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Re: Five Reasons Giuliani's No Hero 

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Mon, 12 Sep 11 7:33 PM | 57 view(s)
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BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! clo, that's the best you got in your support of the filth blogged by The New York Slimes crackpot, Krugman?! ROTFLMAO at you, dearie! You reach back to some delusional musings from 2004 of another leftist crackpot, Jonathan Greenberg, about how the Republicans supposedly annointed Giuliani as some kind of all-conquering hero, eh? BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Ah, clo ... you need to re-learn recent history ... Republicans didn't deify Giuliani ... they quickly showed him the door in the 2008 primary. As for Giuliani being Time magazine's 2001 Person of the Year ... well, if you don't like their assessment, I suggest you take it up with Time. Wow, clo ... this oblique defense of yours for Krugman is really, really lame, even by your usual pathetic posting standards, dearie! BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

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Five Reasons Giuliani's No Hero
By: clo in POPE
Mon, 12 Sep 11 1:52 PM 		Msg. 43107 of 65535

Five Reasons Giuliani's No Hero
The GOP hopes that Giuliani's post-9/11 glow will impress, but there's a lot about his past that isn't so heroic.
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5) Refusal to Acknowledge Mistakes or Apologize

In the section concerning the city's response to the World Trade Center, the 9/11 Commission wrote, "Effective decision-making in New York was hampered by problems in command and control and in internal communications." Firefighters inside the towers didn't hear what was being transmitted on police rescuers' radios, or learned news of collapsing floors from emergency calls made to 911 operators.

At a New York hearing last May, 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman noted that at the time of the attacks, the city's command, control and communication systems were "not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city." Although he had been mayor for eight years following the first terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, Giuliani never repaired the communications problems that plagued the city. A McKinsey & Co. report found that on September 11, New York's fire chiefs were working with defective radios and often could not communicate their orders to evacuate. The same radio system, they observed, had failed eight years earlier. Far from taking responsibility or apologizing, when Giuliani appeared before the 9/11 Commission, he called the city's emergency response "unbelievably capable" and "terrifically effective." Giuliani's testimony was repeatedly interrupted by the angry protests of relatives of victims. Monica Gabrielle, whose husband was killed in the attacks, complained afterward that the panel and Giuliani spent the morning "cloaking everything in heroism. We leave frustrated," she concluded. "They made a huge faux pas in letting Rudy Giuliani polish his crown."

The American public should not make the same mistake. Hero coronations are for autocracies, not democracies like ours. 

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