What will happen if Mitt Romney becomes President?

1) America will go to war with Iran.

Romney says he can declare war against Iran without congressional approval.

George W. Bush's unnecessary war in Iraq killed over 4,400 American soldiers. Iran is three times larger than Iraq.

Going to war with Iran would triple the price of gas. (You think $4 is a lot to pay for a gallon of gasoline? Imagine gas at $12/gallon.)

Romney's foreign policy team was handpicked from the Bush-Cheney administration. As Time Magazine and Consortium News point out, the same group of neoconservatives that swindled us into invading Iraq have been calling for a similar war against Iran since the 1990's.

2) Romney will reinstate the illegal Bush-Cheney torture policy.

In December 2011, Romney said "We'll use enhanced interrogation techniques which go beyond those that are in the military handbook right now." The problem is, those "enhanced interrogation techniques," i.e. torture, are illegal. Torture is a crime against humanity, and the Allied powers tried and convicted Japanese war criminals for using these techniques -- such as the infamous "waterboarding" torture -- in the World War II era. During his time in office, George W. Bush famously declared that waterboarding isn't really torture. Romney's campaign spokespeople have made very clear that Romney agrees with Bush.

3) Romney will "double Guantanamo."

Romney will reinstate the Bush-Cheney policy of kidnapping people anywhere in the world, including Americans, and imprisoning them forever, without proof, charge, counsel, trial, judge, or jury. Amnesty International has called this prison "the gulag of our time."

4) Romney would ban abortion, with no exceptions.

Romney told NBC: "I hope to appoint justices for the Supreme Court... And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade..."

In 2007, Romney called for a complete ban on all abortions. "We should overturn Roe v. Wade... I would welcome a circumstance where there was such a consensus in this country where we said we don't ... have abortion in this country, at all, period. That would be wonderful. I'd be delighted. Let me say it: I'd be delighted to sign that bill."

It doesn't end there. Romney chose Congressman Paul Ryan to be the next Vice President. Ryan has repeatedly said that abortion should be banned in all circumstances -- even in cases of rape. When asked about rape, Ryan replied "the method of conception does not change the definition of life." So, if a woman is brutally attacked by a violent sex offender she's never seen before, beaten within an inch of her life, and insemenated against her will, Ryan thinks the government should step in and force her to carry the criminal's offspring to term. Romney ally Richard Mourdock says that women should consider this "something that God intended to happen." (Romney claims he disagrees with Mourdock's statement, but still urges Indiana voters to elect his friend to the Senate.)

In 2011, Congressman Ryan consponsored legislation that would have forced an IRS audit on anyone seeking an abortion. The bill provided no exceptions for rape or medical emergency.

In 2012, Ryan cosponsored a bill that would force anyone seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound. The bill would not have forced this traumatic experience on women whose lives were in danger, but it contained no exceptions for rape survivors.

In August 2012, Congressman Todd Akin, a close ally of Ryan, said that rape can't cause pregnancy. (Clearly, Akin has no idea how human bodies work.) Romney joined millions of others in condemning Akin's misogynistic comments. However, a few days later, Romney's party finalized their platform, calling for a ban on all abortions, with no exceptions. Akin's comments were exactly in line with party policy -- Akin could have written the platform himself.

According to CBS, this platform "does not provide exceptions for victims of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother." In other words, if a frail nine-year-old girl was raped and impregnated by her stepfather -- as happened in this Brazilian case -- a Romney Administration would force the girl's family to watch her die rather than permit her doctor to perform the operation that would save her life.

Congressman Ryan has endorsed Congressman Rick Berg for Senate. Like Ryan, Berg wants to ban abortions in cases of rape, and once voted for a bill that would have declared all abortions to be homicides, punishable by life imprisonment -- no matter the circumstances. The bill was so broadly worded that anyone could be charged with murder for using common contraceptives.

5) Romney would ban contraception.

In March 2012, Romney said "Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that."

In 2009, Congressman Ryan co-sponsored Congressman Akin's infamous bill that would have declared a fertilized egg a human being. This proposed law would have outlawed most forms of contraception. It would also have banned in vitro fertilization. Romney thinks so highly of Ryan that he wants him to be Vice President.

In 2011, Romney said he would "absolutely" support a constitutional amendment declaring a fertilized egg a person. As President, Romney would have signed Akin's bill into law.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney vetoed a law that would have required hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape survivors. The state legislature overrode his veto.

6) Romney will reinstate the illegal Bush-Cheney policy of spying on innocent Americans with no connections to terrorism.

In 2005, Romney said the federal government should wiretap Muslim churches.

In contrast, in 2009, pro-abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder. Romney has made no calls to wiretap anti-abortion churches.

7) Romney would raise taxes on everyone making under $200,000/year.

The Bush-Cheney tax cuts for millionaires made the deficit skyrocket -- and are still in effect today, which is part of the reason why the economy is so poor. Romney wants to cut taxes for millionaires even further. In other words, the more money you make, the less taxes you pay.

Romney would abolish Social Security and Medicare to pay for the resulting deficits. (He also wants to abolish FEMA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, public radio, public television, the National Endowment for the Arts, Amtrak, and food stamps. Also, Romney says he wants to discontinue everything the Education Department does and replace it with a new department with the same name. The sole function of Romney's new department would be to break up teachers' unions.)

However, eliminating those programs wouldn't even begin to pay for the millionaires' tax cuts he wants. According to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Romney's plan would raise taxes on all Americans making under $200,000/year -- and we'd still have huge deficits.

President Bush created the largest deficits of any government in history. President Romney's deficits would make the Bush deficits look small. He literally thinks Bush did not go far enough.

Vice-President-to-be Paul Ryan claims to have a plan to reduce the deficit anyway. The facts: according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Ryan's plan to reduce the deficit would actually vastly increase the deficit. According to Krugman, Robert Creamer, Robert Reich, David Fiderer and Geoffrey Stone, this will destroy the economy.

Under the Bush tax rates -- the ones we have now -- most Americans pay 15% of their income in taxes. Because millionaires don't have to pay as much, Mitt Romney only pays 13%. Under Ryan's budget, Romney would only pay 1% of his income in taxes - far less than everyone else.

8) Romney would abolish Social Security.

Though Romney condemned Texas Governor Rick Perry for wanting to abolish Social Security, Romney chose a running mate who agrees with Perry. Vice-President-to-be Paul Ryan has been fighting to abolish Social Security since 2005.

9) Romney would abolish Medicare.

Vice-President-to-be Paul Ryan wants to abolish Medicare. Doing so would would increase senior citizens' medical costs by about $6400 every year. Romney's spokesperson said: "Mitt Romney supports what Paul Ryan did. He endorsed what Paul Ryan did."

10) Romney will lie to you.

Reporter Steve Benen has a blog detailing dozens of lies Romney has told in his campaign for President. (A similar blog is found on Politifact.)

As an example: in August 2012, Romney approved a television advertisement that journalist Jonathan Weiler called "the single most dishonest television ad in the history of American presidential campaigns." Magazine editor Paul Waldman concluded: "...every sentence in there is false."

When ABC News asked Romney pollster Neil Newhouse about it, Newhouse infamously replied: "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."