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Giuliani: Terrorists Never Attacked When Bush Protected Us
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 8, 2010
Modified Jan 8, 2010
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Wha? Mister 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, went on Good Morning America this morning to bash President Obama for weakly handling his precious "war on terror." Obama, you see, has been going about this all wrong—for one thing, he shouldn't be giving terror suspects civilian trials or closing Guantanamo. Also, he hasn't been chanting the magic phrase "war on terror" enough! And look what happens. "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."
Naturally, GMA host George Stephanopoulos, ever the professional journalist tool, knows it would be churlish to ask Giuliani what the shit he's talking about. (Also, is 9/11 the newest addition to the GOP memory hole? In November, George W. Bush's former press secretary Dana Perino told Fox News, "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.") As Joe Biden said during the Democratic Primary, "There's only three things Rudy Giuliani mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11." So is it too much to hope Rudy's sudden bout of amnesia will finally shut him up? Video:
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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