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July 16, 2007
Ron Paul Tries to Outflank Edwards and Kucinich on the Lunatic Fringe
Posted by Dave Blount at July 16, 2007 10:47 AM
While debate continues as to whether wacky presidential candidate Ron Paul is a 9/11 truther himself, there can be no doubt that he goes down on all fours to pander to the lunatics who choose to believe it was not Muslim terrorists but the US government that committed the atrocities of September 11, 2001.
Paul has again announced that we are "in great danger" of a terror attack deliberately staged by our government so as to justify infringement of our liberties. He also continues to flack for the ayatollahs, raving that our economy is on the verge of a collapse that could be precipitated by bombing Iran.
His latest bizarre remarks were made on The Alex Jones Show, a suitable venue for paranoid ravings. Alex Jones is so profoundly deranged, he suspects Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui was a government assassin brainwashed by the CIA. Paul is on the same page as unhinged leftist Cindy Sheehan, who has been screaming that when al-Qaeda strikes again, it will actually be a staged pretext for martial law.
Paul has made similar assertions in the past. Via Ace of Spades HQ:
The money quote from the video above:
Nothing in history hints that [Iran] is likely to invade a neighboring country, let alone do anything to America or Israel. I'm concerned however that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin type incident may well occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.
Yes, he's talking about the same Iran that invaded our embassy in an act of war, that held Americans hostage for over a year, that has sponsored repeated terror attacks against Americans and Israelis, that through proxy terror groups has recently invaded Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, that is franticly developing nuclear weapons, and that has explicitly threatened both the USA and Israel. The ignorance of current events displayed by this weird little man almost matches his paranoia.
Hat tip: Hot Air, on tips from Crush Liberalism and Wiggins.
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This one had to be reposted from yesterday due to technical problems. Sorry about the lost comments.
