3. Rick Santorum hopes for war with China

Gaffe: "You know, Mitt, I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business."
2012 GOP race: 6 biggest foreign policy gaffes - The Week - Nov 3, 2011.

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