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An Attack Would Only Strengthen Iran's Influence

A pre-emptive strike would make containing Iran's nuclear program harder, not easier

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"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." -- Ron Paul

Only Ron Paul, of all the presidential candidates of both major parties, has repeatedly spoken out clearly and forcefully against the belligerent war propaganda and calculated lies in the bipartisan lead up to war with Iran, against the bipartisan campaign for punitive sanctions against Iran, and against further covert operations to destabilize the fragile geopolitical situation in the Mideast. He is not afraid to speak truth to power.

The principled constitutionalist and noninterventionist Paul was right from the start about our disastrous preemptive imperial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, right from the start about the destructive 'blowback' fomenting more hatred directed towards America, right from the start about the Federal Reserve's monetary policies creating the housing bubble which led to the 2008 financial meltdown, right from the start about the War on Drugs, the USA Patriot Act and the TSA imposing a fascist police state upon the American people.

Ron Paul 2012.

Right Then.

Right Now.

Right For America.

Charles of OK 12:42PM November 19, 2011

If the Elvis Presely Checkers Champs were to provoke military action they would soon become learned in the origins and rules of chess.

Surfbones of TX 7:23AM November 19, 2011

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