Statement BARACK OBAMA, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."ROMNEY (on Obama): It is an extraordinary statement, a disappointing statement. He has now, how many times, three or four, five times, said many things that he must badly recognize as being a huge error, bad misstatements.
I think he's - in some respects, he has shown that he has just not given his words careful enough thought. I think it is dispiriting to our troops.
It is disrespectful of our troops to say such a thing. The only people who say things like that our people on the other side of this issue. (Spin)
HANNITY: He said without preconditions he would meet with people like Kim Jung-il, Ahmadinejad. Then Hillary said that that was naive and irresponsible. And then his response to that was he would bomb an ally, General Musharraf in Pakistan. And he would take away the nuclear deterrent that we have had in this country. And now he makes this. And here's a tough question for you. Does this coupled with these remarks here in your mind say that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States? (lies)
ROMNEY: Well, I don't think the people of America are going to select Barack Obama and I think this is an evidence as to why they should not and cannot.
I did not think they are not going to select Hillary Clinton or John Edwards either because America is not going to turn left. America is not going to say that we're going to abandon our support of our troops.
The comments he's made have gone beyond the idea of look, we have different views about what to do in Iraq. They go to the foundation of whether we support our troops and stand behind our military. What he said in his latest round, I hope he apologizes for and says it was a misstatement.
He has to do that. Otherwise what he's letting stand is a suggestion that somehow our troops are not noble and dignified. It is an outrageous thing and I have to anticipate he's going to retreat from it. (The more I consider this statement the more I say let it stand Obama)
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ROMNEY: Oh no, I think there are people in this country that say, let's close Guantanamo and I think that's a mistake. I think in fact we should keep Guantanamo. The world is not a place empty of evil people. There are evil people. When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the so-called mastermind of 9-11 was captured, he said I'll see you in New York with my lawyers. Instead, he saw GIs and CIA interrogators in Guantanamo and that's as it ought to be. I don't want those people on U.S. soil and claiming certain constitutional rights because they're on U.S. soil. We have a place for these type of people and is Guantanamo and I wouldn't close it down.
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ROMNEY: I meant the other side of the aisle. Democrats have been saying — for instance, Harry Reid said we lost the war, forgetting of course that we knocked down Saddam Hussein and his military. And then when the surge was only days old, he said that the surge failing or had failed. (hey dick head the war is still going on and its as lost as nam)
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ROMNEY: Well first of all, it's not credible because people in this country know that the president cares very deeply about the American people, whether they agree with him or disagree with him. And they also know he loves our troops, that's been evident. So that's not going to stick.But the other thing is Hillary Clinton isn't going to be running against George Bush. She is going to be running against me or one of my Republican friends. And if she is running against me and she wants to talk about health care, I'm happy to talk about our plan that got people insured with private insurance.
HANNITY: It seems like — are you pretty convinced that she is the candidate? And do you agree with Karl Rove, who in the Wall Street Journal, in an interview called her a fatally flawed candidate?
ROMNEY: You know, I think all the Democrats are fatally flawed who are running for president. But I do think she is by far the most likely to get the nomination. I think that shifted pretty dramatically in the past couple of weeks because of the missteps by Barack Obama. I think he has on the foreign affairs side has said things that were just not carefully thought through and that have hurt him pretty badly.
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