Mitt Romney would 'respect' Israel strike on Iran, aide says ....pander much mitt?

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by the way, that 'aide' is dan senor

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JERUSALEM - Mitt Romney would “respect” Israel if it were to decide it had to use military force to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, a senior aide said on Sunday as the Republican presidential candidate began his visit to Jerusalem.

"If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that decision," Romney's senior national security aide Dan Senor told reporters traveling with the candidate.

While stopping short of endorsing a preemptive military attack, the comment seemed to differ with President Barack Obama's attempts to convince Israel to avoid any such move.

Gov. Romney’s first meeting was Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who greeted him as a “personal friend and friend of Israel.”

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/29/13016589-mitt-romney-would-respect-israel-strike-on-iran-aide-says?lite

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1. Knownothing Mitt would essentially applaud

turning the Middle East into a radioactive wasteland.

That's some Chimp-level strategery there Mittens.

[spanone]

3. fox rewrote the headline.....

Romney would back Israeli strike against Iran, senior adviser says

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/29/romney-would-back-israeli-strike-against-iran-senior-adviser-says/#ixzz221FsFK2i


i guess 'respect' would confuse their pointyheaded readers

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2. Mitt releases the "Dogs of War" yet poor Seamus is stuck on the roof. n/t

[lastlib]

4. This scares the jeezus out of me!

What does that idiot think he's doing?? Inviting Israel and Iran to a third world war?? Has he really thought this through?? (the question obviously answers itself--No.) People, DO NOT let this MORON anywhere NEAR the White House!!

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5. his goal is to become CEO of america. whatever it takes. lies, truth, whatever.

he'll do, say whatever.

he has the entire bu$h* team behind him....

[Scurrilous]

6. Romney seems to back off adviser’s suggestion he would support Israeli strike against Iran

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"Mitt Romney said Sunday that he respects the right of Israel to defend itself, but seemed to back off a foreign policy adviser’s earlier suggestion that he would support a unilateral military strike by Israel against Iran to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapon capability.

The presumptive Republican nominee began a series of meetings with top Israeli officials here Sunday and plans to deliver a muscular defense of Israel in a formal speech delivered near Jerusalem’s Old City.

Asked during an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” whether he would “support Israel’s bombing of Iran,” Romney responded, “That would be statement which would be of a different nature than what our nation has already expressed with regard to Iran. What we have said and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that’s available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state...

“If all those options fail, then we do have other options and we don’t take those other options off the table. But that’s as far as I’m willing to go in terms of discussing this matter while on foreign soil.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-would-support-israeli-attack-on-iran-to-stop-nuclear-weapon-capability-adviser-says/2012/07/29/gJQA34luHX_story.html