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Mitt Romney Deserves To Lose

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, Libyan militants launched an assault on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya .  The result of this attack led to the death of the U.S. Ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and 3 other Americans at the consulate.  This attack was horrendous and entirely uncalled for, but the comments made by Mitt Romney made it even worse. A nation comes together in a time of crisis and puts politics aside.  This was not the case for the Romney campaign .  Just after the attack took place, Mitt Romney issued a statement. “It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks”. This statement is both unfair and untrue.  The White House issued no such statement sympathizing with the militants that waged the attack.  It was the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that issued the following statement, “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt