Monday, May 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani is an idiot
Rudy Giuliani should have been spending less time flying around the country giving paid speeches on the 9-11 terror attacks and spent more time actually learning more about them. Including the reasons we were attacked.
This following is a partial transcript from the recent Republican South Carolina Presidential debate.
REP. PAUL: No. Non-intervention was a major contributing factor. Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we’ve been over there; we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We’ve been in the Middle East — I think Reagan was right.
We don’t understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we’re building an embassy in Iraq that’s bigger than the Vatican. We’re building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us. (Applause.)
MR. GOLER: Are you suggesting we invited the 9/11 attack, sir?
REP. PAUL: I’m suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we’re over there because Osama bin Laden has said, “I am glad you’re over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.” They have already now since that time — (bell rings) — have killed 3,400 of our men, and I don’t think it was necessary.
MR. GIULIANI: Wendell, may I comment on that? That’s really an extraordinary statement. That’s an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don’t think I’ve heard that before, and I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th. (Applause, cheers.)
And I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn’t really mean that. (Applause.)
MR. GOLER: Congressman?
REP. PAUL: I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem.
They don’t come here to attack us because we’re rich and we’re free. They come and they attack us because we’re over there. I mean, what would we think if we were — if other foreign countries were doing that to us?
Congressmen Ron Paul is correct. Bin Laden didn’t attack the United States because of our love of apple pie and baseball. He didn’t attack us because we love Jesus.
Rudy Giuliani has made a lot of money off of 9-11. You would think he would try to learn a thing or two about it. Instead he comes off looking like an idiot.
Congressman Ron Paul was right. The so-called “America’s Mayor” was wrong.
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Paul is totally right, and so far he’s the only Republican candidate I’ve heard who’s had the guts to actually suggest that maybe those Islamic terrorist types are pissed at us for a real, practical reason, not because, as Bush and now Giuliani have claimed ad nauseam, “we love freedom.”
The demand for a retraction from Paul was the real kicker, as though Giuliani took personal offense. He was saying that our presence in the middle east was a contributing factor to the 9/11 attacks, not the sole cause — it wasn’t “our fault,” as Giuliani seemed to be suggesting Paul said, but to claim we were totally innocent, minding our own business before a completely unprovoked attack is ridiculous. Recognizing the role U.S. policy played in precipitating the “war on terror” is not the same as siding with the terrorists.
–Steve
Ron Paul is also right not to let a clown like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Giuliani bully him into an unnecessary retraction or apology. Misuse of the words “freedom” and “democracy” worked nicely for Rudy’s ilk for a while but those tired, old techniques have been ready for the trash can for a long time now.
Furthermore, Giuliani cannot continue to rest on the laurels of “living through” 9/11. I lived through 9/11 (I was nowhere close to the attack itself, but I lived through it just fine) and nobody’s calling me America’s Mayor. I’ve had quite enough of that lisping fool.
Rudy saying that he lived through 9-11 is so narcissistic. Four aircraft were involved in the terror attacks on 9-11 and only two of them were in NYC when Rudy was mayor. He doesn’t own 9-11. His own ineptitude helped contribute to the chaos of 9-11. He was the one that chose the World Trade Center as the location of the Office of Emergency Management headquarters. Building 7 was destroyed because he chose to store a large quantity of diesel fuel there. It’s absurd that he was able to use the events of 9-11 to both rehabilitate his reputation and to make money.
I think I’d fear a Giuliani presidency more than the current Bush reign.
A Giuliani presidency would mean a nation-wide ban on jaywalking.