MR. ROMNEY

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MS. CROWLEY: It — he did in fact, sir…

PRESIDENT OBAMA:Can you say that a little louder, Candy?

(Laughter, applause.)

MS. CROWLEY: He did call it an act of terror. It did as well

take — it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole

idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come

out. You are correct about that.

MR. ROMNEY: This — the administration — the administration

— (applause) — indicated that this was a — a reaction to a

— to a video and was a spontaneous reaction.

MS. CROWLEY: They did.

MR. ROMNEY: It took them a long time to say this was a

terrorist act by a terrorist group and — and to suggest —

am I incorrect in that regard? On Sunday the — your — your

secretary or…

MR. ROMNEY: Excuse me. The ambassador to the United Nations

went on the Sunday television shows and — and spoke about

how this was a spontaneous reaction.

Romney was essentially accusing the president of lying about

his Rose Garden statement. Here’s the critical passage from

his remarks that day:

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation

as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks.  We

mourned with the families who were lost on that day.  I

visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice

in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington

Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit

some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed.  And then last

night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

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Australian shares jumped 1 per cent to a fresh 15-month high.

South Korean shares opened up 0.3 per cent and Japan's Nikkei

average rose 0.9 per cent to its highest in nearly three

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US housing starts surged 15 per cent in September, the

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That lifted Wall Street despite concerns that sluggish world

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According to Thomson Reuters data through Wednesday

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year ago, better than a 2.3 per cent drop forecast earlier.

In Europe, equity markets also rose on Wednesday, continuing

to draw support from hopes that Spain will ask for an

international bailout and ease jitters over the country's

ability to manage its huge debts.

China's third-quarter gross domestic product is due around

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Indeed, while all the materials, experiences, methods, languages, and justifications for "total war" were readily available for Yankees and Confederates alike, Neely insists that they were generally rejected. When, for example, Confederate General Sterling Price rode with his bedraggled troops into Missouri in 1864, he might have expected a taste of the medicine that the grisly fighting between Union soldiers and pro-Confederate guerrillas had produced there: murders, executions, and other atrocities that led Jefferson Davis to complain of the "savage ferocity" of the enemy. Instead Price's raid saw "the return of traditional combat situations." "Union generals fought Confederate generals one way and guerrillas another," Neely observes, arguing against the notion that the brutality of guerrilla warfare in Missouri set the larger direction for "total war."
Around the same time, Union General Philip Sheridan began a campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia that has been likened in its brutality to General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea through Georgia. Aiming to destroy the valley as a "breadbasket" for the Confederacy, Sheridan is supposed to have scorched it. But Neely finds much exaggeration and myth-making in the accounts of Sheridan's campaign. Sheridan, it appears, looked chiefly to eliminate the valley's agricultural surplus, not its basic subsistence; and he ordered that farm dwellings be spared unless the inhabitants were guerrillas, in which case all restraint was to be relaxed. The distinction between "civilized" warfare and "savage" warfare was again in play, and the dynamic of "total war" consequently contained.