We're arguing about nothing as far as the undeclared war in Iraq goes -- it looks to me like we're on the same side. I agree that it needs to end, and I do not want those who started it to continue to govern. No one of any party, as far as I have seen, wants to try to establish a democratic and limited government in Iraq -- if they want to keep the military there, they want to make a puppet government with a puppet dictator, no better than Saddam Hussein, but nominally on the side of the US, just like Hussein was for a long time.
I don't know why I ever thought that it would be any other way, but I haven't thought that for a long time.
As for Ron Paul, I do not support him because he is a Republican -- in fact, I support him precisely because he is not like other Republicans. I do not know of another Republican politican that I would vote for. If not for him, I would probably be supporting some third-party candidate, most likely a Libertarian, in this election.
That is all.