Giuliani defended Clinton terror record last year.
By on Jun 13th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Giuliani defended Clinton terror record last year.
Earlier today, we highlighted Rudy Giuliani’s claim last night that President Clinton’s mentality towards terrorism in the 1990’s was “don’t react, let things go.” In fact, the record shows just the opposite. And as Greg Sargent notes, Giuliani admitted as much nine months ago:
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended Bill Clinton on Wednesday over the former president’s counterterrorism efforts, saying recent criticism on preventing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is wrong. [...]
“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.
Steve Benen has more.
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His statement above is not contradictory in anyway to what he said last night on Hannity and Colmes.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:08 pmWell, the fact is Clinton did far less than Bush to eradicate Muslim Shiteating (tm) Terrorists. But he was not completely passive, after all Osama B. Ladin's Declaration of Jihad Against the Infidels (that's us folks) lists Clinton by name.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pmPresident Clinton, among many other accomplishments, arrested and brought back to stand trial in the United States, terrorists hiding in Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Jordan and Egypt.
Also, I seem to remember, when he sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in 1998, all the republicans were complaining about how much money cruise missiles cost.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:19 pm"Muslim Shiteating â„¢"
-Comment by Mr. President
You might as well give the humanitarians in here the number for the PC Police.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:20 pmRoboTroll 3100 reports:
Giuliani's two statements are entirely consistent. Republicans are incapacble of hypocrisy.
President Bush owns the War on Terrorâ„¢. Don't try to take it away from him.
Clinton Did Itâ„¢. (wrong talking point -- correct and revise)
Correction: Clinton Did NOT Do IT.â„¢
June 13th, 2007 at 7:21 pm[...]after all Osama B. Ladin’s Declaration of Jihad Against the Infidels (that’s us folks) lists Clinton by name.
Comment by Mr. President — June 13, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Because they considered Clinton their enemy and GW Botch, the worst person on earth, as their best friend...Saudi's love him, the rest of the worthless Bin-Laden family loves him, the enemies of this country love him, hell, everybody that hates democracy loves GW Botch!!!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pmrudy! rudy! rudy!
June 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pm#7, suck! sucks! sucks!
June 13th, 2007 at 7:23 pmi can't argue with that.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:25 pmAfter Bin Lden declared "jihad" against America the God fearing Republican Party swung into action and proceeded to try to find Muslim terrorists hiding in Bill Clinton's pants and tried to find Muslim terrorist weapons on Monica Lewinsky's dress.
Yes, as Bin Laden declared jihad the GOP declared a jihad on a penis and a penis-juice stain.
Great work!
The Republicans also declared that firing missiles at terrorists was "wagging the dog".
-GSD
June 13th, 2007 at 7:27 pmRudy used to be for the facts before he was against them!!! Flip-floppin', Flip-floppin', Flip-floppin' Repugniscum!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 7:29 pmrudy's going to defeat the terrorists by telling them the air's ok in lower manhattan
June 13th, 2007 at 7:35 pmComment by pgw — June 13, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Sorry, but it was the EPA ChairIdiot Christie Todd Witless from New Jerky that phf*ucked over the good people serving at ground 0!!!
Just another useless American...Why are they mostly Repugniscums???
WHY DO THEY ALL HATE AMERICA?????
June 13th, 2007 at 7:40 pmFlip. Flop. Flip. Flop. *raises finger, testing political wind* Flip. Flop. Flip. Flop.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:45 pmWhat a difference a run for the Presidency makes. You take fairly intelligent people and have them run for the Presidency and all of a sudden they will say anything that people want to hear. It's very scary. I once read a science fiction book about a society (after we had practically annihilated ourselves) that chose their ruler by putting the names in a hat of every adult over a certain page with an IQ of over a certain level. Then they pulled out a name and that was their new leader. Makes about as much sense as how we choose our leaders.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pmComment by Kate Henry — June 13, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
Actually, this website and 1000's of others are changing the evil science fiction you described; and for the better.
It's going to be much harder for the MSM to annoint the next leader as they did GW Botch, the most useless person on Earth.
The MSM is trying to put up H. Clinton vs. Rude Ghouliani already, look at the sh!t in the papers about whos winning, etc., so that they get a corporate a** sucking Press-A-Dent
June 13th, 2007 at 8:09 pmWhy does anybody think Rudy Guiliani is an expert on terrorism?
If I get mugged, does that make me a criminologist?
