Book finds plenty to rip Rudy for on 9/11

NY Daily News ^

[P-40]

the chairs of the commission conceded they failed to ask the "tough questions" of Giuliani

I thought they covered his involvement and the city's readiness for the attack quite well. It certainly was not flattering but there was little praise either.

[tkathy]

How can anyone "rip" Rudy? Rudy's perfect, IMO.







ouch!!!

[jla]

fyi

[SerpentDove]

The author has had five years to pick apart how one human being handled the biggest terrorist strike in American history.

I say Rudy did just fine, under the circumstances. But I'm sure the author would have done much better.

/s

[My2Cents]

I also hear that Rudy's mother wore Army boots.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

The book reminds me of what Richard Clarke did to Bush after he didn't get the job he wanted in the Bush Administration. I think Rudy did just fine. I like his leadership. He produces results.

[PhillyRepublican]

Looks like the liberals are afraid of a Guiliani run in 2008. The smear campaign seems to have started.

[Madeleine Ward]

I bet this will be a best seller.

And so enlightening from a 20/20 hindsight perspective.

[My2Cents]

But Kelly is unsparing in his critique, saying of Giuliani's decision to place its Office of Emergency Management Command Center at 7 World Trade Center, "It was just unwise."

Man! That is a career-ending mistake if ever I heard one. /sarc

[spookadelic]

What would have been differnt had NYC "been prepared"?
The towers would have still fallen, people would have still been trapped, the firefighters would have fought the blaze until the towers collapsed upon them, and people would have still been told to stay in the tower and wait for rescuers.

I think the results whould have been much the same "prepared" or not...
This sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me...

[Obie Wan]

Hey,how about writing a book about a mayor that REALLY deserves criticism,like maybe Ray Nagin mayor of New Orleans !!!

[sinkspur]

The book reminds me of what Richard Clarke did to Bush after he didn't get the job he wanted in the Bush Administration.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

Ray Kelly, meet Richard Clarke.

[Cobra64]

Yup. Rudy was supposed to be prepared for NYC being bombed.

Does anyone know if LA, San Fran, Chicago, Detroit, or Houston were prepared in 2001?

[Kirkwood]

I have no doubt that Rudy would have done some things differently in retrospect, but for every one thing that was questionable, he did 10 or 20 things extremely well. Primary among those was his overall ability to lead and pull together a city in a crisis.

A more important question is what was Kelly doing from 1993 to 2001 to personally make NYC a safer place? If he had this amazing ability of precognition that the city was unsafe because of Rudy's leadership, why wasn't he shouting it from the rooftops? What grass-roots efforts was he leading? Did he ever lift a finger to try to fix the alleged problems?

[brityank]

Hindsight and experience have a common starting point:  
 
They both allow you to recognize a mistake,  
when you make it again!!

Thanks, Rudy. Screw you, Kelly.

[My2Cents]

Precisely. This guy had the goods on Rudy's "incompetence" back even before 9/11, and it's taken him five years to "tell-all"? I question the timing of this.

[FlipWilson]

Where would 20/20 vision be without that hingsight?

[muleskinner]

I also hear that Rudy's mother wore Army boots.

In addition, she also wore sweat sox and smoked cigars.

[My2Cents]

In addition, she also wore sweat sox and smoked cigars.

I like her.