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Says. when ron paul offends most of the people in his republican debate audiences with his consistent principle defiant stance against war making, anti-war voters like me are thrilled. and when ron paul says he wants to cut the size of government more than any other republican candidate, the anti-tax and anti-government spending crowd loves him. and all of those points are consistent with the libertarian philosophy of governing. but when ron paul talks about his unyielding opposition to a women's right to choose, when ron paul says the government should prevent all abortions, the standard repu...

State senator or mayor or still councillor to do than to object to what the president of the united states plans to. this is what the 41-year-old state senator said in his fifth year on the job, a job that had nothing to do with war making. >> i don't oppose war in all circumstances, and when i look out over this crowd today, i know there is no shortage of patriots or patriotism. what i do oppose is a dumb war. >> needless to say, president bush didn't hear that speech that day. none of us who were not at federal plaza heard that speech. five months later, the president made this announcement....

a very big get. he was the only american on an official u.s. hit list and his killing has touched off this firestone today among critics. they contend that this killing breaks u.s. and international laws. today the president made it very clear that no terrorist is safe. >> make into mistake, this is further proof that al qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world. working with yemen and our other allies and partners, we will be determined, deliberate, and relentless and resolute in our attempt to aim americans. and to build a world in which people everywhe...

Be the headquarters for the libyan war. that war effort will now be run by nato. the no-fly zone part of it and the bombing gadhafi's ground troops part of it which they call something like protecting civilians. this ship named after the highest peak in the continental united states will no longer be the place from which the libyan war is run. does that mean american personnel will be doing any less of the war making in libya? and are u.s. taxpayers funding any less of the war making in libya, even if the united states military is not running it from that particular ship? answers to those ques...

Having done it. very pragmatic. >> the other elements you talk about being invited to do it in effect by the rebels, having the international coalition. but all of those elements being together, and what he doesn't say specifically but what seems clear to me is we looked at this theater of war and thought we were our equipment could be successful in what we're trying to do in this particular place. we may look at a place like somalia and say the stuff we can bring there won't really work or one of the other countries, what we have to bring won't work. so it seems to me there's a practical war-...