Campaign Statements — The Arab Spring
Saturday January 07, 2012
“He has been making mistakes at every turn in Iran, in Egypt, I would argue, Libya, Syria, Israel. All of these places, he has made mistakes on the ground that have shown the people in that region that we are the weak horse…That’s what this administration has done. They did it by withdrawing from Iraq…”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iran | Iraq | Israel/Palestine | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“Afghanistan is a tiny piece of a gigantic mess that is very dangerous. Pakistan is unstable and they probably have between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons. Iran is actively trying to get nuclear weapons. I mean they go out and practice closing the Strait of Hormuz, where one out of every six barrels of oil goes through every day. And if they close the Straits of Hormuz, you have an industrial depression across the planet within 48 hours. You have the Muslim Brotherhood winning the elections in Egypt. The truth is, we don’t know who’s in charge in Libya.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | The Arab Spring | Iran | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“The Iranian people have come to the streets—have taken to the streets repeatedly and still do, in trying to overthrow their government. And we had a president of the United States who stood silently by as thousands were killed on the streets, and did nothing. Did nothing. In fact, he tacitly supported the results of the election. Now Ahmadinejad announced right after the election polls were closed that he won with 60-some percent of the vote and the president of the United States said, well, that sounds like a legitimate election. Obviously a Chicago politician.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iran | Mitt Romney |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“We have a nation, which is intent on becoming nuclear. Iran has pursued their—their ambition without having crippling sanctions against them. The president was silent when over a million voices took to the streets in Iran. Voices he should have stood up for and said, we’re supporting you. And he’s—and he’s failed to put together a plan to show Iran that we have the capacity to remove them militarily from their plans to have nuclear weaponry.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iran | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“Well, I have already called for a overfly zone—no fly zone over Syria already. They are Iran’s partner. They are attached at the hip. And we have to stand firm with our ally in that region, Israel. There needs to be no space between the United States and Israel. And this administration has absolutely bungled.
It is the most muddled foreign policy that I can ever remember in my lifetime whether it was in ‘09 when we had the opportunity either covertly, overtly or other ways of helping the Iranian citizens as they were trying to overthrow that repressive regime, whether it was working with Mubarak, and trying to have a moderate to come in and replace him, whether it was leading from behind, as we have seen in Libya, and now we have seen this president, as Mitt and Newt have both talked about, asking the Iranians to give us back that drone.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iran | Rick Perry | War on Terror |
Wednesday December 07, 2011
“When a group of radicals including the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafi Islamists took the streets in Egypt – against our ally, against our friend who hasn’t attacked us… who isn’t a radical theocrat who wants to control the world – in that case we quickly jumped on board with the radical Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood and threw a friend of the United States and Israel under the bus.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Rick Santorum |
Saturday September 17, 2011
Blamed President Obama for “the hostilities of the Arab spring” and expressed regret that “we saw (Egyptian) President (Hosni) Mubarak fall while President Obama sat on his hands.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Michele Bachmann |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“Our commitment to condemning and confronting terrorism in the world must be matched by an equal commitment to affirm the efforts of oppressed Arab citizens who are taking extraordinary risks to seek true peace, freedom, and democracy. Both in the cases of the Iranian and Syrian popular uprisings, the Obama Administration’s glaring silence has undermined the strength of our commitment to freedom and solidarity with those peoples who are yearning to breathe free. And every terrorist group in the world takes note of that silence – whether Hamas, Hezbollah, or terrorist regimes like Iran.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Newt Gingrich |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“Like Iran, Syria has worked to subvert progress toward stable, democratic governance in Iraq and threatens both Israel and broader regional stability through its support of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas. Syria continues to manipulate Lebanese politics in a manner that is both destabilizing for the region and that threatens Israel’s security interests.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Jon Huntsman | Official Statements |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“Egypt has been a stalwart partner to the United States through its role in combating terrorism and supporting a stable Middle East, and the United States should maintain its policy of aid to Egypt. The United States should support an orderly transition to democratic government managed by the interim military-backed government, which offers the greatest protection against the emergence of a radical Islamic government in that country.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Jon Huntsman | Official Statements |
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