GOP leader: Embassy statement like telling rape victim 'you
asked for it'  Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz), the second-ranking
Republican in the Senate, said Wednesday that a U.S. embassy
statement criticizing an anti-Islam film trailer for fostering
violence was akin to blaming a woman for her rape.  In a scrum
with reporters, Kyl called it “a very bad statement” that “had
to be cleared by somebody” in the State Department. He compared
it to a judge telling a rape victim "you asked for it because of
the way you dressed.”  The Cairo embassy put out the statement
early Tuesday afternoon as hundreds of protesters converged on
the embassy compound to protest a U.S.-made anti-Islam movie
trailer. The protest eventually turned violent, as did a similar
protest in Benghazi, Libya, which left the U.S. ambassador to
that country and three other officials dead.    Sen. Roy Blunt
(R-Mo.) joined Kyl in criticizing the White House for the
statement, which also drew the ire of Republican presidential
nominee Mitt Romney.  "The Whit