Letters to the Editor
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Giuliani
is Cheney. He ran NYC the same way Cheney has run this country with fear and intimidation, and in Giuliani's case, occasionally wearing an dress. A city where under his leadership crime was down and you could be shot by police 41 times for "pulling" a comb. America got what it deserved by electing and re-electing George Bush. If they want more of the same, Giuliani is their man.
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Oh, right.
"If any Republican is elected president -- and I think, obviously, I would be the best at this -- we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it," Giuliani said.
Things like having regular meetings, listening to the people in charge of anti-terrorism, and having cabinet-level discussions daily in times of high threat, leading to quashing of plots such as, oh, blowing up airports, as Bush has done? That's great. Much better than ignoring threats, disbanding the teams who fight terrorism, and blowing a lot of hot air like Clinton did.
No, wait, that was the other way 'round, wasn't it? My bad.
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Generalissimo Guiliani
No way am I voting for him.
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Wisdom
Nearly everything the administration did (and Rudy is following along) falls apart when confronted by a simple aphorism:
The wisdom to act is not wisdom in the actions chosen.
No one, now or ever, proposed we do nothing after 9/11. That by no means amounts to rubber stamping whatever wanders into our heads to do. With regard to Iraq: What made that war, at that time, in that way, THE way to proceed in the wake of 9/11, and against Islamic radicalism? By all means take the offensive, but only after careful consideration over just what is the WISE thing to do. If WWI and Vietnam teach us anything, it is that being stupid is just as dangerous as being weak and irresolute.
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If Giuliani is elected as President . . .
If Giuliani is elected as President then how soon will toilet plungers be made part of our Department of Homeland Security's arsenal to defend Americans from the terrorists and liberals?
Now would be a good time to buy stock in companies that make toilet plungers.
Jack Bauer - "I'll make him talk! Get me the plunger!!! And turn off those cameras!!!!!"
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WTF
...it's going to happen again. The rubes in the flyover states are going to get scared of big bad "Islamofacism" and stick us with another loser.
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No surprise
The leading GOP candidates KNOW they have nothing to offer except fear and the perception of tough action against "the enemy". What else can they try to sell to us? They're totally spent right now.
The little Republican boys who cried "Wolf!" have cried too many times. Nobody believes them any more -- people know that there was no wolf in Iraq threatening the U.S., but now our armed forces are being fed to wolves that were spawned in Iraq precisely BECAUSE we foolishly invaded that country.
The more interesting upcoming event to watch will be McCain's formal announcement today of his candidacy -- it would be expected, I think, that he'll get some kind of bump in his poll ratings immediately afterward. Let's all pay close attention to Iowa and New Hampshire in particular -- I'm willing to bet that his "bump" will be insignificant, failing to stop his slide into well-deserved oblivion.
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Giuliani might be right - for the wrong reasons
I'm more worried about all of those Bush-by-the-grace-of-God right wingers that have been put in charge of our defenses and our intelligence. How many of them will remain in place after a Democratic president takes office?
With so many "reality based" analysts being forced out of the CIA and with noncompliant military commanders replaced by the Bush administration can a Democrat in the White House trust that he (or she) won't be betrayed?
My big concern is that some would betray their country and its citizens to fulfill the predictions of Cheney and Giuliani.
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Bad memory
The Democrat in the White House actively persued terrorists and binLaden. The Republican threw away the preperations and warnings 'cause it was far more important to go after pornographers and to use the justice department against Democrats. The Republican president allowed 9/11 to happen through negligence and ignorance. The Democratic president is the one that kept the terrorists at bay, the Republican is the one that created a new haven for terrorists in Iraq. The Republicans in congress are the ones that kept the Democrat in the White House from persuing terrorists more actively. Giuliani is running on a campaign of 4 more years of disaster? Just what we need.
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Kissin' Cousins
American should be reminded on a daily basis that Giuliani's first wife was his own cousin. Yeah, sure, the same can be said about FDR, but this is the post-9/11 world, everything has changed.
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Who was in the Whitehouse on 9/11?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a Republican president who had ignored warnings right up to a month before the incident?
I think we'd fare better with the other guys.
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Who's been in the White House since 9/11?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it a Republican president who has ignored al-Qaeda and forgotten Osama, thus letting them continue to threaten and attack the West?
I think we'd fare better with the other guys.
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More tough talk from another coward
Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe Rudy is a Vietnam drafter dodger just like Cheney, et al.
What's with all this noise? When they had the chance to protect their country they ran and hid. The list of chickenhawks reads like a who's-who of the right wing in this country.
Born again tough guys from former pussies, that's what you get with the new Republican party.
It blows my fuckin mind.
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Perhaps I am just tired and out of patience today, but I am so sick of Republicans I want to vomit
Hate to break it to ya "Rudy" but Bush was in the WHITE HOUSE ON 9-11... well not physically, physically he was pissing his pants in a children's classroom. The bottonm line is Bush had the raines and Bush f#@ked up (like he has done so often since).
and no Republican, Democrat, or news reporter holds him accountable for that... they all seem to blame Clinton for it. Anyone who reads Richard Clark's book "Against All Enemies" can educate themself on how much Clinton did to defend us from terrorists, and how much Bush did NOT do. If Republicans are so great at stoppinjg terrorists, why did 9-11 happen on Bush's watch and not on CLinton's?
And isn't Iraq worse than 9-11? Being attacked is one thing, but attacking a country for no reason is far far far worse. The amount of suffering caused by Republicans serving "at the pleasure of the President" exceeds ANYTHING close to another 9-11 attack.
What the hell is it going to take to get this country to wake the f*@k up and see that Republicans cannot be trusted with anything? They wage war, they reduce our liberties, they skyrocket the deficit, they break law after law after law, and they blame Democrats the entire time they do it, and the public just keeps believing it.
Americans have no pride in anything accept empty rhetoric and symbols like the flag. Integrity, honesty, civility, compassion, where is it? How can anyone call themself a Republican after the last six years? Hell, after the last 30 years, when has a Republican ever done anything valuable for our country? When has a Republican contributed to anything accept lying, steeling and killing?
I know this is going to envite all kinds of attacks on liberals and Democrats but I really don't give a crap at this point. Republicans have no moral ground to stand on. Clinton is a lyer, but at least he CARED about the people, and that makes him a thousand times more moral than Bush will ever be. Republicans don't care about anyone but themselves, and their stupid f#@king money.