WASHINGTON – Influential Republicans on Wednesday pushed back against the overwhelming perception in the press that Mitt Romney made a significant error in his response to attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya on Tuesday.
“Mitt Romney’s a challenger, and he has every right to criticize that horrendous statement made by our embassy in Egypt. In fact, failure to criticize it would be an omission,” Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post.
“That statement was so horrendously misguided,” Fleischer said, referring to a statement by the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Tuesday. The embassy issued the statement before protesters breached its walls and tore down the U.S. flag, but said after the attack that it still stood.
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