Romney's Flip-Flopping

[Commodore]

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday attacked U.S. President Barack Obama for a "signature failure" to keep some troops in Iraq to prevent the country falling back into sectarian conflict.

Just days after U.S. troops left Iraq, a wave of bombings killed at least 72 people in Baghdad on Thursday. The Shi'ite-led government is engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing Iraq along sectarian and ethnic fault lines.

A consistent front-runner in polls of Republicans, Romney said he feared leaving Iraq without a stabilization force could put the hard-earned successes and victories there at risk.

"I hope that risk is not realized. I hope that we're able to see stability there but the president's failure to secure an agreement and maintain 10,000 to 30,000 troops in Iraq has to be one of his signature failures," he told Reuters.

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it only a few weeks ago that this flip-flopper said that he was all for focusing on the US, and NOT 'building other nations'? Now, he wants an 'Iraq-based US force' to stop Sunnis and Shiites from fighting each other. All paid for by the US tax-payer.

Plus, how can Romney call a pullout that was planned during the Bush administration Obama's failure? Partisan politics: Gotta love it.

 

[warpus]

This "flip-flopper" thing is such a tired soundbite.

 

[JollyRoger]

I consider it a failure that Bain Capital didn't solve the Iraq problem decades ago.

 

[Cutlass]

Republicans are nearly compelled to be chickenhawks these days. Only Paul can get away with not being a rhetorical warrior-king.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I believe the Onion summarizes Romney's situation real well.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/who-is-romney-today,26858/

Critics have long complained that instead of sticking to strong positions on issues such as immigration, federal spending, and health care reform, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has routinely changed his stance to appeal to voters. Here are some key policies on which he has flip-flopped:

• In 1998 Romney said he'd been married to his wife for 29 years, but in a speech just last week he claimed it's been 42 years
• Though he now argues his views have been consistent, in 2002 he stated, "I do admit I like to flip-flop, I just love flip-flopping so much!"
• Said he didn't like eggs but then turned right around and ate half a quiche
• Has made repeated claims on the campaign trail that he is the anti-Romney
• Backtracked from his assertion as Massachusetts governor that poor people were human beings with emotions and feelings
• Stated that he was a die-hard Dockers-Classic-fit-pleated man and was later spotted on the campaign trail in Dockers flat-front straight-fits
• Has been known to tan on one side of his body for a while, then completely turn over and let his other side face the sun
• During the 2008 primaries, he leveled repeated attacks against Sen. John McCain. This year, he has been almost completely silent on McCain
• Renounced his front-runner status in the current presidential campaign to focus on becoming an also-ran

 

[TheMapDownloade]

I consider it a failure that Bain Capital didn't solve the Iraq problem decades ago.

Wolfowitz told us that the Iraqi oil would pay for the liberation. That sure sounds like a leveraged buyout to me...

 

[emzie]

The OP clearly hates America and America's troops

 

[kochman]

Oh man... Romney... why did you have this idea?
Oh, because there was some bombing attacks, and we don't want to see everything we sent our soldiers to fight and die for fall to pieces.

However, unless we keep soldiers there to babysit Iraq indefinitely, the US insistance on keeping the current "Iraq" as one nation was doomed to fail from the get go. Why did we decide we had to enforce the borders of a nation drawn up by the British based on anglocentric ideas/benefits?

I see this is as somewhat of Romney using the occasion to bash Obama, but man... if he is really prepared to do this, I may have to rethink my current support of him, and only him, for the next election.

 

[Antilogic]

Wolfowitz told us that the Iraqi oil would pay for the liberation. That sure sounds like a leveraged buyout to me...

...which people were utterly foolish to believe in the first place, unless they also think the world operates on some kind of pre-industrial colonial mercantilism BS over modern market structures.

 

[amadeus]

"Humanitarian" war from the progressive Romney? No surprise there!

 

[Commodore]

This "flip-flopper" thing is such a tired soundbite.

Yes, but since the Republicans are so keen on using the term on Democrats that I think it's hilarious that it's being turned around on them.

The OP clearly hates America and America's troops

I'm going to assume this is sarcasm, but in case it's not I'll respond with this: Yes, I hate America and it's troops so much that I was one of them for three years and spent a year fighting for them in Iraq. That's pure hatred for one's country right there.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a Democrat, I have a strong dislike for them. However, my dislike for the Republicans is much stronger, so I really love to see them fall on their faces and make fools of themselves.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Kind of a silly meme. Obama and Bush are every bit as bad as Kerry and Romney, but for some reason the labels didn't stick.

 

[GamezRule]

Wouldn't that be Kerry and McCain?

 

[emzie]

Yes, but since the Republicans are so keen on using the term on Democrats that I think it's hilarious that it's being turned around on them.



I'm going to assume this is sarcasm, but in case it's not I'll respond with this: Yes, I hate America and it's troops so much that I was one of them for three years and spent a year fighting for them in Iraq. That's pure hatred for one's country right there.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a Democrat, I have a strong dislike for them. However, my dislike for the Republicans is much stronger, so I really love to see them fall on their faces and make fools of themselves.

It was, and I remembered

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Wouldn't that be Kerry and McCain?

Kerry and Romney are the ones who got tagged with the flip-flopper label.

 

[GamezRule]

I'm fairly certain McCain got it too.