Santorum: Obama 'Was Ready to Jump in Bed with the Muslim Brotherhood'

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Now to Iran, another discussion in tonight's debate. And I think you made the comment that Syria is a puppet of Iran, or somebody did. Obviously Iran is a very serious issue right now. And so far we haven't been very successful in persuading Iran not to go forward with its program, at least as far as we know. Even the intelligence we gather is not particularly good, I don't think. If you were president what would you be doing about Iran, beginning tonight?

RICK SANTORUM, GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, you know, you can go back to look at my history. Eight years I suggested and actually pushed forward and passed a bill to fund and to impose very tough sanctions on the Iranian government, to use all sorts of covert and working with other interests in the region to try to dismantle and slow down the process of developing these weapons.

And the main thing that has to be done is we need to do what President Obama was very willing to do in Egypt and Libya but seems reticent to do in Syria and Iran, those two connected states, which is to support the pro- democracy movement in those countries. The president was ready to jump in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and Egypt, but again has actually sided originally with Syria in this struggle by recognizing them as a government for first time in many years, put an embassy in place in Syria. And of course during the elections in 2009 when the green revolution was sparked in Iran, he sided with Ahmadinejad of the Mullahs.

Again, if you are an enemy of the United States, you probably -- you are going to get very nice treatment from Obama. But if you are a friend you will get thrown under the bus.