Wow.
You have completely rewritten what actually happened. There's not even one shred of truth or fact in your post.
HOW do rw's DO that?
He denounced the statement for which he held the administration responsible.
And yes the statement was released before the attack, which means both the embassy and the Egyptian government knew it was coming, and of course all of that's been confirmed.
What's inaccurate? Be specific.
"The Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,"
Fact-checking Romney's statements on Libya attacks - San Jose Mercury News
That was Romney's first statement to the press regarding the "response". The "response" he was referring to came from the consolate and was issued prior to any attacks. It was meant to quell anger over the video that had gone viral on youtube. The attack itself, doesn't seem to have come from protestors..and may have been an Al Qaeda operation meant to address a drone attack that killed one of their leaders in Libya.
By the way..this sort of thing is nothing new. Bush went far beyond "apologizing" during the surge. Part of tactics they used..was borrowed from a template learned from COIN in Vietnam. What they did was actively recruit former Al Qaeda fighters and enemies in Iraq to help the effort to quell the violence. They were called the "Sons of Iraq". I don't recall either party condemning that activity when it was on going.
Blah . . . blah . . . blah . . . blah. Huh? Incoherent drivel.
We don't care about the rationalization for the statement. It was disgraceful. Inexcusable. Unacceptable.
Period.
Statements? The only statement that needed to be made was from the White House telling the Egyptian government that it had better damn well make sure that our embassy and its personnel are protected from assault.
Period.
We know the embassy's *****-ass statement was issued before the attack, by some reports up to six hours before!
That means both the embassy and the Egyptian government knew it was coming.
What the hell happened?
How did this breach of security happen?
Romney's initial remarks went to the Cairo embassy's statement. He denounced it, and hours passed before the Administration—what the hell was it doing?—distanced itself from the statement, essentially saying the same thing as Romney: that the statement was inappropriate and did not reflect America's values.
All Romney did in addition to denouncing the statement was to hold the Administration responsible for it, which, politically speaking, was unnecessary.
The president
is responsible for what our embassies say! Albeit, that's not the same thing as the White House actually ordering or directing the embassy to make that statement. But Romney didn't say the White House did that. He merely said the White House was responsible for that statement given that (1) the Administration did not address the inappropriateness of it for hours and (2) Obama's foreign policy of appeasement and apology is essentially the impetus of it.
That punk apologized for America on foreign soil, accusing his own country of arrogance and torture (waterboarding), as if we were not at war with barbarous Islamic fascists.
The timing of the embassy's statement is irrelevant, except that it was issued before. For obvious reasons that fly right over the heads of some, that's even more damning! 9/11! The video was just an excuse. The instigators, the leaders, the organizers of this attack merely used the video to fire up the mob! Hell, most of those idiots think that the U.S. government is directly reasonable for the video or that the U.S. government has a responsibility to prevent its release. LOL! Bumpkins. Idiots. Know-nothing rabble.
The White House and the leftist mainstream media in the bag for Obama is merely trying to confound the matter, misdirect and change the nature of what Romney was getting at, however politically inadvisable it was at this time.
I would that Romney had simply denounced the statement and left the rest for the debates. You see, I knew the leftist media would pull this crap and that a handful of stupid, kiss-ass, beltway "conservatives" could always be found to undermine the Republican candidate's point.
And what has been the result. Clinton, the very next day, essentially reiterates the same nonsense about the video, and the Administration's press secretary claims this worldwide calamity is due to the video, not to any failings of American foreign policy. Right. Of course not.
The attack on the Libyan consulate is another matter altogether.
