{"id":3178,"date":"2015-04-25T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/ron-paul-us-didnt-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-they-neede"},"modified":"2015-04-25T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T09:50:31","slug":"ron-paul-u-s-didnt-really-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-they-needed-an-excuse-to-invade-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/3178","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: U.S. Didn’t Really Want To Catch Bin Laden Because They Needed An Excuse To Invade The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<b>&ldquo;Ya know, they knew where Bin Laden was. I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<\/b>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"buzz_sub_buzz\" class=\"c suplist_article suplist_list_show \">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3676470_5016786\">\t\t\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-02\/18\/12\/enhanced\/webdr12\/enhanced-buzz-22443-1424278880-17.jpg\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" alt=\"\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-02\/18\/12\/enhanced\/webdr12\/enhanced-buzz-22443-1424278880-17.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Mark Makela \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text  buzz_superlist_item_wide   \" id=\"superlist_3676470_5016592\">\t\t\t\t<p class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">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. <\/p>\n<p>“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. <\/p>\n<p>Paul was discussing his September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 in the context of the debate over the Authorization for the Use of Military Force against Islamic State. Paul’s letter of marque and reprisal would have authorized a small private force to capture Osama Bin Laden for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>“So if you had a private force that was going to be paid to go over and get him because they had pretty good knowledge of where he was and taking care of him early on, just think of the benefits that would have come from a very, very narrowed approach to you know, going after those people that were participating in 9\/11.”<\/p>\n<p>Here’s the audio:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_video video_soundcloud buzz_superlist_item_wide video_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3676470_5016593\">\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content c\">\n\n[soundcloud url=”http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/191646017″]\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F191646017&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=false&amp;show_artwork=true\">w.soundcloud.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/ron-paul-us-didnt-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-they-neede\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/ron-paul-us-didnt-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-they-neede<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Ya know, they knew where Bin Laden was. I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo; View this image &rsaquo; Mark Makela \/ Reuters Former Republican presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul says he doesn’t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/3178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ron Paul: U.S. Didn’t Really Want To Catch Bin Laden Because They Needed An Excuse To Invade The Middle East<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1818],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-ron-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/14299338351746-ron-paul-us-didnt-want-to-catch-bin-laden-because-2-17405-1424279712-0_dblbig.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}