Romney Withholds Comment on Killings By American Mercenaries

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gUDwY3ePc18rXfxD59EQvcKtvC3A

Romney Withholds Comment on Killings
By GLEN JOHNSON – 1 day ago

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Monday he was troubled that private security guards working in Iraq for his top counterterrorism adviser have been accused of killing civilians.

But he said he would wait for the results of an investigation before deciding on a response.

Cofer Black, who joined the campaign in April as senior adviser on counterterrorism and national security, also is vice chairman of Blackwater USA, whose workers have been accused of killing up to 11 Iraqi civilians during a Sept. 16 firefight in central Baghdad square.

"I think the allegations are very serious indeed and that there is an investigation which is under way," Romney told reporters in his first public comment on the case. "I don't want to prejudge what will happen from the investigation, but if the investigations go through in a legitimate and appropriate way, then I would expect an appropriate response."

[shain from kane]

1. "...then I would expect an appropriate response." The man with two brains? n/t

[chelsea0011]

2. It will be the same as his illegal alien working his lawn response.

Which was, it was someone else's responsibility to know that.

[tanyev]

3. How presidential.

Sounds like a more articulate version of Bush weaseling his way out of questions about the leak of Valerie Plame's identity.

[Donnachaidh]

4. another jackbooted COWARD

Yeah, Mitt der Twit has to wait for orders from his party. :puke:

[Beaverhausen]

5. "ongoing investigation" - sounds like the * folks during the Plame investigation

he eventually won't do/say a thing about it.