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Rudy Giuliani: His War-on-Terror Credentials are Padded by Bullshit

Posted by Pete Kotz on Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 5:37 PM

Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is campaigning for president by evoking that visual at every campaign stop, and he apparently believes it's a picture worth thousands of nights in the White House. Giuliani has been leading the Republican pack for seven months, and predictions that the party's evangelicals would turn on him have so far proven hollow. The religious right appears as gripped by the Giuliani story as the rest of the country. Giuliani isn't shy about reminding audiences of those heady days. In fact he hyperventilates about them on the stump, making his credentials in the so-called war on terror the centerpiece of his campaign. His claims, meanwhile, have been met with a media deference so total that he's taken to complimenting "the good job it is doing covering the campaign." Opponents, too, haven't dared to question his terror credentials, as if doing so would be an unpatriotic bow to Osama bin Laden. Here, then, is a less deferential look at the illusory cloud emanating from the former mayor's campaign . . . Read the rest of Wayne Barrett's story, "Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11," from our sister paper, The Village Voice.
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Who was the mayor of New York City when two jets crashed into two towers? It was the mayor's job to keep New York safe! The man in charge did nothing before the attack to make sure the know threat of attack from the air was being handled by USAF jets on the ground waiting to launch. The president of the United States was also supposed to protect our cities from attack, but the USAF wasn't monitoring and protecting us! These men failed their sworn duty. Why do we consider either of them as leaders? Because you think their standing at ground zero AFTER the attack was patriotic? They failed to protect us and continue to spin it to their advantage. Do you get it?

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Posted by Jeffrey Meade on 08/10/2007 at 10:24 PM
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