NEWSMAX: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul says it was a big “mistake” to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein — and that it may have made Iran “twice as strong as it was before the Iraq War.”
Speaking to Orthodox Jews at the Torah Umesorah Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Paul also said he doesn’t support war with Iran over its nuclear bomb program, and blamed Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton for the turmoil in Libya after U.S. forces dumped Moammar Gadhafi, the New York Observer reports.
Paul also warns that any attempt to oust Syrian dictator Bashar Assad would only lead to the Islamic State’s (ISIS) being “in charge of Damascus.”… (more)
EDITOR: What makes this of triple interest is Paul was speaking to an Orthodox Jewish audience that tends to be hawkish and the report is published by a popular conservative web site.
Could it be that the libertarian side of the ‘Grand Old Party’ will at long last make itself heard?
