Posted on 04/24/2007 6:22:30 PM PDT by jimbo123
MANCHESTER, N.H. - - Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
“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.
The former New York City mayor, currently leading in all national polls for the Republican nomination for president, said Tuesday night that America would ultimately defeat terrorism no matter which party gains the White House.
“But the question is how long will it take and how many casualties will we have?” Giuliani said. “If we are on defense (with a Democratic president,) we will have more losses and it will go on longer.”
“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”
He added: “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.”
After his speech to the Rockingham County Lincoln Day Dinner, I asked him about his statements and Giuliani said flatly: "America will safer with a Republican president."
Giuliani, whose past positions on abortion, gun control and gay rights have made him anathema to some in his party, believes his tough stance on national defense and his post-Sept. 11 reputation as a fighter of terrorism will be his trump card with doubting Republicans.
“This war ends when they stop coming here to kill us!” Giuliani said. “Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!”
Giuliani said terrorists “hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine. They hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.”
Giuliani continued: “The freedoms we have are in conflict with the perverted, maniacal interpretation of their religion.” He said Americans would fight for “freedom for women, the freedom of elections, freedom of religion, and the freedom of our economy.”
Addressing the terrorists directly, Giuliani said: “We are not giving that up and you are not going to take it from us!”
The crowd thundered its approval.
Giuliani also said that America had been naïve about terrorism in the past and had missed obvious signals.
“They were at war with us before we realized it, going back to 90s with all the Americans killed by the PLO and Hezbollah and Hamas,” he said. “They came here and killed us in 1993 (with the first attack on New York’s World Trade Center killing six people) and we didn’t get it. We didn’t get it that this was a war. Then Sept. 11, 2001 happened and we got it.”
Oh your nice.
Hey Rudy this tactic really worked out for the Republicans last election to keep control of congress didn’t it?!
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Republicans were SCARED to use this tactic, (even though it’s true) and they lost.
Just like the last Democrat.
The major difference which Democrats don’t seem to grasp between the current GWOT and Vietnam is this time the enemy is real and wants to destroy the US.
Leave it to Democrats and their Democrat political games, don’t let reality tread on their stupidity. In the end, people don’t want to get blowed up, and will punish dearly those that get that part wrong.
your=you’re in #21.
Will losing this war on terror and adopting Sharia Law be less of a threat to our Constitution?
Didn’t the terrorists just say something similar (Hiroshima) about the UK?
I thought only the Dems were using Al-Quada talking points.
Hey if you want to play in the slime and gutter, I figured I’d join your pathetic uselessness.
Look, I can play the scorched earth game too like the rest of you SELFISH purists.
All these scare tactics do is p!#s me off.
Yet another low. At this rate, he could be the world’s new limbo champion.
A pair of what?
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Those two things that dangle between SOME men’s legs.
That may be one of the most ridiculously over-the-top, impossible campaign promises I have ever seen.
Republicans have no crystal ball with which to stop terrorist attacks.
Nevertheless, I'm glad he's making some effort to point out the cut-and-run strategy of the Rats.
“The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.”
Giuliani is telling the truth here, and I hope the American voters listen for '08.
Electing a democrat would be disastrous.
While the NVA may not have posed a direct threat to the US, the threat of communism was (and continues to be) every bit as real as islamofascism. The communists, too, wanted to destroy the US.
Bring up his policies all you want, but the lame attacks using the same talking points (and pics) the NYT uses has me fed up.
If a limp-wristed nancy boy from Lawn Guyland who is ethically and mentally challenged to boot our main defense against Islam, then we might as well roll down the flag and surrender now.
Rudy doesn't cut the mustard. At best, he should be made ambassador to Togo or Kazakhstan.
I think its pretty clear.
Please, you’re being really pathetic. I’ve never see an anti-liberal/Giuliani poster tell anyone to “go kill” themself. Most anti-Giuliani conservatives on this forum just post his own words, quotes and pictures. Yet that always seem to make the Rudymites on this forum wet themselves and throw a hissy fit. Why is that?
Like he stopped 9/11.
Half of the American babes who are murdered by Rooty's NARAL buddies are females. That's twenty-five million of them stripped of their pre-eminent inalienable God-given right since Roe.
the freedom of elections,
What a liar this guy is. He supported so-called "campaign finance reform," the biggest attack on the freedom of the American people to choose their leaders in this generation, or perhaps ever.
freedom of religion,
I believe that this man is completely irreligious, and that he and his people laugh at people of faith.
and the freedom of our economy.
Liberals always turn into tax and spenders and regulators no matter what they say on the campaign trail.
Good answer,...
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