Ugh...another reason to despise Plastic Mitt. The guy would have gone in to bomb the drone. Never mind finding out where it had landed and whether there would be civillian casualties. Per TPM, his quote on Fox today was:
He (Obama) was extraordinarily weak and timid in a time of … a critical moment. This will have severe implications for us, long term, and it was a terrible mistake on his part. I find it incomprehensible that he didn’t destroy it, or go get it. I think destroying it would have been a good deal easier. Destroy it immediately, or go get it. But the idea of letting it fall into the hands of people who will use it against us, use the intelligence capacity against us, is an extremely enormous mistake on the part of this president.
Disgusting. John McCain, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz must be smiling.
Oh, and let's not forget that Mitt Romney called for regime change in Iran. Per the Guardian:
Mitt Romney, a leading Republican presidential contender, has called for regime change in Iran and said that the US should make clear to Tehran that it is "developing military options".
Romney made the call during a scathing attack on Barack Obama at a Republican Jewish Coalition forum of presidential candidates in which he accused the president of weak support for Israel, of appeasing America's enemies and of setting back peace in the Middle East with his fractious relationship with the Israeli leadership.
Before a hawkish, pro-Israel audience, Romney and another contender, Rick Santorum, dwelt at length on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme and what they characterised as Obama's weak response.
Romney called for "crippling sanctions" against Tehran and for Iran's diplomats and businessmen to be treated as pariahs.
"Ultimately regime change is necessary. We should make it very clear we are developing and have developed military options," he said.