Bachmann: Ron Paul’s foreign policy views a ‘total disqualifier’

{mosads}Speaking Friday on KSCJ Radio in Sioux City, Iowa, Bachmann lambasted the Texas lawmaker over their exchange at Thursday’s debate about how to deal with a potentially nuclear Iran.

“It was unbelievable,” Bachmann said. “It’s a total disqualifier as far as I’m concerned. It’s a disqualifier …This is so off-base, and this isn’t just one thing, this is all of foreign policy. I could not disagree with Ron Paul more.”

At Thursday’s debate, the two were involved in a heated back and forth after Paul said the bigger threat isn’t a nuclear Iran, but rather the “war propaganda” that will lead to “another Iraq.”

“Why are we — why do we have 900 bases in 130 countries and we’re totally bankrupt,” Paul said. “How do you rebuild a military when we have no money? How are we going to take care of the people?”

“I think this wild goal to have another war in the name of defense is the dangerous thing,” he continued. “The danger is really us overreacting. We need a strong national defense and we need to only go to war with a declaration of war and carelessly flubbing it and starting these wars so often.”

Bachmann shot back that a war may be justified because the Iranians are looking to build a nuclear weapon for the purposes of attacking the United States.

“With all due respect to Ron Paul, I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for American security than the one that we just heard from Ron Paul,” she said. “We know without a shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map and they stated they will use it against the United States of America.”

“Look no further than the Iranian constitution, which states unequivocally that their mission is to extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up for worldwide caliphate. We would be fools to ignore their purpose and their plan,” she said.