What a Difference a Campaign Makes
June 26th, 2007
Giuliani last September:
“The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don’t think he deserves it,” Giuliani said during a stop in Florida. “I don’t think President Bush deserves it. The people who deserve blame for Sept. 11, I think we should remind ourselves, are the terrorists – the Islamic fanatics – who came here and killed us and want to come here again and do it.”
Giuliani today from the Associated Press:
“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.”
I am sure its just the first of what is to come from Giuliani who is clearly going to use 9/11 and the War on Terrorism as the two most important and perhaps only real themes of the campaign at least for now.
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June 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am
[...] Election Geek notes that yesterday’s speech at Regent University, in which Rudy Giuliani blamed Bill Clinton for not responding forcefully enough to terror attacks prior to 9/11, directly contradicted what America’s Mayor himself was saying just last September. With the campaign in full gear, it seems Rudy has abandoned honest national security analysis in favor of simple propaganda. [...]