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Ari Fleischer: “If it's good enough for the administration to disown the statement, it's good enough for Mitt Romney to also criticize…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2012
If it's good enough for the administration to disown the statement, it's good enough for Mitt Romney to also criticize the statement. It shouldn't be only one party just to criticize the statement. They both should. That was a terrible statement. It represented American weakness. A retreat on American values.
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Ari Fleischer
Republican · New York

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Fleischer argues that both parties should criticize the embassy's statement, emphasizing that it reflects weakness in American values.

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