Al Gore was elected in 2000, had the Krispy Kreme Kourt not astoundingly intervened in the "we're not settting any precedent with this transparently partisan decision" Bush v Gore. 9/11 would not have happened, or at least on that scale. Al wouldn't have been on a five week vacation ignoring briefings entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside US", nor would he have brushed off Richard Clark eight months prior when he raised every possible red flag about terrorism preparedness. And, finally, thimblewit, we would not be in Iraq (where 104 more American soldiers have died so far thi month), complicit in heinous war crimes. Yeah, sure is lucky Al isn't President.

He said that? Eee -wwwwwww.

That this sociopath should even consider running for the presidency says two things:

1)The electorate are considered too stupid by the politicians who feel they can package manure and sell it as perfume or

2)The qualifications for the presidency are deceit, bombast,bluster,and being a bully, both to their wives, children and unfortunate Wall Street bad boys who are humiliated by being put in handcuffs for alleged white collar crimes.

Giuliani had his moment in the sun. That does not qualify him for the presidency.

Or, perhaps, sadly, it does

The more Republicans say that Democrats want to end the war, the more an individual is likely to realize that he or she is by this definition, a Democrat. Repubicans are creating more Democrats.

I wish the media, including Salon, would get over this business of pouring over video field by field to find the one instant where somebody looks crazy to put at the top of an article. The right does it the left does it, it's part of our national practice of demonizing people.

Pure and simple. As is Rove, Cheney, Ashcroft (gone but not forgotten, the serpentine Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Imus, O'Reilly and the whole cabal of wingnuts that believe they "speak for America". How many times in history have we witnessed bullies in power? Doesn't usually turn out to well for the people. Giuliani had five minutes of grace-given compassion, but it was woefully short-lived. We are doomed if that man gets his hands on the national machinery. A friend said to me recently that she feared we are on the threshold of a new, modern fascism. I'm not quite ready to go there, but if Giuliani gets his way, our already damaged civil liberties will be negated. I long for real debate, real substance, and the end of demagogues and their hateful, hate-filled rants.

I am not sure why people are confusing the issue about where Guiliani's Command Center was- Paul Begala also implied the same thing- that it was in WTC 1, since that is the building that was attacked in 1993. The Command Center was in wtc 7, the third building that fell on September 11. It was a 47 story high rise that collapsed into itself around 5:20 pm after police and EMT people had cleared the area for five blocks. It of course was not hit by a plane and the questions are quite a bit more serious and provoking concerning Guiliani and many other people about their activities, lack of clear answers and especially complete avoidance of honest discussion about this-

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/background/wtc7.html

Sincerely, David Neal

The problem with Giuliani and the Republicans is that they simply don't have even the most basic understanding of the history and politics of the Middle East. This ignorance, combined with the obvious vote-getting power of fear mongering, have made them buy wholeheartedly into the discredited world view of the neocons and the Israel Lobby. According to this world view, Israel's adversaries (Saddam Hussein, PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc) should be linked to 9/11 and lumped together with Alqaida.

Alqaida is a violent extremists group on the fringes of Wahabist Islam, an orthodox form of Islam which is dominant in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and now, thanks to the Iraq war, in Western Iraq. The invasion of Iraq, rather than weakening Alqaida, has greatly strengthened it because it it created the kind of chaos that extremist movements strive on. It also turned America into a reckless aggressor in the eyes of many in the Arab and Muslim world.

"Giuliani also charged that America had been naive about terrorism in the past and had missed obvious signals. "They were at war with us before we realized it, going back to '90s with all the Americans killed by the PLO and Hezbollah and Hamas," he said. "They came here and killed us in 1993 [with the first attack on New York's World Trade Center, in which six people died], and we didn't get it. We didn't get it that this was a war. Then Sept. 11, 2001, happened, and we got it." The crowd cheered wildly.

Giuliani was not about to reveal to his audience that none of these groups had anything to do with 9/11. Or that right after the attack one of the first to condemn it in very strong language was Hezbollah's Secretary General Hasan Nassrallah, an adversary of Osama bin Laden who claims Shia Hezbollah are not even Muslims...."

- http://counterpunch.com/lamb04262007.html

You are so ignorant and so full of hatred towards a party of people who are basically just like you. Surely you can see that these people who have only one goal, and that is to destroy the West.They had made thier plans clear way before the Bush presidency. We, as a people, are doing exactly what they want, and that is fracturing ourselves. Instead of standing together, despite our differences, we have become a divided country, willing to despise each other instead of focusing on the very threat that means to destroy us. So go ahead and cuss out what you think is your opponet, yet in the end , we will all see who the real threat is.

Giuliani is right.

If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 and, (somehow) re-elected in 2004, we would still be trying to get a UN resolution passed to censure the Afghan Taliban government for their role in 9/11.