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In reply to the discussion: Why would any progressive promote Ron Paul's worldview? [View all]Spazito
(55,359 posts)means? It read to me as if Mr. Paul has no problem with war, he just wants the military privatized, public money going to companies like the former Blackwater Security:
"SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL.
The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and her people."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3216: