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.”
Pantyhose?
In any event. Hillary would destroy Giuliani. Just as she would have stomped him like a stinkbug had he not pulled out of the Senate race due to ethical issues and prostate cancer.
Great Post. Thanks for being brave enough, in this climate, to post it.
A pair of what?
If you have to ask, you’ve never had any.
But replying with the same pics hoping to disgust someone at the lowest and cheapest of levels is pathetic, and you deserve any flames you get for it... though considering your response the very reason you posted was to 'get a rise' so I don't get why you're acting all pissy now.
Of course not.
Yeah, I've seen several dozen folks who think like you here in the last couple of days. They're all FR ashes now...
I like your posts. Keep up the good work.
Taking it to the enemy, here and abroad, music to my ears!
You can bet the DNC’s coffers are bulging with whatever coin the Muzzies use!
You’re thinking smart. Don’t change. Keep thinking.... We love American and wish for it to continue as a FREE country, first and foremost.
I'll second that.
I disagree. If rudy were pres, the terrorists would be pasting those kind of pictures all over the place in their subcultures. It is not the lowest of the low. It is a legitimate focus on someone who is not presidential material.
I wholeheartedly disagree about the NY Senate race in 2000. Rudy would have mopped the floor with Hillary. He would have eaten into her base in the city and cleaned her clock upstate.
Lazio ran about the worst campaign I've ever seen and still kept it relatively close until the end.
No it wasn't. I fully meant it. If it was posted to "get a rise" as your faulty reasoning claims, more people would have wrote something. But a whole two people responded, and only one whined about it, that one being your sorry as*. So you're really not one to talk about being "pissy".
What dupes they are.
Whatcha got againt folks in those poor countries?
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."
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."
Here is someone who gets it.
Are the other candidates speaking as plainly?
Do all you Giulianni-haters really, _really_, REALLY believe there is NO DIFFERENCE between electing Giulianni and electing Hillary Clinton or B. Hussein Obama?
How much more does he need to say?
How much more could ANYone say?
- John
Thanks, I wasn't expecting that. I'll try.
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