Oh, Rudy. Please sit down.
I really don’t understand why Rudy believes he is an expert on terror. He was the one who decided to place the command center in the World Trade Center in the first place.
From Salon.com:
For years now — about eight, to be specific — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001 an inextricable part of his image. It reached the point where Joe Biden said of Giuliani, “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11,” and the Onion ran a story headlined, “Giuliani To Run For President Of 9/11.”
But on Friday, Giuliani appeared to have forgotten it ever happened.
In an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Giuliani said, “What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did — one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.”
Of course, 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch. And if he’s counting the failed bombing of Northwest Flight 253 as an attack, then shoe bomber Richard Reid’s own attempt — also during the Bush administration — counts too.
This isn’t the first time Giuliani’s said something like this; on CNN earlier this week, he claimed that the Reid incident occurred before 9/11, which it didn’t.
Steve Benen makes a good point about all this, and about the continued reliance on Giuliani as a terror expert for television:
[L]et’s not forget that this are two angles to this problem. The first is that Rudy Giuliani doesn’t have the foggiest idea what he’s talking about, and routinely lies about basic, easy-to-understand details about recent history and national security. The second is that problems like “Good Morning America” keep inviting him back, despite the fact that he doesn’t have the foggiest idea what he’s talking about, and routinely lies about basic, easy-to-understand details about recent history and national security.
I’d add one other point here: Before 9/11, Giuliani demonstrated pretty clearly that his instincts when it comes to terrorism are lacking when he placed New York City’s emergency command center inside the World Trade Center, which at the time had already been targeted once.
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