Dems To Romney: Osama Bin Laden Doesn’t Think Obama Lacks Resolve

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The Democratic National Committee is firing back at Mitt Romney’s speech today, and his accusation that President Obama is weak on foreign policy. On a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon, former DNC Chair (and retired Army Reserve Colonel) Don Fowler, and former Congressman and current Middle East peace think-tanker Robert Wexler (D-FL) dished out a rebuttal.

“I have read Governor Romney’s speech, and it’s a list of generalizations he pretends to make,” said Fowler. “But we all know that what he says is not always what he does.”

Fowler also took issues with Romney’s contention that Obama lacks “resolve” on national security: “I doubt that al-Qaeda, or Osama bin Laden, questions President Obama’s resolve.”

Fowler also explained the changes to the military structure that have taken place under the Obama administration.

“As you know, President Obama, with Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, conducted a comprehensive review of America’s military strength and the balance between the various services and our commitments around the world,” said Fowler. “And they have tailored a troop structure and a weapons structure that is specifically suited to the 21st century.

“I don’t think anyone in America could legitimately question the authority, the reliability and the patriotism of Admiral Mullen and Secretary Gates. And President Obama has worked hand in glove to construct a strong national defense. He takes second place to no one in his commitment to defend America.

“And Governor Romney just simply is not equipped to speak to these issues as the president is. And besides, if Governor Romney said ‘A’ today, he’d say ‘B’ tomorrow.”

Wexler, for his part, took on Romney’s contention that Obama had shown “ambivalence” in America’s support for Israel.

“There was nothing ambivalent about President Obama when he stood up against the entire world at the United Nations to oppose the Palestinian unilateral effort to declare statehood,” Wexler boasted. “President Obama, acting entirely on behalf of Israel’s interests at the United Nations. There was nothing ambivalent about that, absolutely nothing.

“There was nothing ambivalence about President Obama’s support for Israel when Israel’s embassy was attacked in Cairo, and President Obama has been credited with saving six Israeli lives at the Israeli embassy in Cairo.”

Wexler added: “There was nothing ambivalent about President Obama’s decision — a decision that in effect overturned the Bush administration’s policy — President Obama’s decision to send bunker busting bombs to Israel for the purpose of thwarting Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program — hardly ambivalent. Nothing ambivalent about President Obama sending over 1,000 uniformed American personnel to the port of Haifa more than a year ago, in the largest joint American-Israeli military exercise since the creation of the state of Israel.

Wexler concluded: “There’s been nothing ambivalent about President Obama’s strategic support for the estate of Israel, nothing ambivalence about President Obama’s financial support for israel’s security and well being…So the suggestion that Governor Romney makes defies reality, defies the facts, and needs to be corrected with the truth.”

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