{"id":368,"date":"2007-12-04T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T03:39:23","slug":"ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Vindicated on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Paul<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is the only non-Armageddon presidential\u00a0candidate among the Republicans.\u00a0 He is the only person who staunchly opposes a massive first strike against Iran because of\u00a0 its alleged nuclear program.\u00a0 He has long been ridiculed for his aversion to preemptive genocide in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The National Intelligence Estimate yesterday reported that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003.\u00a0 This blows to pieces the Bush-Neoconservative case for war.<\/p>\n

Bush has known this<\/strong> <\/a>for at least the last 5 or 6 months, but he continued rattling his missiles and warning of World War III if Iran did not kowtow to U.S. demands.\u00a0\u00a0 Cheney has been even more bloodthirsty, as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top Bush supporters like Norman Podhoretz<\/a><\/strong> are wailing that the intelligence agencies are cheating them out of another U.S. government-orchestrated slaughter of Muslims.\u00a0 Not exactly “Presidential Medal” Podhoretz’s words, but that’s the soul of the complaint.<\/p>\n

In the Fall of 2002, Ron Paul stood almost alone denouncing the “phantom weapons” claims the Bush team was invoking to attack Iraq.\u00a0\u00a0 Once again, he has been proven right.<\/p>\n

If Republican primary voters are looking for wisdom, the choice is easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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