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Ron Paul: I would prefer them not to. And I think, if we had a different foreign policy, they wouldn't have an incentive. But, if…

On the recordOctober 31, 2007
I would prefer them not to. And I think, if we had a different foreign policy, they wouldn't have an incentive. But, if they did, I wouldn't -- I wouldn't do that much about it. I wouldn't bomb them. I mean, they're a third-rate nation. They're not going to attack us. They are incapable of even attacking their neighbors. They are incapable of and they have no history of doing this. So, to stir up hatred that's so unnecessary and needless just doesn't make any sense. I mean, the Pakistanis have them. There's a lot of nuclear weapons floating around in the old Soviet Union. So, it isn't the nuclear weapons. We're just looking for an excuse. This is war propaganda to give us -- get the American people behind the bombing of Iran, just like the war propaganda got us all worked up and thought we had to go get Saddam Hussein, which was absolutely unnecessary.
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Ron Paul discusses his views on Iran having nuclear weapons and criticizes the war propaganda that leads to military action.

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