Rick Santorum responds to CBS News Democrat DebateVERONA, PA - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) issued the following statement following this evening's CBS News Democrat Debate.
Rick Santorum said: "Hillary Clinton's continued refusal to level with the American people about the enemy we face, the threat they pose, and sacrifice necessary to defeat them disqualifies her to be Commander-in-Chief. We are not at war with 'violent extremists.' We are at war with radical Islam, radical Islamists that just yesterday murdered hundreds of innocent French civilians."
"As a Senator, Hillary Clinton voted against my legislation that imposed sanctions on the radical Iranian mullahs. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton abandoned the Iranian pro-democracy movement during the Green Revolution, sat home while our embassy burned and our ambassador died in Benghazi, and allied with the Muslim Brotherhood as the Egyptian government crumbled. And now as a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton refuses to even identify the threats we face," continued Santorum.
"Radical Islamists hate everything we stand for. They seek to destroy us and our way of life. ISIS only has power as long as they can establish a caliphate. Iran seeks a nuclear weapon to bring about the return of the Mahdi. Hillary Clinton fundamentally does not understand the World in which we live, the threats that we face, and the ideology of our enemy. Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be Leader of the Free World," concluded Santorum.
