Rand Paul Appears on NBC's Meet the Press- May 17, 2015

and welcome back moments ago we talked about Jeb bush's challenging we joining me now is one of his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination senator rand Paul of Kentucky by

the way has a brand new book coming out taking a state moving beyond partisan politics to unite America it'll be released in just over a week we got an exclusive first look and

governor bush's sort of fourth answer on this saying that he wouldn't have gone into the war in Iraq knowing what we know now are you satisfied now

I think it's an important question and I don't think it's a historical addict anecdote I don't think it's a something

that's a hypothetical question I think it's a recurring question in the nightly is it a good idea to

top all secular dictators and what happens when we do I think when Hussein was toppled we got chaos we still have chaos in Iraq in

I think the same question to be pharaoh to be asked of Hillary Clinton if she ever takes questions they should ask her was

it a good idea to invade living did that make us less safe did it make it more chaotic did it allow radical Islam and she

grows stronger still occur question and so was the question of should we have gone into Libya you know senator Marco Rubio so

Saddam Hussein is not a row you're sort of implying that you disagree with that you believe the world would be a better place if Saddam Hussein we're

still the strong man or I don't think that's exactly how it could but I would say that I think that we

you have this radical brand of jihad is radical brand of Islam that is now strong and growing stronger because of

sort of the failed states that Iraq is is the same thing going on in Libya so this is a valid debate we're gonna have to have this debate now in the Republican primary but in general as

sensually saying you know what intervention and and making a strong case against intervention intervention

over the years is only Sir to create more problem then it was designed to stop but I guess let me ask you the it would

that was the reason to go in Iraq as far as George W. bush's concern and that is a reason some people say we might have have

that military option on the table with Iran is that a viable and go to war to prevent another country from

starting a nuclear weapons from I think that we always have to have the threat of military force behind

tupelo miss but I would prefer diplomacy I think we can still have negotiations and the thing is is that we negotiate with the Soviets for seventy years we

ended up coming to a peaceful outcome I think with Iran we need to be steady and firm they cannot have a nuclear weapons program there

has to be the threat of military force but my hope is really the negotiations continue their some in my party sale I don't want any negotiations array to be done with it once

you're done with negotiations choices are war or they get a weapon and I don't want to have just those two binary choices you

problem is we've already sent the wrong that the last time a leader gave up his desire of for weapons of mass destruction and we

bombed his country and took amount you're referring to Qaddafi we gave up nuclear ambitions and then two years later in

a different administration Obama administration and they ended up taking about your implying that the Iranian shouldn't trust the United States in these negotiations are you know I