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Perfect description of the neocons/right wing warmongers we have in this forum.
It is hard not to notice, and be disturbed by, the vastly different reactions whenever innocent Americans are killed, as opposed to when Americans are doing the killing of innocents. All the rage and denunciations of these murders in Benghazi are fully justified, but one wishes that even a fraction of that rage would be expressed when the US kills innocent men, women and children in the Muslim world, as it frequently does. Typically, though, those deaths are ignored, or at best justified with amoral bureaucratic phrases ("collateral damage") or self-justifying cliches ("war is hell"), which Americans have been trained to recite.
He doesn't "just nail" anything in that article. He spews the drivvle that lefties like you love to spew, and that is an American life isn't worth more than anyone else's life and we Americans should be crying rivers for the dead Muslims who would KILL YOU if you walked through their streets as you hold up peace symbols and drop daisies on the ground.
Ambassador Stevens and his staff did not deserve to die because of what operations the U.S. military conducted in any Muslim nation.
They did not deserve to die over a schlock piece of film trash that Muslims are using, just as any excuse would do, for justification of their senseless violence in Cairo and Benghazi.
Because, it does not fit the predetermined political narrative of the progressives.
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Originally Posted by wxjay
Why don't people understand that the Romney statement was LAST NIGHT about the very apologetic statement issued from the US Embassy in Cairo? Look, I agree with the sentiment of not launching a political attack over the death of someone. But, the initial Romney campaign response was to this ridiculous PR statement. Timeline is important to consider here.
This morning, the situation has grown much worse, and the White House has now reacted quite swiftly. But the initial response to the storming of the embassy in Cairo was much too late and far too apologetic. And make no mistake - there are more protests in the works today. I pray for the safety of Americans in those countries.
By the way, let's not forget that just last week, the Democrats were touting success (for political gain) on the killing of bin Laden and also for the Arab Spring. The last two days prove to be very strong counterexamples to the results of that 'Arab Spring'.
His campaign isn't being run optimally. He could have done as you say and would be looking good right now.
Still I agree with his statements.
I agree about his campaign. In this economy it should be hard for any incumbent to win (whether I think Presidents have a lot of control over this stuff or not) so it really shouldn't be this close I think. But they've done some boneheaded things, plus I believe the whole running on anger thing is a huge mistake. You can't build a campaign on "I hate Obama". It didn't work with GW, it will not likely work this time either. Even if people are angry they want some hope and optimism mixed in. Reagan was great at that, that's how he built up such a mythology.
Nothing wrong with his statement. The Obama WH first statement yesterday was basically an apology, which is disgraceful.
And certainly, Romney's remarks today were better than Obamas. Obama seemed lifeless, little emotion. Like a third grader reading a report. Hillary's statement was even better than Obamas remarks today. Obama is not a leader, and he demonstrated that again today and yesterday.
It wasn't the official response from the WH. It was from the embassy and was not official.
Ok. I'm not going to argue this point, just want reactions. Romneys statement last night accusing the Obama administration of apologizing to the attackers was repeated today. Do you think this is his way of appeasing the Rep. pundits who say he's not being tough enough? Do you think it was appropriate? Do you think it was a mistake?
Huge mistake.
He used the deaths of US Officials for political gain, and accused Obama for saying things he never said. He actually made his comments before Obama has said anything about the incident. When Obama made his comment, it was the opposite of what Romney had claimed.
So, it was wrong at two levels:
1. It was dishonest
2. He used the deaths of US Officials for political gain, which is horribly low
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