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Mitt Romney mocks Obama's AIPAC speech
By Maeve Reston
March 4, 2012, 12:59 p.m.
Reporting from Snellville, Ga.—
Shortly after President Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Mitt Romney argued in Georgia that the president's approach to Iran had failed the American people and made the nation less secure.
"If Barack Obama is reelected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change," Romney told a crowd of more than a 1,000 people at a pancake breakfast that his campaign hosted in this Altanta suburb.
Romney, who flew to Georgia from Ohio and was headed to Tennessee, mocked Obama's speech earlier on Sunday at AIPAC, accusing the president of doing little to address Iran's nuclear threat and charging that he had missed an opportunity when dissidents took the streets in Tehran.
When an 11-year-old boy asked the candidate how he would keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Romney said Obama had not imposed "crippling sanctions against Iran." "He's also failed to communicate that military options are on the table and in fact in our hand, and that it's unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-iran-aipac-reaction-20120304,0,4149568.story?track=rss
March 4, 2012, 12:59 p.m.
Reporting from Snellville, Ga.—
Shortly after President Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Mitt Romney argued in Georgia that the president's approach to Iran had failed the American people and made the nation less secure.
"If Barack Obama is reelected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change," Romney told a crowd of more than a 1,000 people at a pancake breakfast that his campaign hosted in this Altanta suburb.
Romney, who flew to Georgia from Ohio and was headed to Tennessee, mocked Obama's speech earlier on Sunday at AIPAC, accusing the president of doing little to address Iran's nuclear threat and charging that he had missed an opportunity when dissidents took the streets in Tehran.
When an 11-year-old boy asked the candidate how he would keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Romney said Obama had not imposed "crippling sanctions against Iran." "He's also failed to communicate that military options are on the table and in fact in our hand, and that it's unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-iran-aipac-reaction-20120304,0,4149568.story?track=rss
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