Page 30 - Cheney Administration News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

So says the former bush administration official who is speaking for mr. romney on this subject. during the administration in which that official served there were fatal attacks on u.s. diplomatic sites in places like yemen and syria and pakistan, by some counts there were more attacks on u.s. diplomatic facilities abroad under george w. bush than by any other u.s. president. not to mention 9/11. were those attacks because george w. bush didn't have resolve? when there were terrorist attacks during, say, the reagan administration, say, the horrible beirut bombing in 1983, was that a reflection ...

Real discomfort with both the timing and the substance of mr. romney's remarks. but by yesterday, the shock of what he had said and done eventually, i guess, wore off, and republicans started lining up behind him again. after all, he's running for office, for pete's sake. today on this third day since the first attacks in cairo and benghazi, the argument from mr. romney's defenders went to a whole new place. a whole new place that i'm not sure anybody expected it to go. richard williamson is this guy here, a top romney foreign policy adviser, a veteran of the bush/cheney administration. and co...

And saying that while those outposts were still being attacked. on wednesday lots of people in the republican party expressed real discomfort with both the timing and the substance of mr. romney's remarks. but by yesterday, the shock of what he had said and done eventually, i guess, wore off, and republicans started lining up behind him again. after all, he's running for office, for pete's sake. today on this third day since the first attacks in cairo and benghazi, the argument from mr. romney's defenders went to a whole new place. a whole new place that i'm not sure anybody expected it to go....

>> reporter: there were demonstrations today in nearly 40 cities across the region and beyond. but as bad as it looks, the demonstrations were generally small. but in what will have implications for nbc security worldwide, extremists have found a weak spot to attack a superpower they believe is responsible for an offense against islam. >> that was richard engel, nbc's chief foreign correspondent today reporting from cairo. president obama earlier this week had ordered a detachment of 50 u.s. marines to go shore up security at the american embassy in libya, in tripoli. now the administration sa...

But in what will have implications for nbc security worldwide, extremists have found a weak spot to attack a superpower they believe is responsible for an offense against islam. >> that was richard engel, nbc's chief foreign correspondent today reporting from cairo. president obama earlier this week had ordered a detachment of 50 u.s. marines to go shore up security at the american embassy in libya, in tripoli. now the administration says it's also going to send a similar sized detachment of marines to our embassy in sudan and to our embassy in yemen. the president sent a statement about the d...