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Santorum: ‘If You’re A Thug, Call The U.S. An Oppressor And This President Will Sympathize With You’ | Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (R) backed Mitt Romney’s claims that President Obama’s policies are responsible for the killing of four Americans in Libya. During an interview Wednesday afternoon on the Scott Hennen Show, Santorum charged that Obama has “showed that we’re going to cower to radical Islamists.” “If you’re a thug, you need to just wrap yourself in victimhood and call the United States an oppressor and this president will sympathize with you,” he exclaimed. Listen:

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