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Mainly Ron Paul wants to stop spending money overseas and instead spend it at home. Makes sense to me.This issue is so important, I really don't care about the rest. I see no candidates clearly advocating getting out other than Ron Paul and it could get him enough votes to win from people who don't ordinarily vote (the majority of people in the US) and/or independents.
That said, I think we are at a shit or get off the pot point in US History. We either need to take over the middle east, or get out.
Ron Paul is for getting out. That is what I want. I think the American Empire is going to have some rough times ahead and I don't want to have anymore pissed off people from the middle east that we bombed on false pretenses attacking America. The longer we mettle is stuff over there with troops and/or the CIA the more of this we will have. We should pull out quickly and decisively and shut down all our bases over there and let them sort it out themselves so we can take care of our own.
On the other hand, if we are going to stay in the middle east it is time for some serious attacking. Let's stop this "terror" BS and have a leader with some balls come out just say that we are America and we are going to take control of the last remaining oil fields and if you don't like it you can talk to our Nimitz class super carrier parked outside your country. At least then we would be honest to our troops who are disillusioned with all this "terror" talk as much as we are back home, because we can all see that it is BS.
Ron Paul is a long shot though which sucks... I saw on one of the fund raising polls that he got a majority of his funding from military personnel.
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