How would Romney know what war smells like?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

Describing his experience driving on a highway a few hundred yards from the Pentagon on 9/11 after it was attacked, Romney almost sounded like an experienced war veteran recounting his brush with combat (at about 1:20): "I could smell burning fuel, and concrete, and steel. It was a smell of war." It sounded like he'd smelled war before. Like George Bush's hilarious statements about knowing what combat was like, is Mitt trying to give himself a war record?

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Or has he just been watching too many movies?

[jberryhill]

1. Ah, that "new war" smell

Nothing like the smell of a brand new war.

[Whisp]

2. the smell of war to Romney and that kind is the smell of money. n/t

[Brickbat]

3. He looks like he's lying when he says that. What an ass.

[Blue Idaho]

4. He hired a guy to go smell a war for him once.

He got a nice Powerpoint briefing later including a few bar charts and a Venn diagram.

[former-republican]

5. what a jackass

[left on green only]

6. I wonder who wrote that stuff for him to say? N/T

[Tx4obama]

7. His advisers should have told him not to say what he did,

due to the fact that there were bodies burning in the Pentagon building.

I heard Romney say what he did on TV live and the first thing I thought of was the 'people' in the burning building.

Mitt has no sense of decency at all.

[napkinz]

8. Mitt could have served but something suddenly came up

[renate]

9. oh, Mitt, Mitt, Mitt...

... please don't ever stop talking.

In all seriousness, I cannot BELIEVE he said that. What a slap in the face to anyone who's actually been in a war.

[thelordofhell]

10. So let me get this straight..........

He was supposed to be in New York, but he instead was in DC, in an office that apparently had a small TV on the desk for him to watch. Then he got in a car and drove (yeah, right) past the Pentagon and traffic was stopped and he smelled the carnage?? What bullshit is this?? Where was he going?? By then you couldn't fly anywhere unless you were related to Bin Laden.

This is more lying crap from Mr. Shit Onmey

[TeamPooka]

11. To Mitt Romney the smell of war is some brie and a warm croissant...

I love the smell of France in the morning.
It smells like draft dodging!
HUA!