Posted on 08/02/2007 6:40:41 PM PDT by indcons
Mitt Romney's campaign said Hezbollah was not a proper model for his vision of U.S. diplomacy, addressing a controversy arising from his earlier remarks.
The statement from the campaign for the former Massachusetts governor, a front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential candidacy, came in the wake of a weekend town hall meeting in Iowa in which he cited Hezbollah's social network as a model for reaching hearts and minds.
"Governor Romney believes that bloodthirsty terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas have smothered the progress of the people and nations where they have built their networks, Lebanon serving as an example," spokesman Kevin Madden said. "These terror organizations cannot and should not be allowed to gain an advantage with the citizenry in Muslim nations just because they mask their terror agenda with an offering of some vital services."
Romney had made the comparison in explaining why he would expand on President Bush's AIDS program in Africa, widely regarded as earning goodwill.
"Hezbollah went into southern Lebanon and provided health clinics to some of the people there, and schools. And they built their support there by having done so," Romney said. "That kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world and help people understand that our interest is an interest towards modernity and goodness and freedom for all people in the world."
The National Jewish Democratic Council slammed Romney for those remarks. "Any candidate for President should know that Hezbollah's social programs are inseparably tied to terrorism," it said.
It's foreign policy where I've said numerous times--from December to May on some of these threads--where I feared Mitt's "leadership."
What I said then, I'll say again: If Mitt can't even properly define (or even come close to defining) what historic Christianity is (since his LDS filter distorts it), how is he going to define a Middle Eastern home-grown religion like Islam with all of its political & violent spin-offs?
It has long been known that the money that backs al Qaeda doesn’t come from bin Laden’s fortune. It comes from wealthy donors in oil producing nations that donate to charities located throughout the Middle East. Billions are given. And behind one charity, Islamic group or business is yet another. Some of these millions eventually end up in the hands of the terrorists.
>> Romney said. “That kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world ...
Shameful comments. Prior to this incident, I wouldn’t have ruled out a vote for Romney. That’s certainly not the case now. To cite the deeds of thugs as emblematic gestures the United States should follow is simply ludicrous. The comments are unacceptable and retraction is pointless.
Here’s a euphamism for Romney’s retraction:
Instead of saying “That dog won’t bark”, lets just say that
“That dog won’t get strapped to the station wagon roof.”
Right on. Entire Rep party is suspect to me now for this gaffe from such a frontrunner....it would have been better to let the Dems do it..he should not have beaten them to the punch.
The analogy wasn’t bad, but the headline? Oh, my.
Do you like dogs?
Can you describe the origins of that photograph?
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A shame he backed away, there's truth in what he said.
I recently read a proposal that, rather than provide palestinian aid, we should establish a network of American schools in the West Bank and in Iraq.
Provide breakfast and lunch for the students, as do Hamas and Hizbollah.
Perhaps emphacize secular success, things like a job and a wife and kids and a car and those thinks rather than jihad.
Compete, and see if the kids come.
IMO, not a bad idea, though feasable only in the few places we have the leverage to get it started.
After all, we do allow our Saudi allies to preach jihad in institutions wherever they wish to place them.
Romney is having a bad day.
Now he says if the surge is working, lets get out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPbglD989s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eeyeon08%2Ecom%2F
Unbelievable.
Looks like Hitler and his pet German Shepard, Blondie.
That's a photo by Walter Frentz, "the Eye of the Third Reich". Probably taken at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's secret military HQ in East Prussia.
Thanks. I ask because of the color quality. I was thinking it was one of: doctored, colorized, enhanced, or authentic.
I expect to see only b/w photos from that era.
That photo is very interesting. Hitler is wearing his “Supreme Commander” uniform in that photo. It is not a uniform one sees commonly in photos of that genocidal maniac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPbglD989s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eeyeon08%2Ecom%2F
Unbelievable.
I thought that was how success in Iraq was defined: stand up the Iraqis so we can go home.
What do you propose as the alternative?
It is easy to be generous with others peoples money.
Do *not* vote for Rudy Mc-Romney
They can't beat Hillary anyway.
So, then, I take that comment to mean he approves of my Senator?
I stand by my statement he’s a conservative poseur, this is further proof, and I will not support him anymore then I support Patty.
I expect to see only b/w photos from that era.
That's probably an Agfacolor. The Germans were ahead in color photography.
“Romney had made the comparison in explaining why he would expand on President Bush’s AIDS program in Africa, widely regarded as earning goodwill.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-363663,00.html
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