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Potential GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum: WikiLeaks Founder A Terrorist

Kevin Douglas Grant |
November 30, 2010 | 11:18 a.m. PST

Executive Editor

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, the man whose last name became a sexual neologism at the hands of sex columnist Dan Savage for his staunchly anti-gay views, thinks WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a terrorist.

He told a group of New Hampshire voters Tuesday: "We haven't gone after this guy, we haven't tried to prosecute him, we haven't gotten our allies to go out and lock this guy up and bring him up on terrorism charges. What he's doing is terrorism, in my opinion."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be tempted to waterboard the hell out of Assange right now for the embarrassment his site has caused for the American diplomatic corps (and others around the world).

But so far she is addressing the Australian rabblerouser diplomatically for his role in Cablegate, saying Monday: "The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems."

Santorum has Presidential aspirations for 2012, and looks to be making foreign policy one of the keystones of his exploratory phase.  The very conservative Santorum has a history of speaking critically about Islam, illegal immigration, homosexuality and abortion.  He also advocates the teaching of "intelligent design" in public schools.

For his anti-gay rhetoric, Santorum was defined as "that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex" by sex columnist Savage in 2003.

 

 

 

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