Romney: Not Worth Capturing Bin Laden

By: PM
Published On: 4/26/2007 7:30:17 PM

Military and foreign policy expert Mitt Romney --

In the interview, Romney also:

Said the country would be safer by only "a small percentage" and would see "a very insignificant increase in safety" if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person," Romney said. Instead, he said he supports a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement.

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Well, thank god we at least have one quality GOP candidate running -- Jim Gilmore is officially in the race:
http://news.yahoo.co...

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore on Thursday entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination with an Internet-driven announcement he said allows him to talk directly to voters.

"This is going to be something unique in American politics and something I think is the wave of the future, which is the chance to talk directly to the people as we develop the campaign through the Internet," Gilmore said.

Perhaps RKers can come up with a neat list of questions to ask our former governor.

Here's Jim's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.c...


Comments



A cynic would say that Bin Laden is more useful at large (Hugo Estrada - 4/27/2007 7:39:35 AM)
If Bin Laden is captured, then the war on terror would be over in the minds of many Americans because the person responsible for 9-11 would be brought to justice. It gives closure. It would be harder to recall 9-11 as the justification for more wars and military spending.

Furthermore, it is just so hard to capture an individuals...



Generally, silence (PM - 4/27/2007 3:27:42 PM)
TPM Cafe said there was almost no media or right wing blogger response to Romney's statement, althoiugh the NRO's Byron York wrote:  "Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again." http://electioncentr...  One commenter on that blog may have analyzed the non-response correctly: 

On April 27, 2007 - 1:41pm hrebendorf said:

Probably because no one takes ol' Mitt all that seriously. He's got the haircut and the bucks, but he also has a history that will come back to bite him once the campaign season really starts. Add his latest comment to the list. He's unelectable in my opinion. I hope he gets the nomination.



A policy of failure (relawson - 4/27/2007 10:39:29 PM)
I thought George Bush made a promise while standing on the WTC site in front of the world that he was going to bring our attackers to justice!!!

I normally don't use foul language in blogs, but this guy is a total ass-clown.  Justice demands that we apprehend or kill the 9/11 attackers!  What message do we send to other terrorists?  Attack us, hide in a cave, and you will get away with it???

The words of Romney enable the terrorist.  Those are words of defeat.  They come from a party that architected a policy of failure.  Shame on them all!