{"id":4098,"date":"2007-12-04T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T03:16:34","slug":"ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ron-paul-vindicated-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Vindicated on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\">Ron Paul<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>is the only non-Armageddon presidential\u00c2\u00a0candidate among the Republicans.\u00c2\u00a0 He is the only person who staunchly opposes a massive first strike against Iran because of\u00c2\u00a0 its alleged nuclear program.\u00c2\u00a0 He has long been ridiculed for his aversion to preemptive genocide in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The National Intelligence Estimate yesterday reported that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003.\u00c2\u00a0 This blows to pieces the Bush-Neoconservative case for war.<\/p>\n<p>Bush<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/12\/04\/white-house-knew-of-nie%e2%80%99s-judgments-for-months\/\"><strong> knew 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.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Cheney has been even more bloodthirsty, as usual.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Top Bush supporters like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/12\/04\/podhoretz-nie-iran\">Norman Podhoretz<\/a><\/strong> are wailing that the intelligence agencies are cheating them out of another U.S. government-orchestrated slaughter of Muslims.\u00c2\u00a0 Not exactly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Presidential Medal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Podhoretz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the soul of the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fall of 2002, Ron Paul stood almost alone denouncing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153phantom weapons\u00e2\u20ac\u009d claims the Bush team was invoking to attack Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Once again, he has been proven right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul\u00c2\u00a0is the only non-Armageddon presidential\u00c2\u00a0candidate among the Republicans.\u00c2\u00a0 He is the only person who staunchly opposes a massive first strike against Iran because of\u00c2\u00a0 its alleged nuclear program.\u00c2\u00a0 He has long been ridiculed for his aversion to preemptive genocide in the Middle East. The National Intelligence Estimate yesterday reported that Iran abandoned its nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}