RON PAUL ACCUSED U.S. TROOPS OF SOMETHING

Because it gives my site hits in almost the double digits, and because Free Republic has finally started to ban all Ron Paul Supporters, as it did with Rudy a while ago, I return to the Ron Paul well.

It seems Ron Paul had a newsletter wherein he discussed US Troops bulldozing over Iraqi troops back in the Bush I days.

I always thought this story was common knowledge. Indeed, Google turns up no sites disagreeing with this idea.

Free Republic, as usual, begs to differ with the reality based community:

The Headline is

RON PAUL ACCUSED U.S. TROOPS OF WAR CRIMES IN DESERT STORM

Because I guess if you have already surrendered, you are a POW and can't be shot under the Geneva Convention. I didn't know Free Republic cared about such a quaint document. Also, I don't see any evidence of this accusation in the Ron Paul excerpt I got to see.

Darksheare mixes up post surrender execution with pre-surrender execution (which is not a war crime as far as I know, though it is still despicable).

Ah yes, the famous ‘surrender’ ploy the Iraqis used in Desert Storm.
The Iraqis would walk out with their hands up, tank turrets reversed, etc, and once they got within range of our guuys [sic], the turrets would spin about (try to) and the soldiers would pull out pistols.
Chuck Horner recounts just such an event in “Every Man A Tiger” if memory serves.

Yeah, that Iraqi Army was really committed to Saddam's cause. But if that one guy said it in a book, I believe him over the rest of the media. Good thing we buried them all alive then. AMERICA ROCKS!

And then there's the hate:

Be consistent, he’s apparently not only a lunatic, but a traitor.

This is my favorite though:

Ron Paul is a liberal and so are all his supporters.

HAHAHAHA! Holy Manichean cosmology Batman! If you're not with us you're a...a LIBERAL! There is no room for Libertarians or isolationist conservatives in Free Republic World! Well, at least he's not Hillary Clinton. Or Is he...?
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Free Republic, while it zotted (banned) Rudy supporters, did not do so for disciples of Paul. Until recently. I have an idea as to why.

So there are a lot of zotted comments on these boards. See, on Free Republic, when you are banned, your recent comments are often deleted as well. So I have no idea what they said for the most part, though I did get one clue...

For that kind of money we could have invested in technolgy to give us flying cars like they had in that futuristic cartoon show the Jetsons running on an alternative energy source instead if continueing to p*ss things away in that middle east rathole.

Uh...

Forget the buffet, see the medical officer....

Ask for the green pill with the white stripe....

Not sure whether the poster is telling the Paulite to take Lithium or Cyanide. That's kind of a sad commentary on Free Republic itself.

Though while I think the war is wasting a whole bucketload of money, I'm not sure I'd take the flying car approach in pointing the worth of the money wasted. Anyhow, that comment got that guy banned from the internets.

Within 2 minutes.

Those admins must have been watching this thread, waiting for Ron Paul people to come up. Oh, Free Republic, have you fallen to the depths of redstate?

HillaryWatch: part 1/54.

Hillary Clinton. Or, as Free Republic calls her,

bigbassbutt; devil incarnate; hildabeast; thunderthighs; shrillery; Hitlery; Hillary Rob'em Clinton; Stalin’s Granddaughter (alias, the Red Jezebel)

Free Republic's burning hatred for this woman is unlike any other only in its longevity. I've seen the same intensity in threads about McCain, her husband, Waxman, etc. But Free Republic is the genesis of many of Fox News's later talking points. This does not mean all the ranting gets traction, but it still bears watching.

First, the usual hatred:

many Americans already believe Hillary Clinton is a lesbian

many Americans already believe Hillary Clinton Is a criminal

many Americans already believe Hillary Clinton will kill the economy

many Americans already believe Hillary Clinton gut the military

Actually some substantive fears there...Free Republic, can you ramp up that crazy?

in a just world they would be in chains. Bill and Hillary Clinton are as dirty as pig slop.

I'm ashamed to be an American....knowing these two are walking around scott free.

I'm ashamed of my government....and have no respect for it.

So they are criminals. Abstruction of justice I assume. Oh, and Vince Foster.

If Hillary gets elected, we will have a minimal military. The military will not serve her and they will leave. Can we afford this?

erm. Massive troop defections? Sounds Unamerican.

It may actually take a Hillary presidency to cause a rebellion..............

Yeah, that will be interesting to see. Old people marching against Clinton.

This week, a judge dismised a suit brought by some disgruntled fundraisers and funded by some Freepers. And this did not make the Freepers happy. See, they had laid down with Dem fundraisers, and all they got for it was flees.

Common poster doug from upland was quite involved with the case, and attempts to clarify:

You have misunderstood. I’ve always maintained that she will never be convicted of anything, no matter what she does. The Clintons are above the law. With your help and millions of bloggers, we may be able to convince a small percentage of voters who on the fence that she is radioactive. That is the hope in this effort.

Okay, she is no longer joins her impeached husband as a defendant. Let the depositions and grilling begin. The voters are going to be amazed at what they see that Josh Gerstein and others have failed to reveal.

Hoping for a Clinton Witch Hunt, part II? Good luck with that. I think most of the country will correctly surmise that all that you dig up is partisan claptrap.

By the way, Doug, your fellow freepers are not helping you with the credibility:

The anointed SHE-DEVIL will NEVER get hers here on earth, but in the afterlife! DAMN WITCH!

Now that is productive.

I. Will. Not. Vote. For. This. Witch.

Thanks for clearing that up, kromike, we'll take you off the list.

rllngrk33 (The RATs and Media are the enemy.) has been posting the following list of damming posts on just about every Hillary thread this week:

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”

"It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

"We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

"We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground."

"I certainly think the free market has failed."

"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector [oil] in the entire economy, that they are being watched."

"What I want to do is take those profits and apply them to alternative energy."

Damn! She sounds like...FDR! Get the torches!

And finally, there is the prognostication. Many on Free Republic do not belive Clinton will be president. This clashes with the dire predictions of the others, but there is not much arguing between these two camps. Thus you have both:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The smart women won’t get near her and her traitorous husband.

and

Unfortunately, the Demwits won’t realize her true evil until she takes power (again).

I also find the evil taking power again thing. If the Demwits didn't notice before, what makes you think they will again? Yet this idea, that her evil will bring even the democrats over to the Republicans if she is elected, persists. I guess it's the same on both sides; people were amazed Bush didn't destroy the Republican Party in 2004.

And finally, this word from Outer Space:

If Hillary ever found true love, she would drop politics like a hot potato.