Romney: Indict Ahmadinejad For Genocide
CHEROKEE, Iowa - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney hammered Saturday on radical jihadists and Iran’s nuclear potential while campaigning in the Little Sioux River Valley, where residents enjoy rodeos, symphonies and county fairs.
Romney said while visiting the campus of a northwest Iowa community college that the new videotaped message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is nearly impossible for Americans to understand.
“Who can be so deluded as he is?” Romney said.
At the community college, Romney was asked how he would respond to Iran. He said the United States must “tighten the sanctions hard so that the people of Iran understand just what renegades their leaders seem like on the world stage.”
Romney said that response also should include the tightening of diplomatic sanctions and indicting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“I want to indict him for incitation to genocide,” Romney said.
Romney told reporters afterward that bin Laden’s ideas on Americans being coerced into converting to Islam “are not in line with rational thought.”
In the 26-minute video, bin Laden compares the Iraq war to Vietnam, criticizes the Democratic Party for failing to prompt a U.S. pullout from Iraq and encourages Americans to welcome Islam. He does not make any direct warning of an imminent attack.
“The whole radical jihadist movement is extraordinarily misguided and evil and is a form of delusion,” Romney said. “I was, in some respects, thankful that he reminded the people of the world what the face of evil looks like.”
The former Massachusetts governor said he hopes Iran can be persuaded to give up its nuclear ambitions. However, Romney said, if a nuclear weapon from Iran ever found its way “into the hands of terrorists and it’s used, we will not just respond to the terrorist, we will respond to the nation who gave the material to the terrorists.”
“Regardless of how it might be used in the world, we will act,” he said, adding that military action is not just “on the table, it’s in our hand.”
Romney said the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq is working, but many lawmakers are neither listening nor waiting for a report to Congress by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, which is expected to begin Monday.
“Some of these guys are so anxious to declare defeat that they’re not willing to look at the data,” Romney told the crowd of about 130 people. Democrats, Romney said, are saying some “dispiriting, disgraceful, obviously discouraging to our troops.”
Romney also played to social conservatives repeating his condemnation of same-sex marriages.
He said the recent ruling in Polk County, Iowa, which found the state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, was “an attack on the family and on the marriage structure” that points out the need for a federal amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage.
“Civilizations have recognized since the beginning of time … that the ideal setting for raising a child is where there is a mom and a dad,” he said.
(AP)
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[Paraphrased]”Speaking of Osama bin Laden and Ahmadinejad, Romney doesn’t support Same Sex Marriage.” WHAT A BUNCH OF GARBAGE! Who are these reporters writing this BS!?
This stuff pisses me off because I happen to know how Romney feels about, and deals with, our domestic issues ~ such as Same Sex Marriage. He may ask the Legislature to debate an amendment but KNOWS such amendments take a large majority to pass. Also, in his own state, he asked the legislature to put it to a ballot for the voters to decide (referendum).
Romney has never take this into his own hands, only questioned letting the Judiciary take it into theirs. Same sex couples have always had Civil Unions, which Romney supports, but not “Marriage” by any inherent “rights”. Until a majority, of either Congress by a 2/3rds “supermajority” and ratified by 3/4 of the states, or by a referendum (put it to the people by way of the ballot), this will remain a contested issue.
It is almost amusing, if not sad and terrifying, that we tear ourselves apart internally while the jihadists advance on “moral” grounds, using our own internal struggles against us. It is surprising to me that those who advocate the most liberal application of “rights” in America are also those who are almost completely oblivious to the jihadist denial of rights abroad, and advance towards a divided world, based on those same “rights”.
So, in the meantime, let’s write articles that split that hairs, knocking down those like Romney who just may be the best solution for this point in time. He may not be the “best” solution, but he ranks right up there.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:39 pm“I want to indict him for incitation to genocide,” Romney said.
Romney told reporters afterward that bin Laden’s ideas on Americans being coerced into converting to Islam “are not in line with rational thought.”
Sounds good to me. Why not add OBL, the Taliban, Hamas, Hizbolla, JAM, MMA Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, Muslim American Assoc, et al to the list while you’re at it. That would make every Muslim jihadi in the West an indicted cospirator and they could all be arrested, tried and imprisoned or executed.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:57 pmRomney is not at the top of my list (I rather like Hunter),
but I did like this line:
“Regardless of how it might be used in the world, we will act,” he said, adding that military action is not just “on the table, it’s in our hand.”
September 8th, 2007 at 8:34 pmDoesn’t a genocide have to take place before you start indicting people for genocide??
September 24th, 2007 at 12:00 pm