Think Progress notices something Mitt Romney … er … forgot to mention in his speech last night at AEI, where he laid out his big strategy to win the war on terror: a little place called Iraq.
In the 600-word speech excerpt leaked to reporters today, there is not a single word about Iraq. Romney’s “comprehensive strategy for winning the war on terror” makes zero mention of what Romney claims is the “central front” of this war. (Time magazine reports this month that Romney “never mentions Iraq in his stump speech.”)
This has been a consistent pattern for Romney. In 2005, he dodged questions about Iraq with the excuse that he “wouldn’t presume as a governor to try and weigh in on a matter which is outside gubernatorial turf.” And on The O’Reilly Factor last September, Romney, echoing Britney Spears, seemed to say that whatever President Bush decided was fine with him:
“I wouldn’t presume to present a plan different from that of the President. But I believe he was right to take on the war on terror on an aggressive front rather than a defensive front. We toppled the government … walking away would mean a humanitarian disaster. We’re there and we have a responsibility to finish the job.”
So how long to we have to keep pretending to take a candidate seriously when he refuses to discuss the central national security and foreign policy issue of our time?
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