By National Security Producer Jamie Crawford
If there's an area GOP presidential candidates seemed to agree on Saturday night, it's that President Barack Obama is not doing enough to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Obama's Iran policy was his "greatest failing," and did not rule out military action against Iran in a potential Romney administration.
"If all else fails, if after all of the work we've done, there's nothing else we could do besides take military action. Then of course you take military action," he said when asked of his thoughts on a possible military strike.
"If in the end, despite all of those things, the dictatorship persists you have to take whatever steps are necessary to break its capacity to have a nuclear weapon," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.
Using all covert actions at the disposal of the United States, including the assassination of Iranian scientists working on the country's nuclear program should be the first order of business.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the Obama administration needs to go further in its financial punishment of Iran by sanctioning its Central Bank, an action analysts say could bring the Iranian economy to its knees.
The Obama administration resisted such a move for fear of what it might do to global energy markets in the midst of a slow economic recovery in the United States.
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO, Herman Cain, said the United States must do more to assist the Iranian opposition seeking to overthrow the theocratic regime. Cain followed that statement up be saying he would not "entertain military opposition" in assisting the Iranian opposition.
Rep. Ron Paul said it "isn't worthwhile" going to war to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. I'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on against Iraq," he said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report last week that expressed alarm on Iran's nuclear program.
"The agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program," the report said.
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At least Ron Paul made sense. He'll get my Vote. Sephardic Jews pull ranks and prevent the next Holocaust, when everybody turns on Jews. Let the Russian/Ukrainian blood Jew converts from Europe (Israel is not their home, why do you think Stalin gave them a homeland on Russian soil) go back to Europe, instead of dragging us into WW3
Of course they all agree. They are sponsored by dirty Zionazi (Askenazi) Jew money
It is clear. We need to bonb the F\/CK out of the Iranians. Kill em all and let God sort em out.
private first class is a idf weakly trained propagandist.
First thing America needs to do is kick the dirty evil devil worshiping zionists in racist apartheid israel to the curb. Let them fight their own wars and on their own dime.
Those dirty nasty (they don't shave and shower) zionists will soon get their butts whipped if they should try to bomb iran. I say do it!
And when the nukes have stopped raining down on tel aviv and the rest of the zionist cities, the world will be better off.
Yeah, nuke israel totally!!
Yippppeeeeeee! bomb them back to the stone age.