Posted on 03/19/2007 9:10:53 AM PDT by George W. Bush
9/11: Book Reassesses Giuliani's Role
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In what ways?
The dumbest decision he made was to put the [city’s emergency] command center in the World Trade Center even though his principal security advisers urged him to put it elsewhere. His own emergency-management director, Jerry Hauer, wanted it to go where [current New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg has now put it: in Brooklyn ... If he had, he could have managed the crisis much more capably ......
There’s also a whole chapter about radios. It took until March of 2001 for the fire department to come up with new radios. And the radios failed in the first week and had to be withdrawn. But they could have been reconfigured ...
Giuliani took office in January 1994, not long after the [first] World Trade Center bombing. Wasn’t there pressure on him to prevent another attack?
Everyone agrees that the question of terrorism never came up in selection of a police commissioner, which began not long after the attack. A water main broke in the first month of [Giuliani’s] administration, and he was more concerned with how the city responded to that. ...
...Also, there are enormous ways the police department has changed now. ... There were 16 or 17 detectives assigned to [the FBI's] Joint Terrorism Task Force when Giuliani took office, and when he left office in 2001 there were still 16 or 17 officers assigned. ...
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No one has done anything about those who are above a fire line in a high-rise building.
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Some good quotes and info here in the article.
The drive-by hits on Rudy are starting. Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate.
"Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate."
No, they consider him to be the one who will generate the most news interest, just like they did with anna nicole.
So, you're saying none of this is true?
Are you saying what I said was untrue? Notice they aren't sliming Duncan Hunter or Sam Brownback. No need. They can't win.
Post Season Armchair Quarterbacking.
This is an excellent point, and one that was made well before 9/11 and then again in the aftermath.
The Twin Towers had alreasy been hit once - maybe he figured lightning never strikes twice. That must have been it, because putting the emergency command center smack dab in the middle of one of the city's largest targets was a really dumb idea.
They'll take their best shots, and Rudy will still be standing.
Not to mention the timing. I suspect a vast left wing conspiracy is starting.
So this book came out just at the right time, when Giuliani's name is being mentioned as a candidate?
So MSNBC decided to promote the book just at the right time?
It's obvious that Giuliani is seen as a threat by the fascist left and they are going to mobilize their forces (media, dems) to torpedo his candidacy.
I suspect this will be the preferred tactic of the Rudy boosters when confronted with inconvenient facts. It was extremely stupid of Rudy to have the emergency management center in the WTC. He also failed to upgrade emergency radios during his long tenure leading up to 9-11.
Throw in his pushing of Bernie Kerik for the most important anti-terror job in the country, and you have a guy who truly does not the subject seriously.
"The drive-by hits on Rudy are starting. Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate."
It does get tiresome seeing that line on every thread about every article that is critical about any of the candidates.
I thought most was true also.
Try reading Steven Brill's "After." I think you'll have a somewhat different view . . . or maybe not, since it seems you don't care for Rudy regardless of the record.
Just because something is tiresome doesn't mean it isn't potentially true. The fact is, the drive-bys will attempt to take out whoever they perceive is the greatest threat to Hillobama.
But he's a strong leader, and he doesn't back down. So it doesn't matter that people told him it was stupid, the important thing is that, since he didn't agree with them, he belittled them and stuck to his guns and left the command center right where it was.
And his success on 9/11 shows that he was correct. After all, if the command center had been in Brooklyn and had been intact, we wouldn't have film of Rudy running around that morning trying to find a place to set up a temporary center, and he wouldn't be known as America's Mayor now.
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