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Patrick Holman, Lafayette, California — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:21:28 GMT

Congressman Ron Paul wins again. He wins because he tells the truth and not the collectivist agenda. But let's get to Rudy.

Did Mayor Giuliani have 11 fire fighters including a captain and a fire marshal ARRESTED when they demonstrated against plans to cut the number of their colleagues from searching for fallen firefighters?

Were 250 firefighters unaccounted for when Giuliani swept up the remains of our heroes and deposited them in the city dump?

Did the change coincided with the recovery of some 200 million in gold bullion stored under the WTC towers?

Did Peter Gorman, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers’ Association, say that the mayor’s decision had made the recovery work “a scoop and dump operation”? “He cared more about the gold than our fallen brothers. It’s despicable.”

Did Rudy say that he worked as long or longer than our heroes on Ground Zero?

Did he say, “I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I’m one of them,” he told reporters at a Los Angeles Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds baseball game? And of course, after the lie, did he say, “I misspoke"?

Did Rudy say that New York was well prepared for terrorist attacks?
Is the truth that Giuliani didn’t set up the OEM until 27 months after his election? Jerry Hauer, who was handpicked by Giuliani to head the OEM, testified before the 9/11 Commission that Giuliani was “unable to get the full story” at the firebombing and “heard about the huge street collapse” that followed the water-main break “on TV,” adding: “That’s what led the mayor to set up OEM.” Did Rudy really do anything before or after 9/11 to secure anyone?

Did Rudy say he’s against NAFTA Superhighway?
Freelance columnist Dianne M. Grassi broke the story of Giuliani’s law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, acting as the exclusive legal counsel for Cintra, the Spanish firm that has been granted the right to operate a toll road in the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) project. Grassi comments, “Most interesting to the whole story is not only has Giuliani’s involvement in the NAFTA Superhighway not ever having been publicly addressed, but how a foreign company is awarded the building of a mass highway system, versus maintaining it, for the first time in U.S. history, and negotiated by the law firm of the top Republican candidate running for President of the United States.” Is Rudy for the North American Free Trade Agreement? And why is he helping out of Country companies, and not American companies do construction?

Did Rudy say he’s an expert on terrorism?
When confronted by a Congressman during the debates on what the CIA calls “blowback” for the reasons behind the 9/11 attacks, did Rudy say that he had “...never heard of such a ridiculous reason for 9/11 in his life!”? Did the 9/11 Commission Report, the CIA, and the FBI all site “blowback” for the cause of terrorism?

Does Rudy Giuliani know what's going on in the world?

Has he studied up on what terrorism is all about?

Does he just repeat what think tanks tell him?

And finally: Has Giuliani earned $9.2 million in speaking fees since 2006?

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nuanced — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:35:40 GMT

Republicans (especially Ron Reagan) have always believed that a good story is better than the truth and will continue to use it even after factual errors are pointed out.

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Randy A. Winooski, VT — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:17:07 GMT

Hey Montanaro, you know... you could ask Rudy's camp to give you a list of the 23. You know, like a journalist might do, before posting something so stupid!

I don't know the 23, he was talking about... but if I were going to write this online, on NBC's web site, I might ask his people to back it up, before I run something that seems to imply he was exaggerating.

I suspect (though I don't know) that the list would include attacks originating in the UK, Germany, and across Europe, in which Americans were the intended targets. How about the Fort Dix Six? How about the Lackawanna Six? The Detroit Sleeper Cell? Those guys in Florida? How about the 2 SFU students being held as we speak (I know, you libs in the media are ignoring the damning developments, after you initially tried to downplay them as "kids with fireworks")? How about the Lodi, CA guys?

Yeah, I could go on and on, but you libs in the media have short memories... You're much more fond of quoting "experts" who are "speaking on anonymity". Bang up job, guy.

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John S. Alexander, Edinboro, PA — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:00 GMT

Recently intelligence gave the Bush pigs the Osama video before it was posted by Al Queda, they immediatly posted it and Al Queda knew their was an insider in the organization, how about that for stupidity. George and company screw us again with their propaganda ploys over real "INTELLIGENCE". Can we trust anyone in this party to do what is right instead of what will keep us afraid? Not so far.

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Jim Rave — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:36:26 GMT

#23 is and always will be Michael Jordan

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HMT-MI — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:02:28 GMT

I believe the Bush Pigs that recieved this leak and posted it was the great FOX news.You know the Fox white house.

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Liam SoCal — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:45:30 GMT

Way to go, Randy. Open up and let all that slavish devotion to what they tell you hang out there. As for your list, the guys at Fort Dix had no plan, nothing other than some childish scheme. They weren't terrorists, they were morons. Ditto Lackawana. The Detroit Sleeper Cell wasn't. They, too, were morons. Is that Rudy's great anti-terror message? The US is smarter than morons? Forgive me if I'm not impressed.