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RE :”In response to anger in Egypt at the video, the Embassy in Cairo issued its statement saying that “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”
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One problem is that the statement came not long before Egyptian protestors stormed the Embassy and some of them made it over a wall and into the compound. An Embassy Twitter post after the assault said its earlier statement “still stands.”

The argument the Dems are using is that this statement was made before the attack in Libya by Cairo embassy officials who were surrounded by a mob and terrified for their lives, not as a response to the attack in Libya which hadnt happened yet.

And they are saying that condemning the statement publicly immediately as suggested would have put the Cairo embassy in danger of ending up like the Libyan embassy did officials dead, not supporting them. (the complication is that there are two embassy's)

Thoughts?

Also, A former military official on FNC said the media should ask Obama if those two dozen marines he is sending to the embassy after the attack have authorization to use deadly force if attacked.

There are many many arguments that can be used here against Obama regarding this and I see them here, but as with other issues Romney is very limited with the ones he can make. The reason why is past statements he made.

I found these quotes :

In that same National Review op-ed in April Romney said he agrees with former Ambassador John Bolton’s assessment that Obama set himself up for “massive strategic failure” by calling for Gadhafi’s removal. And in July, Romney was equally dubious about bringing down Gadhafi, saying “who’s going to own Libya if we get rid of the government there?”

When opposition forces killed the Libyan dictator in October, Romney praised the rebels for taking out “one of the worst actors on the world stage, responsible for terror around the world.”

“The world is a better place with Gadhafi gone,” Romney told reporters at a campaign event in Iowa shortly after Gadhafi was killed. “I think it’s about time.”
Mitt Romney’s Evolving Position On Libya

You see? He kind of warned about this happening but then later got on the other side praising the overthrow and the rebels wanting to be on the 'winning' side. Kind of like Italy in WWI and WWII.