Mitt proves to be uninformed or he is lying
The very first question of the “debate” went to Mitt Romney. Not only did he fumble the ball. He wasn’t even suited out to play the right game. Here’s the question and answer:
From CNN.com – TOM FAHEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER: Thanks, Wolf.
Governor Romney, I wanted to start by asking you a question on which every American has formed an opinion.
We have lost 3,400 troops, civilian casualties are even higher, and the Iraqi government does not appear ready to provide for the security of its own country. Knowing everything you know right now, was it a mistake for us to invade Iraq?
MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that — or a null set — that is that if you’re saying let’s turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in.
But he didn’t do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in.
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WRONG. Nothing could be MORE wrong. Saddam did let the inspectors in before our 2003 invasion of Iraq. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said as much. Here’s a January 2003 interview with Paula Zahn -
ZAHN: I want to close this morning by talking about Iraq. Yesterday, you suggested that samples retrieved by weapons inspectors in Iraq so far have provided no — quote — “smoking gun.” Does that mean you believe up until this point, the Iraqis have been in compliance? Or are they just not showing your inspectors things that aren’t on the declaration?
ELBARADEI: Well, what I believe, Paula, that we haven’t seen anything to show that Iraq has revived its nuclear weapons program. But whether I’m saying that they do not have a weapons program? No. I’m saying that so far, we haven’t seen a smoking gun, but we still have a lot of work to do before we can come to a conclusion that Iraq is clean. That we would still require (ph) at least a few months from now.
The information on their inspections can easily be found on the IAEA web site. All of the documents are there. Han Blix in his book, Disarming Iraq, clearly states that they found no evidence of WMD in Iraq during these 2002 and 2003 inspection. Nothing. None. Nada.
So what was Mitt Romney talking about? Was he being intentionally misleading? (This is what we call lying in the South.) Romney’s lack of candor or lack of information should disqualify him from the race. He didn’t misspeak. He said what he meant. He practiced that null set line. You can tell. He wanted to show the voters that he was in command of the subject and nothing could be further from the truth.
