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DNC: Romney's 'Jihad' Ad Shows Lack of Foreign Policy Credentials

 
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DNC: Romney's 'Jihad' Ad Shows Lack of Foreign Policy Credentials
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being
issued by the Democratic National Committee:

As part of his multimillion-dollar marketing campaign, smooth talking
Mitt Romney today rolled out a new ad, entitled "Jihad," that aims to
distract from his complete lack of foreign policy credentials and litany of
blunders on international affairs. Unfortunately for Romney, all the ad
does is expose his superficial knowledge of the threat facing our country
and highlight the fact that a Romney presidency would offer four more years
of President Bush's failed foreign policy.

In the ad, Romney completely ignores the number one foreign policy
issue in this campaign: the war in Iraq. Worse, Romney reiterates his
misleading rhetoric about "violent, radical Islamic fundamentalism,"
declaring that "their goal is to unite the world under a single Jihadist
caliphate" and "collapse freedom-loving nations like us." But, as critics
have pointed out, Romney's ill-informed and dangerously oversimplified
outline of the threat is "misleading" and completely ignores the reality on
the ground in Iraq and in the Muslim world, including the facts that Shias
and Sunnis are "fighting a civil war in Iraq" and many of the groups Romney
typically cites "have not targeted the United States." [Boston Globe,
5/27/07; Texas Monthly, 8/07] Romney's rhetoric may not match reality, but
it parallels President Bush's misleading efforts to generate support for
his failed Iraq strategy by claiming the war is part of a broader plan to
"establish a violent political utopia across the Middle East, which they
call caliphate." [Remarks by President Bush, 9/5/06]

Romney's latest demonstration of his ignorance of the terrorist threat
follows his claim earlier this year that catching Osama bin Laden is
"insignificant," and "not worth moving Heaven and Earth" for. [Associated
Press, 4/26/2007]

"Mitt Romney's new ad shows that he still has no plan for Iraq, no plan
for capturing Osama bin Laden, and no understanding of the threat facing
our country," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera.
"Echoing President Bush's misleading rhetoric may help him with the right
wing of the Republican Party, but if Romney doesn't understand the threat,
how can he expect the American people to trust him with our national
security?"

On National Security, Romney Still Doesn't Get It
"To the world you might be one person, but to one
person you just might be the world"





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