Top Romney Adviser Faults Obama For Murder Of U.S. Ambassador

[cynatnite]

The Romney campaign has escalated their attacks on President Obama following the murder of four Americans, including the ambassador, in Libya. In an interview with the Washington Post, Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser pinned the blame for the attacks squarely on Obama and flatly claimed they would not have happened if Romney had been president:

Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.

“There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation,” Richard Williamson, a top Romney foreign policy adviser, said in an interview. “For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated.”

Previously, Romney, his campaign and the Republican Party accused Obama of “sympathizing” with the terrorists who killed Americans in the hours after the attack. The accusation quickly recieved widespread, bipartisan condemnation. Romney then repeated the charge.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/13/848511/top-romney-adviser-faults-obama-for-murder-of-us-ambassador-claims-romney-would-have-prevented-attack/

[Angry Dragon]

1. This is going to get really mean for the next months

[msongs]

2. maybe Romney is coordinating with al queda et al to defeat obama, eh? nt

[FirstLight]

3. wtf

what kind of fucking altered-reality are these people living in? If they keep doubling down, i don't doubt they are putting Americans overseas and others in harms way... the DHS should maybe have a little chat with this asswipe

[Control-Z]

4. This is bad.

Treasonous, imo. He needs to be stopped. This can't go on. I think he's crossed the line.

And now he'll be receiving intel? Do we, the people, have a say in this? I am actually beginning to worry about the safety of Americans.

To whom would we write to express our concerns? I wonder.

[Emit]

6. He'll be receiving intel?

What did I miss?

[abolugi]

11. yes,unfortunatly he will..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021340196

[Tx4obama]

12. Romney to Begin Receiving Intelligence Briefings. DU LBN link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021340196

[BattyDem]

13. I really wish they could delay giving him the intel

That entire campaign is a loose cannon and there are lives at stake. I don't trust them to have sensitive information!

[Cha]

5. Fucking Assholes. What else can one really

say about them?

[BattyDem]

7. What the hell is wrong with these people??

There are now protests in 11 countries. Tensions are high. It's a delicate situation. WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES AND THEY ARE VULNERABLE SO STOP TRYING TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS AND STFU!!!

[eqfan592]

8. Anybody stupid enough to believe that...

...deserves what they get for voting for such a moron. The rest of us, however....

[TwilightGardener]

9. Something is afoot. The accusations are getting wilder.

Edit to add: somebody told Trump to say that Obama killed "our ambassador". This is getting weird.

[B Calm]

10. They really are trying to lose this election.

I hope they keep saying this anti american shit!

[TeamPooka]

14. according to this logic GWBush is completely responsible for allowing 9/11 to occur on his watch....

which he is but maybe this logic will make the GOP admit it.
Kept us safe my ass.

[ProSense]

15. More on Williamson:

Romney Adviser: Libya Attack Never Would Have Happened Under Romney

Benjy Sarlin

A top foreign policy aide to Mitt Romney suggested Thursday that the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens would never have happened if Romney were president. There wouldn’t even be anti-American protests in the Middle East if Romney were in charge, the aide said.

<...>

He blamed the attack that killed Stevens on Obama’s handling of the region, arguing that the Muslim world would have held the hypothetical Romney administration of 2008-2012 in much greater esteem, which would have prevented violent protests over an anti-Muslim film like the one that led to Stevens’s death.

<...>

Williamson served as an official under President George W. Bush. Numerous deadly attacks on diplomatic compounds in countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Syria took place during the Bush administration. When countries around the world were engulfed in protests over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, the Bush administration condemned the material as “unacceptable” even as it repeated the United States’s dedication to free speech.

The United Nations, where Williamson served as a diplomat, suffered a massive attack in 2003 when a truck bomb in Iraq killed 22 people including the U.N.’s top envoy to the country at the organization’s headquarters. The international body withdrew nearly its entire staff from the country for several years.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-adviser-under-president-romney-libya-attack-never-would-have-happened.php

Another moron. Guess he missed the whole Romneyshambles episode, Mitt's other disastrous moments (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021040432 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021054693) and his latest idiotic statement.

Romney knows he's toast. Idiotic defense alert!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021338307