[ari-freedom]

I also find it hard to believe that Romney would stay the course when things were not so good for us. Yeah of course he's for the surge now. We're winning now! But what would he say when things are not so good? When polls are showing low approval ratings, like with Bush?

Would he provide leadership when times are rough?

This interview from 2006 may provide some clues

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18683



One of the people who is considering a run, Sen. [John] McCain, has advocated sending up to 30,000 more troops to help stabilize Iraq. Do you support sending more troops into that country?

The process that is being pursued right now is that the President and his senior staff are meeting with generals and officials at the front in the theater and finding out their perspectives. That’s something you have to do, along with meeting with al-Maliki to determine where they are and where they can be.

I’m not going to weigh in. I’m still a governor. I’m not running for national office at this stage. I’m not going to weigh in on specific tactics about whether we should go from 140,000 to 170,000. That’s something I expect the President to decide over the next couple of weeks and announce that to the nation. I want to hear what he has to say.

But fundamentally, we’re talking about a very different approach than the Iraqi Study Group concluded. Their approach suggested somehow we would pull out in a setting that was less than victorious. We really do need to make sure we stabilize the nation to the extent humanly possible so that Iraq cannot be torn apart by its neighbors and so that a sectarian disaster does not ensue.

[ImphClinton]

Did you read what you Posted??? Or am I misunderstading you?

I’m not going to weigh in. I’m still a governor. I’m not running for national office at this stage. ... I expect the President to decide over the next couple of weeks and announce that to the nation. I want to hear what he has to say.

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We really do need to make sure we stabilize the nation to the extent humanly possible so that Iraq cannot be torn apart by its neighbors and so that a sectarian disaster does not ensue.

In the next two weeks he decided to run and also swore support for the Surge, hours before the President announced it.

This totally supports Romney fully supporting the Surge and NOT supporting at any time pulling out.

You would have to be a Democrat to twist this to such an extent that merely mentioning conclusions of the Iraq Study group means you support their idiotic conclusions. He clearly said he didn't.