June 13th, 2007 at 8:46 pmThis is not news. Rudy Giuliani has already stated that he doesn't blame people for not getting that the terrorists had declared war on us (Including Clinton). He said that 9-11 should have opened people's eyes though and that if that didn't convince them, then nothing will.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:58 pmGood point Joe, we've gone from the 90's boom and electing a "CEO" President whose only CEO credits were all failures to now propping up a "Terrorism" president whose only credit is that he's a victim of terrorism. If that's our criteria though just think how good he'll be for restoring family values!
I like the idea of pulling names out of a hat as was mentioned above much better than electing the best ad campaign.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pmWell, the fact is Clinton did far less than Bush to eradicate Muslim Shiteating â„¢ Terrorists.
LMAO!!
Yeah, Bush whacked the hornets nest with a baseball bat. Then, he wachacked another one. Then another one. Then another one. Then he sid that all of the hornets that srea stinging people are the fault of his predecessor, and that his successor will have to clean up the mess.
Bush supporters are THE stupidest people on planet Earth. By a frigging mile.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:19 pmComment by hesiod — June 13, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
Shut the Fukc Hesiod,
Why don't you quit whining the farmin' and head down to courts like Perses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
June 13th, 2007 at 9:22 pmWow, now I totally see the holes in hesiod's argument.
Well, I can see on great, big hole, anyway.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:02 pmComment by joe — June 13, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
I know, right?
Hesiod's always telling Perses t' git ta farmin' and shit, but Perses stood up and took a bigger share of the inheritance so he should be allowed to go down to the courts.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:09 pmRudy's butt must hurt, b/c Rove has his hand right up his pooper, controlling Rudy's mouth like a muppet. If you look closely, you can see the black sticks controlling his hand and arm movements, too. I'd sooner vote for the Sweedish Chef than this fool.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:50 amFLIP FLOPPER! FLIP FLOPPER!
=)
C'mon, guys, let's fling this stuff back at them.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:35 amGiuliani recently commented more on his views on the Clinton administration and terrorism at a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, arguing that during the Clinton years not enough was done on the issue of terrorism:
http://www.mediamouse.org/features/060807giuli.php
June 14th, 2007 at 10:54 amWell, the fact is Clinton did far less than Bush to eradicate Muslim Shiteating ™ Terrorists. But he was not completely passive, after all Osama B. Ladin’s Declaration of Jihad Against the Infidels (that’s us folks) lists Clinton by name.
Comment by Mr. President — June 13, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Not according to Condi Rice:
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice said during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post.
You can find this on MSNBC.
Therefore, if Clinton didn't do squat on terrorism during his term, neither did Bush.
June 14th, 2007 at 2:39 pmAnd this from the same article on MSNBC:
Given a golden opportunity to respond to Clinton, Bush couldn't even lay out the things his administration did. You know, like a laundry list of the actions his administration did to fight and prevent terrorism from the first day he took office.
Instead, he hid behind the lame-ass excuse of "finger pointing."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15011269/
June 14th, 2007 at 2:46 pmyou know when ever these republitards get into hot water(hey rudy,where did all the rubble go from wtc)they pull the clinton card out of their pocket.this is the stupidest f***ing country on the face of the earth.why is this poor excuse for a human being even in the running!!
June 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pmi really think you could put up a monkey for the republitard candidate
and these drooling stupid a** americans would elect him.ooops my
mistake.....they already did...twice!!!!!!!!
While Bill Clinton may or may not have done all he could to capture Osama Bin Ladin, he did leave George W. Bush with some very firm information regarding the status of Al Qaeda including the seriousness of the threat of an attack on the United States. I accurately predicted that George W. Bush would go to war in Iraq back in October of 2000 (before the election) and that the war would be a disaster. I also predicted the events of 9/11 in January of 2001 after Bush took the "oath" of office. The method and targets were obvious to me based on simple consideration of public information. The fact that I guessed the correct date still mystifies me but it is not the first time I've done this. I tried to figure out who to warn about the impending attack and was particularly upset that George W. Bush decided to go on vacation for most of August 2001 when he knew (or should have known) based on memos and itelligence that an attack was due any time. I even considered flying to New York to try to get people to NOT go into the World Trade Center on 9/11. I considered calling in a bomb threat. I thought of a lot of things, but none that would have done any good. George W. Bush is a pathetic loser who has put this country in grave jeopardy. There has been little to no real progress to improve national security since 9/11. Homeland Security is a joke. The people in charge are spending millions in taxpayer money doing dumb ineffective things and taking trips to tropical resorts for "meetings." Whether or not Bill Clinton did the right thing, George W. Bush is certainly doing the wrong thing.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pmRudy "The Flipper" Floppiano
June 28th, 2007 at 7:52 am