Romney: Obama "dawdled" on Iran

Mitt Romney

BELMONT, Mass. - Adopting a front-runner's posture, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney responded to President Obama's criticism Tuesday of drumbeating by the Republicans on global hot spots, saying the president wasted valuable time while Iran increased its nuclear arsenal.

Speaking outside a polling place in his hometown of Belmont, Romney said the Obama administration made errors in dealing with Iran, starting with its failure to impose "crippling sanctions" as soon as Obama came into office and to show sufficient support for Iranian dissidents. "He has dawdled for three years to finally get sanctions in place," Romney said.

However, Romney said that he disagreed with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has called for U.S. air strikes against the government of Syria to stop the government's attacks on dissident strongholds.

In a press conference on the day of the GOP's Super Tuesday sweepstakes in 10 primary and caucus states, Obama criticized the Republican field for "the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war."

[nearl451]

One day he shouldn't sleep at night because we're still in Afghanistan....the next day he should have already bommbed Iran?

Make up your pandering mind Mitt.

[nearl451]

What a forceful word: "Dawdled"......gee why not "Loligagged".

Good Ol Milquetoast Mitt.

[outridercastle]

Shortly after Eisenhower's administration ended a group who came to be known as neocons invaded and occupied the Republican Party as Ike had warned they might. The neocons were leaders of mega international corporations with connections in the military might of our country. Their goal was and is to transform the United States into a world wide empire, whatever the cost in dollars or lives, by the use of whatever means are necessary; the rule of law, domestic or international, be damned.

The rhetoric of the Republican candidates and other leaders of the Republican Party indicates positively that if they are not members of the neoconservative cabal they subscribe to its goals.