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stunning iowa success? is time running out for these candidates to catch the front-runner? save their campaigns? we ve got some tough decisions to make. we are going to take america back. believe me, this momentum is going to continue. the voting has begun. the stakes couldn t be any higher. n tonight, we put them all to the test. so what s next in this campaign season filled with so many dramatic surprises? this is the abc news republican presidential debate. your voice. your vote. now joining us tonight from new hampshire s own wmur, political director josh mckelvin. good evening to all of you. welcome to st. anselm college and the first debate of 2012. those eight votes in iowa vote counts. we are off and running. great to be here with you, josh. now let s introduce the candidates. former governor jon huntsman, ron paul, former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, rick santorum, former speak of the house newt gingrich and texas governor rick perry. ....
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 ....
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 ....
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. ....
Privacy is embedded and far from that believes the states have right to ban contraceptions and should add that he s not recommending that the states do that. well absolutely, i m giving you your due. 10th amendment and i want to get to that core question. governor romney, do you believe that the states have the right to ban contraception or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy. george, this is an unusual topic you re raising, but the states have the right to ban contraception, i can t imagine a state banning contraception. mike: and here with analysis is former debate coach, president of o donnell and associates, fred o donnell. now that michele bachmann is out of the race you can be objective. what do you think of that question, you look as stephanopoulos is asking it, did you see the look on mitt romney s face. the same look on my face, wait, wait, what? what did you think of it. i think that abc spent about the first hour of the ....