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Obama's Apology Tour Was Crafted By Handful Of Radical Advisors
Topic Started: Oct 25 2012, 07:52 AM (254 Views)
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Obama's Apology Tour Was Crafted By Handful Of Radical Advisors

President Obama denies his foreign policy amounts to an "apology tour," but he follows a "doctrine of mea culpa" crafted by a handful of advisers... View Enlarged Image

President Obama indignantly denied Mitt Romney's charge in Monday's final debate that his foreign policy amounts to "an apology tour" around the world.

"This has been probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign," Obama protested. "And every fact-checker and every reporter who's looked at it, governor, has said this is not true."

In fact, the president has followed a "doctrine of mea culpa" crafted by a handful of radical advisers who have urged him to, in so many words, apologize for America's war on terror and nuclear superiority.

• Samantha Power. "U.S. foreign policy has to be rethought," according to Obama's national security adviser for multilateral affairs and human rights. "Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors."

Power has suggested the president literally bow to foreign leaders, as atonement for Americans' "sins" — and that's exactly what he's done.

A former New Republic journalist, Power is also a 9/11 apologist who thinks Islamic fanatics hate America because it backs governments that repress them — such as the Mubarak regime in Cairo.

"It's not a coincidence that all but one of the 9/11 hijackers came not from axis of evil countries but from American allies, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia," she says. Power thinks the 9/11 massacre helped "Americans empathize with the victims of genocide."

She redefines U.S. vital interests to include genocide, poverty and disease, and was the main White House aide agitating for removal of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi on "humanitarian grounds."

Anne-Marie Slaughter. The former State Department policy chief, who last year returned to Princeton University, also has advised the president to apologize for the war on terror.

"The president must ask Americans to acknowledge to ourselves and to the world that we have made serious, even tragic, mistakes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 — in invading Iraq, in condoning torture and flouting international law, and in denying the very existence of global warming," Slaughter said.

Rashad Hussain. The White House adviser-turned Mideast envoy helped Obama kick off his apology tour in 2009 with a remorseful speech to Muslims in Cairo that he helped draft.

In the 6,000-word speech, which never denounced "terrorism," Obama apologized for the war on terror, lamenting "it led us to act contrary to our ideals." He vowed to close Gitmo, the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and take other "concrete actions to change course."

Hussain also helped engineer the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt as Obama's envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a powerful bloc of 57 Muslim governments that some say is a caliphate in the making.

As a Muslim activist, Hussain regularly spoke to Brotherhood front groups and defended convicted terrorists.

"Naturally, you have to worry that he will be the OIC's representative to the U.S. rather than the other way around," said former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.

Since Hussain has advised the president, the Mideast has turned more anti-American and more committed to Israel's destruction. Egypt is buying submarines, remilitarizing the Sinai in violation of the Israeli peace treaty and forming a new alliance with nuclear Iran and Turkey.

Mubarak turned down a nuke deal with Russia. Will the new Muslim Brotherhood regime? It's teaming up with Tehran, which has threatened to wipe Tel Aviv off the map with nuclear missiles.

Meantime, Obama's top nuclear arms negotiator is trying to undermine Israel's nuclear deterrent — along with America's.

Rose Gottemoeller. Echoing the president, the top State official thinks America is a global "bully" and that its nuclear superiority has created a global arms race.

She argues the U.S. must show humility by signing nuclear disarmament treaties and become strategically equal with Russia and China.

Gottemoeller, a longtime Democrat activist, justifies the radical goal of slashing America's nuclear weapons arsenal to "zero" — unilaterally, if necessary — on a Biblical passage: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares." The verse happens to be the same one anti-nuclear protestors recently scrawled on a U.S. nuclear weapons research facility in Tennessee.

Gottemoeller in 2010 told a "social justice" group that it inspired her to work harder to cut both strategic and tactical warheads, along with nuclear attack targets in Russia and China.

She also wants to ban testing of all remaining warheads followed by a ban on fuel production. At the same time, she wants to scrap U.S. missile defense.

Most Cold war babies grew up hating the Soviet Union. Not "Rosie" Gottemoeller. She admired the former communist superpower. Her father told her the Soviets were better at science, so she studied Russian and immersed herself in Soviet propaganda. She's visited Moscow so many times she now considers it her "second home."

"She loves to shmooze the Russians," said national security expert Bill Gertz — and the Chinese, who she's invited back to the nuclear weapons labs. After Gottemoeller kicked open Los Alamos as head of the Clinton Energy Department's national security office, Chinese espionage exploded.

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A new ad from Mitt Romney’s campaign patches together pieces of Romney’s debate defense of his claim that Barack Obama began his presidency on an “apology tour” in the Middle East — leaving out parts that are demonstrably untrue. But even with the benefit of careful editing, Romney’s claim falls short of its billing.

