Campaign Statements — War on Terror
Wednesday November 23, 2011
“[Ahmadinejad] has said that if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. He will use it against the United States of America.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Michele Bachmann | War on Terror |
Wednesday November 23, 2011
“This is a giant step – this should be the biggest news going right now – literally legalizing martial law”
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CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Ron Paul | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“President Obama feels that we’re going to be a nation which has multipolar balancing militaries. I believe that American military superiority is the right course. President Obama says that we have people throughout the world with common interests. I just don’t agree with him. I think there are people in the world that want to oppress other people, that are evil.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I think we do our national interests a disservice by jumping in too soon and taking up sides with people we don’t fully understand, Islamist groups, pan-Arab groups. Our interest in the Middle East is Israel. And our interest is to ensure that Israel—that Iran does not go nuclear.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Jon Huntsman | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I worry most about overreaction on our part, getting involved in another war when we don’t need to, when we have been attacked, and our national security has not been at threat. And I worry a lot about people never have come around to understanding who the Taliban is and why they are motivated.
...Taliban doesn’t mean they want to come here and kill us. The Taliban means they want to kill us over there because all they want to do is get people who occupy their country out of their country, just like we would if anybody tried to occupy us.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Ron Paul | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I agree with Ron Paul. We are not fighting a war on terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic. We’re fighting a war against radical Islam. And what radical Islam is telling—all of the radical Islamist leaders are saying is that just wait America out, America is weak, they will not stand for the fight, they cannot maintain this, they’ll set time limits, politics will interfere, and we will tell the people in Afghanistan, we will tell the people in Iraq and other places that we will be the strong horse in the region.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Iraq | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“We need to bring Pakistan into the 21st century—or the 20th century, for that matter, so that they—they can engage throughout the world with trade and with modernity…We can do a lot better directing that to encourage people to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities the West and freedom represent for their people.”
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CATEGORIES: American Exceptionalism | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“And until Pakistan clearly shows that they have America’s best interests in mind, I would not send them one penny, period. I think it is important for us to send the message to those across the world that, if you are not going to be an ally of the United States, do not expect a dime of our citizens’ money to be coming into your country.”
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CATEGORIES: Rick Perry | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“And an expanded drone program is something that would serve our national interest…I think it must be done. And I think it must be consistent with recognizing the reality on the ground of what we need out of Afghanistan—we don’t need 100,000 troops in Afghanistan.We don’t need to nation-build in Afghanistan when this nation so desperately needs to be built….We need something in Afghanistan. We need Special Forces and drones.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Jon Huntsman | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“And terrorism is a tactic. It isn’t a person. It isn’t a people. So this is a very careless use of words.”
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CATEGORIES: Ron Paul | War on Terror |
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