Following the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney called on the Libyan people to take up arms and revolt against the longtime dictator. Romney said the former dictator’s removal would make it easy for him to be removed.
This was Romney’s strongest statement yet on the Libyan uprising. He previously expressed support for U.S. involvement in Libya yet attacked President Barack Obama for doing so. In July, Romney criticized Obama’s policy on Libya and said the U.S. should not help remove Gaddafi from power.
At a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Thursday, Romney said changing events in Libya forced him to alter his position on the issue.
“I know I’ve said the U.S. shouldn’t support Gaddafi removal, but that was back when he was still in charge. The fact that he’s no longer in charge, well that changes everything,” Romney said. “I’m calling for his ouster and look, he’s already gone. That’s the kind of bold leadership you can expect from a Mitt Romney administration.”
Romney said he would eventually call on Gaddafi to be charged for crimes against his own people, and for supporting terrorism, but would wait for such charges to actually be filed before demanding them. If Gaddafi is killed, then Romney will call for his execution.
He also called on Libya’s rebel leaders to extradite Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the terrorist behind the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, so he can be tried in the U.S.
Although Romney has criticized the Obama administration for holding terrorist trials in the U.S., he said this case is different because there’s no political advantage to opposing it.
After the fighting in Libya settles down, Romney said it would be a good idea for the Libyan people to become an oil-rich nation with lots of sand and their country should be located in north Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
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