Typically, when we fact-check quotes, it is often a matter of a candidate selectively grabbing bits and pieces of his opponent’s words, leaving out important pieces of context, to create a misleading impression. Here, we have an unusual case of a Romney ad selectively quoting its own candidate to misleading effect.

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Romney: "And then the president began what I’ve called an apology tour of going to various nations in the Middle East and criticizing America. I think they looked at that and saw weakness."


During the debate, but not shown in the ad, Obama fired back, saying that “this notion of me apologizing” has been “probably the biggest whopper that’s been told during the course of this campaign, and every fact-checker and every reporter that’s looked at it, governor, has said this is not true.”

Obama is right about that. As we noted in our fact-check of the debate, we reviewed all of the speeches that Romney cited in his book “No Apology” to back up his claim that Obama went on an “apology tour,” and we concluded that “we didn’t see that any of them rise to the level of an actual apology.” Our fact-checking colleagues at PolitiFact and the Washington Post Fact Checker reached the same conclusion.

Romney went on later in the debate to explain what he meant. Again, the ad shortens his words — conveniently leaving out one grossly inaccurate claim. Here are Romney’s fuller comments at the debate (and again, we have bolded the words left out of the ad).

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Romney: "Mr. President, the reason I call it an apology tour is because you went to the Middle East and you flew to Egypt and to Saudi Arabia and to Turkey and Iraq. And, by the way, you skipped Israel, our closest friend in the region. But you went to the other nations. And by the way, they noticed that you skipped Israel. And then in those nations and on Arabic TV you said that America had been dismissive and derisive. You said that on occasion America had dictated to other nations. Mr. President, America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators."


So the ad leaves out Romney’s claim that while in the Middle East and on Arabic TV, “you said that America had been dismissive and derisive.” And for good reason. As we noted in our debate fact-check, Obama’s “dismissive” and “derisive” comments were not actually made in the Middle East, as Romney said, but rather during a speech Obama gave in Strasbourg, France, in April 2009. Speaking to a European audience, Obama said that among Americans there has been “a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world” and that “there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

As for Romney’s claim that Obama told audiences in the Middle East that America had “dictated to other nations,” the Romney campaign sent us two comments as backup.

The first came during an interview of Obama on Al Arabiya TV on Jan. 27, 2009, shortly after Obama had been inaugurated as president. Obama responded to a question about George Mitchell, then Obama’s personal envoy to the Middle East, and the task of trying to negotiate a cease-fire and ultimately, a lasting peace, between Israelis and Palestinians.

Obama said that with regard to negotiations with Israelis and Palestinians, he told Mitchell to “start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating — in the past on some of these issues –and we don’t always know all the factors that are involved. So let’s listen.”

Obama went on to say that “ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what’s best for them. They’re going to have to make some decisions.”

In this context, it is clear that Obama is not offering some sort of apology for “dictating” to other nations.


The second example cited by the Romney campaign was from remarks Obama made at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago on April 17, 2009.

Obama: While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations; there is simply engagement based on mutual respect and common interests and shared values. So I’m here to launch a new chapter of engagement that will be sustained throughout my administration.

First, and most important, Obama was not addressing an audience in the Middle East, as Romney said in the debate (and even in the shortened version of his comments in the ad). And we stick by our assessment that neither these comments Obama made in Trinidad and Tobago, nor any others cited by Romney in his book, rise to the level of Obama apologizing for America.

– Robert Farley


http://factcheck.org/2012/10/editing-romneys-apology-defense/

So goes the phoney "apology tour" allegations. Another fabrication of the loony right.
The insanity that never ends.
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In fact, the president has followed a "doctrine of mea culpa" crafted by a handful of radical advisers who have urged him to, in so many words, apologize for America's war on terror and nuclear superiority.


What about his advisors?


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Tom,you seem to be under some sort of delusion that proving Bertie's stuff is pure garbage will somehow slow him down.

That's a bad error on your part. Proving him wrong just releases a torrent of BS as he tries to bury the facts in a pile of crap.
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Oct 25 2012, 11:03 PM
Tom,you seem to be under some sort of delusion that proving Bertie's stuff is pure garbage will somehow slow him down.

That's a bad error on your part. Proving him wrong just releases a torrent of BS as he tries to bury the facts in a pile of crap.
bestpost You have to admit, Tom does have patience with those "Challenged".
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In fact, the president has followed a "doctrine of mea culpa" crafted by a handful of radical advisers who have urged him to, in so many words, apologize for America's war on terror and nuclear superiority.


What about his advisors?


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