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>> i think the other candidates, frankly, have been trigger happy. the way they are talking about military action against iran. the bar is so low that they think, you know, just saying boo to america when it came to the drone getting captured, that was enough to trigger military action. thats what most of the candidates said in that last debate. so for all of this wackiness, for all the isolationism and the anti-war sentiment, which wont fly with the republican elites, i think actually mainstrea...

Abolish a lot of them. so, you know, we see that. you know, are they going to bargain on cutting off all aid to israel? are they going to bargain on actually some of the things in his platform that are anti-war and anti-militarist, anti-militarism that really light up his supporters? none of that is negotiable. its hard to see what the end game would be. what he would do with that influence. >> lets listen to part of pauls stump speech in iowa today. >> listen to other candidates. theyre willing...

away from the first tests that count. the battle for iowa and the dramatic shift in the race as it goes down to the wire. newt gingrich is telling mitt romney he needs to man up about his negative attacks. romney is asking why gingrich is so angry. stand by for my interviews with gingrich and romney along with romneys wife ann. iowas new rising star, rick santorum, and the surprising ron paul. welcome to our viewers from around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room."...

Appealing to the same block of iowa republicans? >> i think so. i think ron paul is on to something. there is an anger in the electorate. you see the same thing on the far left-hand side of the movement. people are angry throughout the political spectrum. and so i think its easy to dismiss ron paul. i certainly agree with those who say hes not going to be the republican nominee for president, but i think hes on to something. pat buchanan was on to something. pat robinson was on to something. so ...

Something. there is an anger in the electorate. you see the same thing on the far left-hand side of the movement. people are angry throughout the political spectrum. and so i think its easy to dismiss ron paul. i certainly agree with those who say hes not going to be the republican nominee for president, but i think hes on to something. pat buchanan was on to something. pat robinson was on to something. so you have to read these results as something more than who comes in first and second. you h...

Its about 600,000 republicans. and, you know, down here below that is 120,000 likely caucus goers. so they can be hard to find. secondly theres a lot of new people. you were talking about this ron paul phenomenon. hes attracting new people. about a third of the likely caucus goers say theyre first time. those people get awfully hard to find. so what it means is this is going to be difficult, impossible to predict. and its great. were going to have a race in a week. >> thinking back on previous r...

>> i think so. i think ron paul is on to something. there is an anger in the electorate. you see the same thing on the far left-hand side of the movement. people are angry throughout the political spectrum. and so i think its easy to dismiss ron paul. i certainly agree with those who say hes not going to be the republican nominee for president, but i think hes on to something. pat buchanan was on to something. pat robinson was on to something. so you have to read these results as something more ...

So they can be hard to find. secondly theres a lot of new people. you were talking about this ron paul phenomenon. hes attracting new people. about a third of the likely caucus goers say theyre first time. those people get awfully hard to find. so what it means is this is going to be difficult, impossible to predict. and its great. were going to have a race in a week. >> thinking back on previous republican caucuses, in 1996 of course bob dole won the republican nomination that year and bob dole...

And, you know, down here below that is 120,000 likely caucus goers. so they can be hard to find. secondly theres a lot of new people. you were talking about this ron paul phenomenon. hes attracting new people. about a third of the likely caucus goers say theyre first time. those people get awfully hard to find. so what it means is this is going to be difficult, impossible to predict. and its great. were going to have a race in a week. >> thinking back on previous republican caucuses, in 1996 of ...

Theydy not want america in the battle of europe at all. after the bombing of pearl harbor, churchill thought it was imperative to get over here and lobby fdr. >> for europe, first. >> break this down. took seven days to get here. >> took nine days to get here. he came to dinner and he wouldnt leave. he had it too good. he had the drinking water in the white house. he decided in america, away from the idea of japan first. >> he understood the sent in the the country that believed in isolationism ...