Father Of U.S. Ambassador Killed In Libya Asks Romney to Stop Politicizing the Death of His Son

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The father of former U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, who was killed in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya last month, said that it would be “abhorrent” to politicize his son’s death in the presidential campaign.

The Romney campaign has tried to politicize the incident in an effort to try to chip away at one of President Obama’s strengths: foreign policy. Romney himself has repeatedly attacked Obama and his administration’s response to the Sept. 11 Libya attacks. But Jan Stevens, Chris Stevens’ father, criticized using the issue for political gain and urged patience for full investigation to complete, Bloomberg news reports:

“It would really be abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue,” Jan Stevens, 77, said in a telephone interview from his home in Loomis, California, as he prepares for a memorial service for his son next week.

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Last week, after the mother of a former Navy SEAL who was also killed in the Benghazi attack, asked Romney to stop recounting a meeting he had with her son in his campaign speeches, the Romney campaign complied.

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  • http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/republicans-have-no-shame.html?hp
     
    No Shame..
     
    “It doesn’t take a partisan to draw that conclusion. The ugly truth is that the same people who are accusing the administration of not providing sufficient security for the American consulate in Benghazi have voted to cut the State Department budget, which includes financing for diplomatic security. The most self-righteous critics don’t seem to get the hypocrisy, or maybe they do and figure that if they hurl enough doubts and complaints at the administration, they will deflect attention from their own poor judgments on the State Department’s needs.”