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Romney: ISIS 'a cancer that metastasized' under Obama's watch
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/15/15 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 11/15/2015 4:42:55 PM PST by markomalley

Mitt Romney is blaming President Obama for "doing the minimum" to fight the Islamic State.

In an op-ed published Sunday, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate criticized Obama for having said "we have contained" the Islamic State in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos one day before a series of attacks hit Paris, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. Romney said the U.S. needs to "eradicate" the Islamic State, not contain it.

"The president was right when he called the Islamic State a cancer," Romney said, "but it is a cancer that metastasized on his watch. Paris is proof."

The U.S. year-long airstrike campaign has not been sufficient, Romney added, and called for military experts from the U.S. and NATO to create a comprehensive strategy that would incorporate the forces of the Kurds, Turks, Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians.

His remarks come as France launched airstrikes against the Islamic State on Sunday, carried out in coordination with U.S. forces, in retaliation for the terror attacks in Paris that left 127 dead and over 350 injured.

Romney decried the Islamic State's propaganda campaign and urged Muslim nations to come together and "immediately engage in a sustained global campaign to promote tolerance and eschew violence."

Romney also addressed the potential threat of the stream of refugees escaping conflicts in the Middle East, one day after a Greek official announced that a Syrian passport was reportedly found near the body of one of the gunmen responsible for the Paris attacks. A Greek official announced that the passport was processed on a Greek island in March.

"The West must stop the insanity of welcoming hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East without knowing who exactly they are," Romney said.

"Only America can lead this war, and that leadership means being willing to devote whatever resources are required to win — even boots on the ground," Romney continued. "We have the best-equipped and most dedicated military for good reason. The president must stop trying to placate his political base by saying what he won't do and tell Americans what he will do."


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1 posted on 11/15/2015 4:42:55 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Shaddup Mutt, we already know that.


2 posted on 11/15/2015 4:43:54 PM PST by dforest
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To: markomalley
Hey Loser! Shove it!
3 posted on 11/15/2015 4:44:01 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM and Elites want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: markomalley

Heh. I’ve used the “metastasized cancer” metaphor on the forum here for the last two days.


4 posted on 11/15/2015 4:44:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: markomalley

What does Bob Dole think?


5 posted on 11/15/2015 4:45:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: markomalley

What does Bob Dole think?


6 posted on 11/15/2015 4:45:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: markomalley

Well thanks for tanking the election with your liberal bullshit Mitt. If you cared, you’d not have sabotaged conservatives.


7 posted on 11/15/2015 4:46:02 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That his dose of Viagra is due?


8 posted on 11/15/2015 4:46:36 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: markomalley

Obama created ISIS. If we had not removed all troops from Iraq and armed the predecessors of ISIS, they may not exist.


9 posted on 11/15/2015 4:46:56 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: markomalley

You’re right. But Obama won because you grasped defeat from the jaws of victory. Please go away now, Mitt.


10 posted on 11/15/2015 4:47:30 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob Dole thinks Bob Dole!

11 posted on 11/15/2015 4:47:42 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Sooth2222

He ENGINEERED defeat to get Obama re-elected.


12 posted on 11/15/2015 4:48:31 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Sooth2222

You make a true point on that one.


13 posted on 11/15/2015 4:48:35 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: markomalley

He’s in.


14 posted on 11/15/2015 4:50:25 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Jim Noble

Romney was our cancer in 2012


15 posted on 11/15/2015 4:50:45 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: markomalley
So why did Romney write this?

a) He thinks people care what he thinks.

or

b) He is taking the 'draft Romney' crap seriously.

I'm hoping for 'a' and fear 'b'.

16 posted on 11/15/2015 4:51:44 PM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: markomalley

The leftist bastards blamed everything on Bush’s watch, so blame this on 0.


17 posted on 11/15/2015 4:51:50 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: markomalley
I'm starting to think this guy may run. The GOPe is panicking.
18 posted on 11/15/2015 4:52:08 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: markomalley

Too little, too late.

So just shut the hell up Romney.

You should have pointed to failed Romneycare to work to defeat Obamacare. Instead, you let them use Romneycare to force socialist medicine on America.

You had your chance. That chance is gone.


19 posted on 11/15/2015 4:52:16 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: markomalley

Does anyone really care what Romney says. Is anyone more irrelevant or dangerous than him other than Zer0 and Democrat candidates?


20 posted on 11/15/2015 4:52:16 PM PST by Sasparilla
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