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Post by japflapper on Sept 30, 2011 12:07:55 GMT -5
MANCHESTER NH -- Ron Paul aggressively criticized President Obama today for al-Awlaki's death.
"No I don't think that's a good way to deal with our problems," Paul said in a media avail after his remarks at the Politics + Eggs event here. "He was born here, Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.
"I think what would people ... have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn't assassinate him, who certainly he had done it. Went and put through the courts then executed him. To start assassinating American citizens without charges, we should think very seriously about this."
Does he feel the same about Bin Laden? "
Not exactly. Because he was involved in 9/11 and I voted for authority to go after those individuals responsible for 9/11. Al-Awlaki nobody ever suggested that he was participant in 9/11."
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Post by haus on Oct 1, 2011 7:48:44 GMT -5
Although he is not going to win the presidency I like Ron Paul. Rather than crazy I would call him very intelligent. There was a guy this week that was going to fly C4 into the pentagon with a remote airplane. We didn't knock on his door and blow him away when he answered. Al-Awlaki was not killed in the US however so he may have just been in the wrong shanty at the wrong time or maybe was assisinated, I don't know. But if we are assasinating people, then why didn't we just shoot Sadaam? How about the guy in Libya we have spent million on already?
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Post by japflapper on Oct 1, 2011 9:26:35 GMT -5
Guess you forgot about 'shock and awe'? Ive no doubt they tried to kill saddam as well as goofy quadaffi duck. Even this guy they 'claim' to have killed was thought to of been killed back in the spring, isn't the first time they gunned for him.
With no boots on the ground we don't know for sure if he's dead or not! Just taking someone else's word for it, why they didn't do a drone strike on bin laden, they wanted proof he was dead.
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Post by trapper7 on Oct 4, 2011 10:46:27 GMT -5
They couldn't assassinate Sadaam because he was to heavily guarded. They certainly wanted to, though.
I agree that Ron Paul is crazy. Anyone who thinks it's OK for Iran to have nukes and that it wouldn't be a problem isn't thinking real straight. There are other issues he has too.
Wild Bill had two chance to take out binLaden, and ignored them. Had he done that, we may never have had to retaliate for the strikes on 911.
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