"Of course," Romney told reporters when asked whether he would have ordered killing of the most dreaded terrorist of the world in Pakistan. "Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," 65-year- old Romney said at a campaign event in New Hampshire campaign. Former president Carter is criticised by Republicans as a weak leader during his White House tenure.u00a0

He approved a failed military mission in 1980 to rescue US hostages in Iran. He also was a vocal opponent of the 2003 Iraq war. Romney's remarks after President Barack Obama's campaign released an ad that notes that during his first presidential run, he said in an April 2007 interview that "it's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."