Mitt Romney Sez Hezbollah Style Diplomacy Would Be Good For America

Published: August 1, 2007, 12:02 pm

Tags: election 08, health science, middle east, campaigns elections

No, really…he did. Last weekend Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a town hall meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa. One of the members of the audience asked him if he would commit the money necessary to continue President Bush’s AIDS program in Africa as a way to restore good will toward America. His answer, while not picked up on by the members of the audience, absolutely floored me. He started out by agreeing with the premise of the question, touting America’s health care system — then he dropped this little nugget: Download (59) Play (38) Download (50) Play (24) (thanks to Scarce for the video) Romney: …”Did you notice in Lebanon, what Hezbollah did? Lebanon became a democracy some time ago and while their government was getting underway, Hezbollah went into southern Lebanon and provided health clinics to some of the people there, and schools. And they built their support there by having done so. That

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