Romney looks to Israel speech to salvage London shambles

Source: The Telegraph

Mitt Romney will this weekend threaten war on Iran if he is elected president, as he tries to recover from accusations that he embarrassed America with his calamitous visit to London.
By Jon Swaine in Washington

5:46PM BST 27 Jul 2012

The Republican presidential candidate is due to arrive in Israel on Saturday for the second leg of his overseas tour, and will pledge in a speech on Sunday to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon with crippling sanctions or force if required.

He describes a nuclear-armed Iran as "the greatest threat to the world" and has struck a more bellicose tone than Barack Obama, telling Tehran: "If you want peace, prepare for war".

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He will seek to salvage the tour in Jerusalem by demonstrating that he would be a sturdier ally to Israel than Mr Obama, who has not visited since taking office in 2009.

In an interview with an Israeli newspaper this week, he pledged to "treat Israel like the friend and ally it is", adding: "I cannot imagine going to the United Nations, as Obama did, and criticising Israel in front of the world".


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Shades of McCain and all the other neo-cons.



Arab Spring Comment Was a Romney Love Letter to the Israeli Right Wing
by Michael Tomasky Jul 28, 2012 4:45 AM EDT


If you speak neocon, Romney’s Israel Hayom interview was crystal clear: the Islamist-electing Arab Spring was all Obama’s fault—because he failed to promote Bush’s freedom agenda. It’s all a message to Israel, says Michael Tomasky.

Usually Mitt Romney’s problem, as we saw in London, is that he says something obnoxious. But on Friday, to the right-wing Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, owned by Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, he said something that simply made no sense, about George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab Spring. Check that: it made no sense unless you keep up with the tergiversations and vanishing-commissar new versions of history propounded by the neocons and duly followed by Romney. Once again, Herr Mittens proves that there are times when he emphatically does not misspeak—when he’s sucking up to the right.

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