[ applause ] governor huntsman diane, you hit right on it, and that is what is the vision for getting this country moving. we all have records. those of us who are governors, very specific job creation records. i delivered a flat tax in my state. we became the top job creator in the country. you can look at what mitt did in massachusetts. he was number 47, but more to the point, i went to lindy s diner and had a conversation with a guy named jamie who has a small motorcycle repair shop. he said when he grew up, it was bustling with activity. he said he had 30 different jobs growing up. he said there were four machine tool operations in that town. he said i remember the excitement, the enthusiasm, and all of the opportunity. and we had this conversation. i said, you know what, we re once again on the cusp of a manufacturing renaissance in this country if we do it right. china is going down in terms of gdp growth from 8%, 9%, 10% to 4%, 6%. as they go down in growth, unemployment g
this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. the word radical islam doesn t appear anywhere. why? because we re fight we re trying to fight this politically correct war and not talking about how they hate us and what we must do to stop us. we know you have differences with president obama, but who has the better argument between snoe santorum and huntsman? i would send troops back into iraq. now? i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there, the idea that we allow the iranians to come back into iraq and take over that country with all of the treasure both in blood and money that we have spent in iraq, because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base and move out the men and women. he could have been renegotiated that time frame. i think it s a huge error for s us. we re going to see iran in my opinion, move back in at literally the speed of light. they re going to move back in and all of the work that we have done,
country is ensured. that s what the job of our commander in chief is. you make that decision. not the generals. you make that decision based on an analysis of understanding how virulent the threat of radical islam is. and you confront that threat not just militarily and importantly not just militarily. you confront it first by being honest with the american public about what this threat is. this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. there s the word radical islam doesn t appear anywhere. why? because we are fighting political we re trying to fight this politically correct war and not being honest with the american public as to who the enemy is, how virulently they are and why they hate us. and what we must do to stop them. i know you have differences with president obama but who has the better of this argument between senator santorum and governor huntsman? i think that you have to i would send troops back into iraq, because i will tell you
that time frame. i think it s a huge error for adviser. i worked with him in the 80s on the strategy to defeat the soviet empire. if you re worried about the iranians in iraq, develop a strategy to replace the iranians dictatorship and iraq will be fine. if you want to stop wahhabiism, get an american energy policy so no american president ever bows to a saudi king. then you can put pressure on the saudis because you have enough american energy to stop this. governor romney, let s you have said that you would not send troops in right now. but give us a sense of the trigger, what would it take for you to send troops back in? it s a very high hurdle. the decision to send our men and women into harm s way is one which will be made with great seriousness and sobriety what kind of things? you can t begin to say, but it would have to require significant, dramatic american interests. you have to have a president explain the interests and indicated how we d go in. we d g