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Yes it is true. You are talking about laws he has voted for, I am talking about the things he is saying, right now. Today. Every day. While running for President.
Originally posted by seabag
Not to beat a dead horse, and I won't discuss it further, but in your video he was asked about abortion in the case of rape or incest. In his personal case it was about the life of the mother. The life of the mother should legally take priority over the unborn child if the mother so chooses. So this didn't further your argument.
This conversation about Ron Paul and Rick Santorum really is pointless anyway because, as we saw again at last nights debate, this race is between Newt and Romney. Santorum and Paul got about 20 minutes of air time combined (if that) in a 2 hour debate and neither has a snowball's chance of winning.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by eLPresidente
Oh stop, you've been debunked on Iran before, and it was by me too.
I've been debunked by you on Iran?? Not hardly. At a certain point it just got ridiculous to keep repeating myself. Nothing I've said about Iran was wrong. My thread is still there. Go read it again.
After I was done with you, you had absolutely NOTHING to say about Iran and their 'supposed' danger to Israel and America.
That's your recollection?
I would tell you to stop drinking the kool-aid but I understand that GMO high fructose corn syrup can be damn addicting.
I'm not the kool-aid drinker in this conversation. I know I'm right about RP's dangerous foreign policy and I've proven it.
RP Debunked
Originally posted by seabag
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.
Originally posted by eLPresidente
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?
Well it should further my argument since it was YOU who claimed that Rick Santorum is FOR abortion in cases of rape and Incest and in that video he clearly says he is NOT in favor of abortion in cases of rape and incest.
Yes in his personal case it was about the life of the mother.. and yet he openly states that doctors who perform abortions, for ANY reason, should be criminally charged.
I am happy your crystal ball works. Mine broke many many years ago. That being said, I dont think you can call it a 2 man race when we are only 3 primaries in, which all saw a different winner, and we are still a year away from voting.
Here’s CNN quoting Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency:
“Commander of the Navy of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran broke the news about the plans for the presence of this force in the Atlantic Ocean and said that the same way that the world arrogant power is present near our marine borders, we, with the help of our sailors who follow the concept of the supreme jurisprudence, shall also establish a powerful presence near the marine borders of the United States,” the story said. The reference to the “world arrogant power” was presumably intended to refer to the United States.
2011
The recent alleged conspiracy by Iran's Qods Force to commit a terrorist attack in the heart of Washington, D.C., appears to shatter the conventional wisdom that Tehran and its dangerous proxies would never risk such a provocation on U.S. soil. It has also called attention to recruiting, training, fund-raising and planning efforts by Hezbollah and other Iranian operatives in Latin America, abetted by anti-U.S. regimes in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Cuba. Some U.S. officials have sought to minimize these claims. Are they simply being cautious; are they downplaying Iran’s culpability to preserve the engagement option; or are they uninformed?
Ambassador Noriega presented documents and photographs that described the economic relations between Iran and Venezuela, the appearance of uranium mining in Venezuela and Ecuador and ties between Hezbollah and Latin American leaders.
Originally posted by seabag
If I said that then I miss-spoke…I stand corrected!
It makes no sense to criminally charge a doctor who performs a LEGAL abortion. You cannot be charged for anything unless you've broken a law. I don’t know what to tell you. You would hate Santorum regardless his view on abortion!
Yes, everyone has won a primary except who? That’s right…your boy! And he will be dead last AGAIN on Jan 31 in Florida.
I say it’s a two-man race because it’s becoming obvious. It takes money to continue with a campaign. When you fail to win Primaries your money dries up. I predict RP and Santorum will officially drop @ March (if not sooner).
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by eLPresidente
I'd just like Iran not to have nukes. That's all...no killing required (hopefully).
Please show us this 100% proof that they are building nukes...
And again, its been said many times. SO WHAT IF THEY HAVE..
Anything i have found shows they are enriching to 20% for medical isotopes not the 90% needed for a bomb....
"what about a dirty bomb"..... whats stoping any other country with a nuclear program doing this?
The USA have been using depleted uranium in there weapons in this last wars... causing defects in children etc.. but once it becomes a possibility that something like this could be used against Israel we must kill kill kil, flex our muscles, police the world or spread "democracy".
Voting for anyone but paul will end up with more killing, without doubt. You ask for no killing. Its a no-brainer...
Again in 2011, the GAO could not "render an opinion on the 2011 consolidated financial statements of the federal government", with a major obstacle again being "serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD) that made its financial statements unauditable".[18]
Exact figures very by source, but are close to each other, so I'll deal in round numbers. To come up with 2.3 trillion dollars of military spending, you have to add up all the defense budgets from about 1991 to 2001. For all those years, the Pentagon spent hundreds of billions and didn't get a single receipt, didn't account for a single dime? Not possible, and no one's claiming that it happened. The missing money was part of some budget, but it's a number bigger than the defense budgets we're to believe it's a "part" of, so it was a part of some OTHER budget, one we don't know about.
Translation - Show me 100% proof Iran is building nukes and then I will tell you it doesn't matter.
Medical isotopes underground?
The UN atomic agency said Monday that Iran is now enriching uranium at a new site in a hard-to-bomb mountain bunker
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). That works on people who don't consider martyrdom the highest honor.
There you go with the typical defence - The US does it so why can't Iran. Blah..Blah..Blah
I'm beginning to think that RP has replaced Obama as the Messiah! Yeah, RP is the only one to fix all the problems in the world and save us from ourselves.
RP would reduce our ability to respond by closing our overseas bases and waiting until the war is on our shore before reacting. If RP is our only hope then prepare for devastation because he has NO chance of becoming POTUS.