Are you referring to SA's post that he will start a war with Iran ? IMO Romney has made it clear if elected he will start a war with Iran
http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...docId=CNG.157e26ff13a2c531647ebb82af797d37.91
Romney says 'prepare for war' against Iran
WASHINGTON â Accusing President Barack Obama of naivete on Iran, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney promised Thursday that if elected president he would "prepare for war" with the Islamic republic.
In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal, Romney said he would back up US diplomacy "with a very real and very credible military option," deploying carrier battle groups to the Gulf and boosting military aid to Israel.
"These actions will send an unequivocal signal to Iran that the United States, acting in concert with allies, will never permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons," he wrote.
Romney, a frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, keyed his column to a International Atomic Energy Agency report this week citing "credible evidence" that Iran had worked on a nuclear explosive device.
Iran denies it is developing nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear program is for generating electricity, but the report has prompted calls in the West for tougher UN sanctions and demands by Israel for world to act to prevent Tehran for getting nuclear weapons.
Romney said the United States "needs a very different policy."
"'Si vis pacem, para bellum.' That is a Latin phrase, but the ayatollahs will have no trouble understanding its meaning from a Romney administration: If you want peace, prepare for war," he said.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Glob...ran-Where-Mitt-Romney-and-Rick-Santorum-stand
Bomb Iran? Where Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum stand.
The two strongest Republican candidates to emerge from the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, both are open to bombing Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum emerged as the twin frontrunners after the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, and this is likely to have interesting reverberations for Iran.
Why Iran? Because both former Gov. Romney and former Sen. Santorum are hard critics of the Obama administrationâs handling of the country that Romney sees as Americaâs largest threat. Both men have said they would bomb Iran if that country developed nuclear weapons. Both believe that Obamaâs efforts to negotiate with Iran sends a signal of weakness. And if one of these men emerges as the Republican candidate to go up against Obama, the Republican party will attempt to play to what it regards as its strength â security and foreign policy â and the rhetoric against Iran is only likely to grow sharper.
Obamaâs approach to Iran, of course, is shaped by his campaign promise to abandon the unilateralism of the Bush administration, and to work closely with Americaâs allies to deal with mutual threats, using methods short of war. While the US took the lead in dealing with supposed threats in Iraq â launching the war promising to go after Saddam Husseinâs alleged âweapons of mass destructionâ â Europe has taken the lead in dealing with Iran through âcritical dialogueâ and reminding Iran of its promises to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Most of the Republican candidates portray this carrot-and-stick approach as weakness, and call for military options.
http://milwaukeestory.com/index.php...licy-advisers-served-under-george-w-bush-360/
23 of Romneyâs foreign policy advisers served under George W Bush
George W Bush has not been a central topic in this GOP election cycle but significant elements of his administration are lurking in the shadows of the Romney campaign. Twenty three of Romney's senior advisers served under Bush in some capacity, several serving in key roles in the administration. Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security from 2005-2009, a champion of full body scanners and TSA security techniques, is one of the most recognizable names on Romney's national security team. Another notable name is Michale Hayden, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from '99-'05 and then Director of the CIA from 2006-'09. Then there is the notorious Cofer Black, former Vice Chairman of Blackwater, who served the Bush administration as the State Department's Ambassador-at-large for counter terrorism from 2002-04.
There are also lesser known names on Romney's list that played key roles in the Bush Administration. Meghan O'Sullivan was deputy national security adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan under George W Bush. According to Bob Woodward's book State of Denial O'Sullivan was the original champion of the surge strategy in Iraq. She also served on the political front in Iraq in the early days of the war.
