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Romney calls for arms for Syrian rebels

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: October 9, 2012 at 5:05 a.m.

EVAN VUCCI
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Mitt Romney arrives Monday to make a foreign-policy speech at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. Romney criticized President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East, saying, among other things, that U.S. troops were pulled out of Afghanistan too soon.

Mitt Romney declared Monday that the U.S. must join other nations in helping arm Syrian rebels to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, casting President Barack Obama’s efforts as weak and part of a broader lack of leadership in the Middle East and around the globe.

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Giving those rebels weapons would end up the same way as what has happened in North Africa, with anti-American Islamic militants in power.

Posted by: Tankersley101

October 9, 2012 at 5:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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