Throughout this election season, the Republican presidential candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul) have been doing what they do best to get votes, fear mongering over Iran. Since the very first debates, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have been literally saying things to scare the American people into voting for them.
The best examples of their blatant scare tactics were from the February 22nd Arizona Republican debate. Here’s just a few quotes from the hawkish candidates:
Mitt Romney: “Ahmadinejad having fissile material that he can give to Hezbollah and Hamas and that they can bring into Latin America and potentially bring across the border into the United States to let off dirty bombs here. I mean — or — or more sophisticated bombs here, this — we simply cannot allow Iran to have nuclear weaponry… We must now allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. If they do, the world changes. America will be at risk. And some day, nuclear weaponry will be used. If I am president, that will not happen. If we reelect Barack Obama, it will happen.”
Rick Santorum: “We have a president who isn’t going to stop them. (Iran) He isn’t going to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon. We need a new president or we are going to have a cataclysmic situation with a — a power that is the most prolific proliferator of terror in the world that will be able to do so with impunity because they will have a nuclear weapon to protect — protect them for whatever they do. It has to be stopped, and this president is not in a position to do that.”
Newt Gingrich: “You live in a world of total warfare… we live in an age when we have to genuinely worry about nuclear weapons going off in our own cities. So everybody who serves in the fire department, in the police department, not just the first responders, but our National Guard, whoever is going to respond, all of us are more at risk today, men and women, boys and girls, than at any time in the history of this country. And we need to understand that’s the context in which we’re going to have to move forward in understanding the nature of modern combat.”
Just this morning Santorum and Romney gave speeches at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and continued their call for action against Iran.
Mitt Romney: “hope is not a foreign policy… The only thing respected by thugs and tyrants is our resolve, backed by our power and our readiness to use it.”









