Ron Paul: US didn't really want to catch Bin Laden

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Ron Paul: U.S. Didn’t Really Want To Catch Bin Laden Because They Needed An Excuse To Invade The Middle East

Former Republican presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul says he doesn’t believe the United States government wanted to catch Osama Bin Laden because they needed him as an excuse to build up the military and invade Middle Eastern countries.

“Matter of fact, can’t you just see the difference that might have occurred. Ya know, they knew where Bin Laden was. I don’t think they really wanted to catch him because he was used as the excuse for us, you know, invading various countries and building up the military,” Paul said on Scott Horton’s radio program.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ron-paul-us-didnt-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-they-neede#.gp9BQyrja5

dipwad

[Blue_Tires]

1. Meh...The last time Paul opened his gob

He was calling Charlie Hebdo a "false flag"

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Paul is a false flag against the human race.

Damned aliens are setting us up, trying to make us look stupid and dangerous to justify their invasion.

I'M SURE OF IT!

[Bandit]

3. I believe that may very well have been true during the Bush*/Cheney Administration

In fact Bush* said he could care less about Bin Laden, said he had been marginalized.. They had him and then switched focus so they could attack Iraq..

[CJCRANE]

4. I came to DU after Tora Bora. It just seemed strange how Bush lost interest

after OBL skipped over the border into Pakistan. Then the pivot to Iraq happened.

Anyone who wasn't here on DU during the early Bush years probably doesn't know what it was like. We questioned everything, particularly to do with the war on terror.

[elleng]

5. When he's right he's right,

and this is one of those times. W and his crew did NOT want to catch bin laden, wanted an excuse to invade Middle Eastern countries,
7 countries in 5 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

[liberal N proud]

6. He was the boogie man and that was good for the terror business

And Obama went and took that candy away from them.

[City Lights]

7. A more accurate statement would be that the GOPee didn't

really want to catch OBL.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Plan b (or, maybe Plan a) was to lose several wars and inflame the M.E.

Mission Accomplished.

[joeybee12]

9. Maybe the US did, but Bush and Cheney didn't

They had him in their sights and let him slip away...endless war makes for a great campaign tactic.

[geek tragedy]

10. I'm not so willing to disagree with him re: Bush/Cheney. Obama obviously did want to get bin Laden.

[notadmblnd]

11. Correction- Bush didn't want to capture Bin Laden.

We heard him say so.

[samsingh]

12. where was he when the rest of us were saying this very thing in 2003

[edhopper]

13. That should help his son's

Presidential campaign.

[JI7]

14. Maybe Bush but not Obama

[jwirr]

15. True of the bush era for sure.