Rudy's Real Background On Terrorism

If you like the direction George W. Bush has taken the country, you're going to love four years of Rudy Giuliani. Time Magazine explains how Giuliani's "tough talk" is all bluster and talk and no substance.

Time magazine fact checks Giuliani's exaggerations on the trail about his record as a student of terrorism.

Giuliani and his aides have said he has been "studying Islamic terrorism" for 30 years. This is an exaggeration.

Jerome Hauer Giuliani's emergency-management chief from 1996 to 2000 shoots down the notion that Giualini's been a student of Islamic terrorism saying, "If he's been studying it for 30 years, he certainly never verbalized it to me."Time magazine found that in 80 speeches from 1993 to 2001, he made only one brief mention of terrorism.

In 2006 Giuliani was kicked off the Iraq Study group for missing meetings because of paid speeches. He has very little knowledge of foreign policy.

Giuliani had an unusual opportunity to cram foreign policy when he was invited to join the Iraq Study Group by the co-chairman, former Secretary of State James Baker III, in February 2006. Giuliani accepted, becoming one of just 10 people, including former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in the congressionally mandated group. He participated in a conference call to discuss logistics but then did not attend the first two major meetings. On those days, he delivered paid speeches.

When it's come to personnel, he's had a history of flawed judgment.

One of the most damning criticisms of Giuliani, however, has been his record of flawed judgment on personnel. In 2004, Giuliani recommended that President George W. Bush nominate Bernard Kerik to run the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik was a police officer and Giuliani's driver before he was elevated to corrections commissioner and police chief. But the nomination collapsed when information about Kerik's past and possible ties to mob-related businesses began to filter out.
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But Giuliani's most surprising security adviser so far is his old friend former FBI director Louis Freeh. Freeh's stewardship of the FBI during the eight years before the bureau's most spectacular failure makes him an unusual choice."

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Rudy Giuliani has told so many lies that any clear thinking person by now should know that anything he says can't be trusted. Giuliani is dishonest and he stands for nothing.

Giuliani is a Disgusting Liar
by MissLaura

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/10/13347/3201

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DemocratKickingAss on August 23, 2007 at 02:13 PM

In 2006 Giuliani was kicked off the Iraq Study group for missing meetings because of paid speeches.

When Bush fires somebody, you know they are totally useless. Spunky never fires anyone.

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SandyH on August 23, 2007 at 07:34 PM

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