Mitt Romney Gets Heckled When He Tries to Speak about Libya
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself being heckled when speaking in Virginia about the recent crisis in Libya. Romney was accused by the heckler of seeking to politicize the death of the Libyan Ambassador in response to protests that have erupted throughout the Middle East. Some on the far right have used the incident as an opportunity to attach President Obama, accusing him to be weak on foreign policy. Others are saying that the incident is a reminder that the US needs to have a strong military to protect itself from those who disagree with American foreign policy.
Here is a transcript of the exchange that took place in Virginia.
Mitt Romney: “But I also recognize that right now we’re in mourning. We’ve lost four of our diplomats across the world. We’re thinking about their families and those that they’ve left behind. What a tragedy — “
Protester: “Why are you politicizing Libya?”
Mitt Romney: “— to lose such a wonderful, wonderful, uh — “
Protester: “Why are you politicizing Libya?”
Mitt Romney: ” — wonderful people that have been so wonderful, and appreciate their service to the country.”
Crowd: “Mitt! Mitt! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
Mitt Romney: “And so, I would offer a moment of silence, but one gentleman doesn’t want to be silent, so we’re going to keep — we’re going to keep on going.”
Romney’s supporters helped to drown out the heckler’s voice, but there are many voices that are questioning the Romney approach to foreign policy.
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There’s no comments to be said about this piece since the man constantly keeps putting his foot in his mouth. So all anybody hears is mumbling from a rich man who lives in a bubble. OBAMA 2012!
Willard “Mitt” Romney you are a disgrace to the American people. There is no time that you can relate to the people. You not onle embrass yourself when you were invited to a grathering for tea and cookies when you asked if the cookies were from the 7/11 store. Why couldn’t you just said thank you so much for your hospitality. Then you took a trip to Europe and al least you did not put your foot in your mouth. You put the mouth in your foot which is much more difficult than the other way around.
Willard you have my vote. I vote that you leave the country and go where you have hidden your money from the internal revenue,
Mitt Romney is an embrassment to the USA. Everytime he opens his mouth, he puts his foot in it. He has no idea how most working people live in the USA. He knows nothing about Foreign Policy. There is noting worse than a rich white man with no class. To top it off…..he cares so little for the USA that he hides his money off shore to keep from paying his fair share of taxes. No mitt, not in my lifetime will you be president!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HLXNC46Xw
Published on Sep 12, 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel
While the establishment media has engaged in a concerted effort to bury the fact that today’s attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was carried out by the same extremists the U.S. armed during the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya’s Ambassador to Washington Ali Aujali launched his own lame attempt to shift the blame, ludicrously pointing the finger at Gaddafi loyalists.
“We know that Qaddafi’s associates are in Libya. Of course, they took this chance to infiltrate among the people,” Aujali said in today in an interview.
“His claim contradicts most reports, which place the blame on radical Islamist groups that claimed to be reacting to an obscure American film they viewed as insulting to Islam. Aujali said that the Libyan government has intelligence that unspecified Qaddafi forces were involved,” reports Foreign Policy.
For Aujiali to claim that the attack, which took place in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, was the work of Gaddafi loyalists, is a plainly absurd trick to manipulate the narrative behind the incident in a desperate bid to save face.
As Tony Cartalucci points out, the media’s failure to admit that the terrorists behind the attack are the same gangs of thugs armed and empowered by NATO represents “an attempt by the West to reestablish the perception that the US and Israel are at war with sectarian extremists, not partnered with them.”
Every indication points to the fact that the attack was carried out by Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists whom NATO supported during last year’s bombardment of Libya, the same bands of Salafists who have destroyed mosques and shrines across Libya and whose goal is to impose sharia law.
.. by Paul Joseph Watson
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I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return
http://blackagendareport.com/print/content/butchering-gaddafi-america%E2%80%99s-crime
The Butchering of Gaddafi Is America’s Crime
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared like ghoulish despots at a Roman Coliseum, reveling in their Libyan gladiators’ butchery.”
Last week the whole world saw, and every decent soul recoiled, at the true face of NATO’s answer to the Arab Spring. An elderly, helpless prisoner struggled to maintain his dignity in a screaming swirl of savages, one of whom thrusts a knife [4] up his r****m. These are Europe and America’s jihadis in the flesh. In a few minutes of joyously recorded b********y, the rabid pack undid every carefully packaged image of NATO’s “humanitarian” project in North Africa – a horror and revelation indelibly imprinted on the global consciousness by the brutes’ own cell phones.
