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 And the radios failed in the first week and had to be withdrawn.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. ...
Like?
No one has done anything about those who are above a fire line in a high-rise building.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Someone at MSNBC is going to be in big trouble. They were supposed to wait until AFTER February 5, 2008 to start this stuff, after Giuliani had the nomination locked up.
Rudy was good on "Lawr and Or-dah", but not much else. Much of the credit for the decrease in crime lies with Jack Maple anyway.
The media has been pushing Rudy as the candidate since day one. He is the "Colin Powell" of this election cycle.
As Rudeo said on 9/11: "On 9/11 I announce as the 9/11 candidate. I would not even be here on 9/11 if 9/11 had not happened. I own 9/11.
9/11 is my lucky number. Even my dog is named 9/11. And my wife has 9/11 tattoed on her thigh.
I get up at 911 AM everyday and retire at 911 PM. I only buy cars that get 9 to 11 miles to the gallon. 9/11 is the lottery number I play everyday. I live on 911 Ninth Street at the corner of 11th Avenue.
I'm buying the 7/11 store chain and renaming it 9/11.
9/11 will be forever embedded in the memory of 9/11 post-America. I shall make 9/11 a national holiday....that's why I'm running.
"Just because something is tiresome doesn't mean it isn't potentially true."
When it is applied on every thread, about every candidate, it isn't effective, it is just annoying. Every body should just defend their candidate without always throwing in that non sequitur (if I'm using that phrase correctly).
Silly. It's exacty the opposite. They hate him. They know he'll tell them to stick it. He may not be my first, second, or even third candidate, but I have confidence that he won't put up with crap from the media.
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NEVER FORGET
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA
http://www.RickRescorla.com
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
NEVER FORGET
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Rudy will answer all the second guessers and make them look like cheap shot artists, instead of saying nothing.
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.
LOL!
Goes to show that memories are short - had 9/11 not happened, Rudy would have faded away by now.
I agree, and you know that damn Eisenhower would have been garbage w/o WWII, and Reagan likewise without a stupid acting career, Fred Thompson too. How dare they.
I don't need a "book" to tell me what happended on 911. I observed it real time for myself.
Awful funny how you invoke the president's name as your moniker yet you constantly post negatives about republicans. I have no doubt you are a leftwing moonbat. BTW, Rudy will make "Teflon Don" look like "fly paper frankie" when all this mudslinging does not stick. Another dive by move on hit job that will miss its mark.
BTW, I hope Fred Thompson runs (he wil get my vote) and if not, I will vote Hunter or Rudy but leaning towards Rudy.
It's good arm chair quarter-backing after the fact and blaming the victims instead of the terrorists.
That's my pecking order exactly. Thompson, Hunter, Rudy. Maybe Romney could sneak in, but he keeps screwing up.
PING!
Rudy did not serve in the military, nor did he want to.
That does not qualify him to be Commander in Chief of the United States military in war time.
We are supposed to be picking the best Republican to lead us, and we've been fortunate enough to have a wide variety of choices this election cycle.
Of all of our choices, Rudy is second worst. (McCain is # 1) IMHO.
I forgot about Romney. Sorry Romney, I like you too. Four good candiates which I will gladly vote for any over the choice of the democrats. Hell, the stump in my front yard would get my vote before ANY democrat.
Very true. It shows a sense of poor judgment. Rudy seems to have a bad habit of that.
It was poor judgment to want to be POTUS down the road and flaunt his mistress in front of the world.
Could it be that Rudy would use poor judgment as President, just to look tough?
Your actions Rudy, tell us more than your words, promises and talking points of your rudybots.
Is there actually anything to "slime" them with? Giuliani is the gift that keeps on giving. There are books about him and his companies. The press (and the Democrats) will have a field day if he remains in the race.
We can argue and debate positions among ourselves, but ONLY from a position of strength.
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