'Going to war with Iran, not going to happen,' Mitt Romney said.
"The president made it very clear that he thinks the greatest foreign policy mistake, probably in the modern age, was the decision by President [George W.] Bush to go into Iraq," Romney said. "The idea that he would follow the same path by going after Iran, a more difficult enemy, if you will, militarily — that’s just not going to happen.
"In circumstances like that, when the intelligence community says there’s a greater degree of risk, out of an abundance of caution you, of course, take people out of harm‘s way and you also communicate, as the president has, that we’re not going to sit back and just watch things unfold," the Utah Republican continued.
Romney's GOP colleague in the Senate, Tom Cotton, also downplayed the threat of military conflict with Iran in an interview Sunday. "No one, to my knowledge, is proposing what you saw in Iraq with 150,000 troops mass to invade a country, overthrow its government and try to govern 80 million Iranians," Cotton told host Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"We'd like to see the regime change its behavior," the Arkansas Republican continued. "But my point about the first strike and the last strike is the United States is not going to take the first strike here. But if Iran attacks the United States or our allies in the first strike, then it will be up to America in a time and a manner of our choosing to take the last strike because our military will devastate theirs.
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