Giuliani Tells it Like it is

Bullseye. Right on target, as far as I am concerned.  I will add my opinion to the thoughts below: Bill Clinton was too interested in being Mr. Popularity to do his freaking job properly:

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.

The former New York mayor criticized Democrats, accusing them of weakness and naivete in dealing with terrorism. Giuliani made the comments to about 650 business, corporate and political leaders at Regent University, the conservative Christian college founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.

"Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993," said the former New York mayor.

Giuliani argued that Clinton treated the World Trade Center bombing as a criminal act instead of a terrorist attack, calling it "a big mistake" that emboldened other strikes on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in Kenya and Tanzania and later on the USS Cole while docked in Yemen in 2000.

"The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond," Giuliani said. "(Osama) bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it."

In hindsight, Giuliani said, maybe it's all clearer now, "but now is now, and there is no reason to go back into denial, and that is essentially what the Democratic candidates for president want to do: they want to go back, to put the country in reverse to the 1990s.

"I'm not blaming anybody back then," Giuliani said later in the day at a campaign stop at a Jewish temple in Rockville, Md. "What I am saying is, I do blame people after Sept. 11. Now you have to get it."

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[The Town Crier]

1993? Oh Right 1993...who was the Mayor of New york City during the attack on the wtc? was it...no wiat...yes it was, uh RUDY?
How did he react? did he stregnthen security? did he learn to sync the first responders to one network?
nah... he hadm ore important things to do like wage war agains the squeegie men.

Oh and BTW, Rudy is a major flip flopper too. just look at what he had to say only a few months ago
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8KDH4900&show_article=1

[Gail]

Did the mayor of Honolulu receive any flak for failing to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor? Giuliani did a great job in making NYC a safer place, but there's only so much a mayor can do against air attacks originating from other cities carried out by enemies of the United States.

[Mark]

Did Giuliani say Clinton was to blame? No.

Did the DNC try to place blame on Giuliani? Yes.

Major difference. Which is why the DNC can take my loyal 28 years and stick it up their collective arses.

[draftervoi]

Same here. I'll probably never vote Democratic again, after thirty years of it.