a military dictatorship.
Do you realize RP gets more donations from your brothers and sisters in the armed forces than any other candidate...combined? Yea, they're scared as hell too!
Originally posted by seabag
Originally posted by maddog99
Paul - So far off on national security that he scares 70%
So, listening to his security advisors then going to Congress for approval on declaration of war is scary?
I think the POTUS having the power to wage war wherever and whenever he sees fit scares the hell out of me and anyone who can realize this is turning into a military dictatorship.
Do you realize RP gets more donations from your brothers and sisters in the armed forces than any other candidate...combined? Yea, they're scared as hell too!
No, what's scary is his willingness to allow the terrorist nation of Iran to become a nuclear power and his desire to disengage from the world. Also his desire to give terrorists constitutional rights and civilian trials.
As far as his military support, that's about 1% of the population. It's gonna take more than that.
Having been a PATRIOT missile defense systems operator and someone whose trained exclusively against Iran for 2 years, I want to reiterate the most important facts in regards to Iran's ACTUAL capabilities:
1) They have absolutely no missile that can reach America. None. It is a complete non-issue.
2) Their missile arsenal predominately consists of Shahab-1 through Shahab-5 missiles, Scud-B and Scud-C. Most of these are IRBMs (Intermediate Range) and none are ICBMs (Inter-Continental).
3) We have sold PATRIOT missile defense systems to Taiwan, Egypt, Germany, South Korea, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
4) In order for Iran to launch any nuclear payload at Israel, they would have to first defeat the missile defense systems in Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, and Israel. Just look at line of sight from Iran to Israel and you'll see it's a foolish argument. Since there is no way for Iran to defeat these systems, their only option would be to overwhelm them. In order to do that, they'd likely have to launch their entire arsenal of missiles, which is essentially impossible due to the amount of logistics that would involve, without clearly setting of early warning WORLDWIDE.
5) We have great early warning systems that would allow us to send in our Air Force to take out most launch locations, prior to launch. Further, any missiles that do launch would then immediately identify launch locations we miss, so it is unlikely they could fire more than one volly from each location. This means that logistically, they not only have to beat our early warning systems, but they'd also have to launch from multiple thousands of locations.
6) Every nuclear payload launched from Iran has a 9/10 probability of being shot down over their own country and would cause widespread nuclear fallout for IRAN itself.
Ultimately, the conclusion is that it's a complete non-issue, unless Iran wants to destroy itself with no guarantee of a mutual-assured destruction of Israel. It would be complete suicide with no achievement.
Originally posted by eLPresidente
Originally posted by seabag
Originally posted by maddog99
Paul - So far off on national security that he scares 70%
So, listening to his security advisors then going to Congress for approval on declaration of war is scary?
I think the POTUS having the power to wage war wherever and whenever he sees fit scares the hell out of me and anyone who can realize this is turning into a military dictatorship.
Do you realize RP gets more donations from your brothers and sisters in the armed forces than any other candidate...combined? Yea, they're scared as hell too!
No, what's scary is his willingness to allow the terrorist nation of Iran to become a nuclear power and his desire to disengage from the world. Also his desire to give terrorists constitutional rights and civilian trials.
As far as his military support, that's about 1% of the population. It's gonna take more than that.
First of all, Article 3 of the Constitution states no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of 2 witnesses to the same overt act or the confession in open court, the supposed 'panel' that determined Al Awlaki could be killed were lawyers, only two of them. Should lawyers be able to determine who is and isn't a terrorist? Was the second isolated drone bombing that killed his 16 year old son, justified? was it again determined by a panel of two lawyers that weren't witnesses?
It isn't the fact that Ron Paul wants to let terrorists live, he doesn't want to set a precedence for Americans to be randomly determined as terrorists, assassinated or jailed for the rest of their lives with no due process. Hell, just in these last couple of days, the US Senate is determining if people that have 7 days worth of food storage and weather proof guns can be deemed terrorists. Suddenly, anybody that is a survivalist could be targeted as a terrorist and assassinated, you REALLY want that precedence to be set? And you're a member of the Oath Keepers? wow...
On Iran:
I have a former military friend that explains Iran very simply:
Having been a PATRIOT missile defense systems operator and someone whose trained exclusively against Iran for 2 years, I want to reiterate the most important facts in regards to Iran's ACTUAL capabilities:
1) They have absolutely no missile that can reach America. None. It is a complete non-issue.
2) Their missile arsenal predominately consists of Shahab-1 through Shahab-5 missiles, Scud-B and Scud-C. Most of these are IRBMs (Intermediate Range) and none are ICBMs (Inter-Continental).
3) We have sold PATRIOT missile defense systems to Taiwan, Egypt, Germany, South Korea, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
4) In order for Iran to launch any nuclear payload at Israel, they would have to first defeat the missile defense systems in Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, and Israel. Just look at line of sight from Iran to Israel and you'll see it's a foolish argument. Since there is no way for Iran to defeat these systems, their only option would be to overwhelm them. In order to do that, they'd likely have to launch their entire arsenal of missiles, which is essentially impossible due to the amount of logistics that would involve, without clearly setting of early warning WORLDWIDE.
5) We have great early warning systems that would allow us to send in our Air Force to take out most launch locations, prior to launch. Further, any missiles that do launch would then immediately identify launch locations we miss, so it is unlikely they could fire more than one volly from each location. This means that logistically, they not only have to beat our early warning systems, but they'd also have to launch from multiple thousands of locations.
6) Every nuclear payload launched from Iran has a 9/10 probability of being shot down over their own country and would cause widespread nuclear fallout for IRAN itself.
Ultimately, the conclusion is that it's a complete non-issue, unless Iran wants to destroy itself with no guarantee of a mutual-assured destruction of Israel. It would be complete suicide with no achievement.
And what do you deem disengaging from the world? you mean pulling troops and cutting military spending so we can wrap up this $15 trillion debt crisis? Is free market trade and open cultural exchange disengaging from the rest of the world? Where do you get your information from, soldier?
edit on 1-12-2011 by eLPresidente because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DaRAGE
Thats good work Ron Paul. It shows why not to vote for Gringt Newt. But he needs to say why vote for Ron Paul.