Nearly eight months of incessant bombing by the air forces of nations that account for 70 percent of the world’s weapons spending, all culminating in the gang-bang slaughter of Moammar Gaddafi, his son Mutassim and his military chief of staff, outside Sirte. The NATO-armed bands then displayed the battered corpses for days in Misurata – the city that had earlier made good on its vow to “purge Black skin” through the massacre and dispersal of 30,000 darker residents of nearby Tawurgha – before disposing of the bodies in an unknown location.
Obama did the wrong thing, when he double crossed America’s most valuable ally in the Muslim world, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. If Obama didn’t begin the recolonization of Libya and the whole of Africa last year, the Libyan ambassador wouldn’t have been last week.
You’re a bad leader, if the same group of terrorists that you employed last year, are murdering you ambassador this year. Obama is a bad leader. He has no guts to make executive decisions.
CNN reports, Colonel Gaddafi is bombing non-violent protestor with planes from the air. Later comes out, this didn’t happen. CNN reports, that because Colonel Gaddafi has no domestic support, he has employed Black mercenary soldiers to brutalize the non-violent protestors. One month later, Human Rights Watch goes to Benghazi to interview the “Black mercenaries”; not one Black mercenary can be found in custody. Turns out there’s no Black mercenary soldiers. CNN reports, Colonel Gaddafi has drugged the Libyan soldiers with v****a, to enhance a policy of mass rape against non-violent female demonstrators. One month later, Amnesty International goes to Benghazi to interview rape victims. Not one rape victim to interview. So they decide to interview doctors at the hospitals regarding the situation. They can’t find one doctor who says he treated any rape victims. No mass rapes by Libyan soldiers.
What is the definition of a weak leader?
The president that make executive decision based upon the news reports from CNN.
delete. corrected remarks below.
Obama did the wrong thing, when he double crossed America’s most valuable ally in the Muslim world, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. If Obama didn’t begin the recolonization of Libya and the whole of Africa last year, the Libyan ambassador wouldn’t have been killed last week.
You’re a bad leader, if the same group of terrorists that you employed last year, are murdering your ambassador this year. Obama is a bad leader. He has no guts to make executive decisions.
CNN reports, Colonel Gaddafi is bombing non-violent protestors with planes from the air. Later comes out, this didn’t happen. CNN reports, that because Colonel Gaddafi has no domestic support, he has employed Black mercenary soldiers to brutalize the non-violent protestors. One month later, Human Rights Watch goes to Benghazi to interview the “Black mercenaries”; not one Black mercenary can be found in custody. Turns out there’s no Black mercenary soldiers. CNN reports, Colonel Gaddafi has drugged the Libyan soldiers with v****a, to enhance a policy of mass rape against non-violent female demonstrators. One month later, Amnesty International goes to Benghazi to interview rape victims. Not one rape victim to interview. So they decide to interview doctors at the hospitals regarding the situation. They can’t find one doctor who says he’s treated any rape victims. No mass rapes by Libyan soldiers.
What is the definition of a weak leader?
The president that makes executive decision based upon the news reports from CNN.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance & conscientious stupidity.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Why is there no outcry about the exposure of our ambassador in a nearly defenseless Consulate on 9/11 in an area of Libya with virtually no government control, which supplied most of the fighters for Al Qaeda in Iraq…Very disturbing that our President was not holding daily Intelligence briefings where some of these deficiencies may have been uncovered but only reading Staff Reports… With the advantage of 20-20 hindsight, seems detached & passive…Then off to Vegas & Dave Letterman’s Show during the height of the demonstrations… BAD OPTICS!!! WHO IS RUNNING THE SHIP??? What is more important; the campaign or our foreign policy???
Was that film released just before the election knowing what it would do to embarass our president in the middle east?
I am wondering if some rich republican is paying for it….check
Carl Rove
Good point. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Some on the right are saying we need a strong military to keep people overseas from expressing their God-given rights to free will? How ironic. The USA was not appointed by some higher power to rule over the world, WTF? And we should definitely not be in the business of attacking people just because they disagree with us. We’re a communist dictatorship now? If that’s the attitude, you can see what a Romney presidency has in store. Not that that’s going to happen unless the voter suppression and intimidation work. I don’t think it will. They’re starting to convince the old folks that Romney/Ryan are liars who want their social security money. We all know old folks vote and vote huge. Can’t wait for the landslide.
Libya is a foreign policy mistake not a small one but a big one…I don’t know whether any one knows that there are libyan jihadi brigade operating in Syria.