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Klukie

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Mon Oct 15, 2012, 12:16 PM Oct 2012

Mitt Romney's views on preemptive war must be exposed during debate on foreign policy.

Mr. Romney's foreign policy team is stacked with neocons and he is trying to run from their politically unpopular view. He needs to be called out..directly...in the upcoming debates. Joe Biden did a wonderful job in beginning to expose them during the VP debate when he asked what a Romney/Ryan administration would do differently in Iran. This effort needs to continue..in a big, loud way!! Hell...maybe someone should educate the American people about the PNAC in general. Nobody that I have ever mentioned the PNAC to, has known about them. Here is something from the LA times that touches on this....


Romney distances himself from Bush-era neoconservatives

By Paul Richter, Washington Bureau
October 15, 2012, 5:15 a.m.
WASHINGTON — As he seeks to appeal more to moderates, Mitt Romney is putting new distance between his campaign and some prominent Republican allies who are pressing him to adopt the rousing but politically risky foreign policy principles of former President George W. Bush.

The battle to set Romney's foreign policy has raged all year inside his presidential campaign, but has intensified in recent weeks as Republicans have sensed a political opportunity in the Obama administration's shifting characterizations of the terrorist attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

A senior Republican strategist close to the campaign said Romney was groping for a "version 2.0" of the foreign policy of the Bush era, but one that would more resemble President Reagan's in the Cold War. It would seek to assert American leadership and values with a powerful military and bold rhetoric, but "with a more cautious view of where and when we use force."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-foreign-policy-20121015,0,2683558.story

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