Romney assails Obama on response to embassy attacks, death
By Justin Sink – 09/11/12 10:35 PM ET
After nearly a daylong campaign hiatus in commemoration of 9/11, the fight for the White House resumed as Republican hopeful Mitt Romney issued a strong condemnation of the Obama administration’s response to attacks on the American embassy in Egypt and the American consulate in Libya that left a staff member dead.
“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi,” Romney said in a statement. “It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
The attacks were sparked by anger over an anti-Islam video posted to YouTube in July. The Wall Street Journal reported the film, titled “Innocence of Muslims,” was directed by an Israeli-American real estate developer and promoted by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who had controversially burned copies of the Quaran, resulting in violent protests.
