Republican congressman: We used to be allies with Osama bin Laden. Now he's our enemy.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/26/ldt.01.html

PILGRIM: Sir, that is a real worry. What do you say about that?

PAUL: Well, I think he's very sincere, and he believes it. But he believes it just as sincerely as I do, that the al Qaeda is there now, and it is a problem. But they weren't there before.

And it's our foreign policy that I object to. We used to be allies with Osama bin Laden. Now he's our enemy. We used to be allies with Saddam Hussein. Now he's our enemy. This on again/off again thing is what bothers me.

You know, 9/11 was not -- had nothing to do with Iraq. 15 of the 19 came from Saudi Arabia. So there are our bosom buddies, and we're their best friends. Pakistan is probably where Osama bin Laden is. We have essentially forgotten about him. So it's the foreign policy overall.

But yes, there's going to be problems and chaos. But my argument is that it's time that American soldiers quit being killed, and it's time for us to quit killing a lot of other people that have not attacked us.

He's dead-on about some issues, but has some nutty libertarian ideas about others. He's also rabidly anti-choice.

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He's kind of a maverick; ran for president as a Libertarian in '88, and was opposed by the R leadership in his primary. He's a little bit of a nut, too.