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April 25, 2007

Giuliani Kissing Up to Pro-War Faction of GOP

As horrible as the President's approval ratings are, and as much as the American people have lost faith in this war, it amazes me that Rudy Giuliani is kissing up to the pro-war faction of the Republican Party. He's actually saying that if America elects a Democratic president in 2008, we can expect another 9/11-type attack because the Democrats don't understand what we're up against and will take us back to our "pre-9/11 attitude of [playing] defense." If, on the other hand, we elect a Republican, he says, we will be able to anticipate and prevent such an attack.

It is more than vaguely reminiscent of Vice President Cheney's comments in early September of 2004, when he said if voters put John Kerry in the White House, "we'll get hit again, and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States." He also warned America would "fall back into a pre-9/11 mind-set."

There's an up-side to having a Democrat in the White House, though Giuliani doesn't see it as a positive: "We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, [and] interrogation." He thinks that's bad because we won't have as good an idea about what's going on out there in the effort to attack us. Clearly, Giuliani is not big on the Constitution.

Here are a couple of other mind-bogglingly stupid quotes by Giuliani:

“This war ends when they stop coming here to kill us!” (They haven't come here to kill us in almost six years.)

Terrorists “hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.” (No, they hate us for our imperialistic advances over the past century on their territory and our refusal to let them live their lives as they want to.)

“If we are on defense [with a Democratic president], we will have more losses and it will go on longer.” (No, it is Democrats who are calling for an end to this war and being berated by people like Giuliani for doing so.)

Posted by Becky at April 25, 2007 09:43 AM