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7:21 PM PT: Michele Bachmann says Gitmo caught bin Laden. Then she says she's on the Intelligence Committee, and that she won't reveal classified information, but that Iran is the most grave threat in the world today, and that we need to continue fighting the war on terror without respecting legal rights. Ron Paul says she's crazy and that we do need the rule of law.
7:24 PM PT: Holy crap: Rick Santorum just said Iran was evil because it oppressed gays. This debate has officially gone full-double-tilt crazy. Then Ron Paul got pissed off at him for having supported the Iraq War, which Santorum proudly admitted he had supported.
7:26 PM PT: One of the amazing things about the foreign policy section is that Mitt Romney didn't want to say a fucking word. He stayed as far from it as possible.
7:28 PM PT: Herman Cain says he doesn't find Mormonism problematic, but that he lives in Atlanta and that the people who live around him are concerned about it and don't understand it. In other words, Cain says he's not a bigot, but his neighbors are.
7:29 PM PT: BTW, isn't Newt Gingrich insufferable? I mean, he loves to talk. But only to hear his own voice. Ron Paul loves to talk, because he has ideas he wants to share. And Rick Santorum wants to talk because he's pissed off at something.