The Associated Press has one of the most comprehensive looks at how the lasting outrage at Rudy Giuliani within the firefighter and 9/11 victims communities in New York is going to remain an issue for him during the presidential campaign. Giuliani is effectively running for president on his reputation as “America’s Mayor” following the 9/11 attacks. But by basing his campaign around his version, and to great degree the characterization provided by the non-New York media, on his actions in and around 9/11, he is ensuring that those who remain dissatisfied with his performance will continue to voice their objections to his failures of leadership and subsequent deification as a hero.
The article has too many important segments to quote, but the AP’s discussion of Giuliani’s three prime failures is worth noting. Apologies for the long quotation.
Giuliani, the leader in polls of Republican voters for his party’s nomination, has been faulted on two major issues:
_ His administration’s failure to provide the World Trade Center’s first responders with adequate radios, a long-standing complaint from relatives of the firefighters killed when the twin towers collapsed. The Sept. 11 Commission noted the firefighters at the World Trade Center were using the same ineffective radios employed by the first responders to the 1993 terrorist attack on the trade center.
Regenhard, at a 2004 commission hearing in Manhattan, screamed at Giuliani, “My son was murdered because of your incompetence!” The hearing was a perfect example of the 9/11 duality: Commission members universally praised Giuliani at the same event.
_ A November 2001 decision to step up removal of the massive rubble pile at ground zero. The firefighters were angered when the then-mayor reduced their numbers among the group searching for remains of their lost “brothers,” focusing instead on what they derided as a “scoop and dump” approach. Giuliani agreed to increase the number of firefighters at ground zero just days after ordering the cutback.
More than 5 1/2 years later, body parts are still turning up in the trade center site.
“We want America to know what this guy meant to New York City firefighters,” said Peter Gorman, head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association. “In our experiences with this man, he disrespected us in the most horrific way.”
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Giuliani was also criticized for locating the city’s emergency center in 7 World Trade Center, a building that contained thousands of gallons of diesel fuel when it collapsed after the terrorist attack.
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5 Responses to “More 9/11 Questions For Giuliani Campaign”
Need a short points article on the anthrax at the National Enquirer, killing the journalist who printed the photo of the bush twins drunk and rolling on the floor. This murdered journalist was said to have even more damaging photos of the bush crime family.
Guiliani conveniently had a firm that cleaned up the anthrax while destroying the archive file at National Enquirer, after this journalist wa killed by the anthrax mailed to him.
tell that to vince foster, whos affair with hillary and involvement in embarassing clinton scandals got him killed, and covered up by president BJ
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all three points are horribly misguided, simple smears by socialists trying to change what people saw with their own eyes.
the command center in building 7. this is revisionist history of the worst kind. the fact that giuliani didnt have the command center and still coordinated city wide rescue efforts and held the city together only shows him to be stronger then ever. after ‘93, the wtc was a fortress, impervious to all predictable attacks (car boms etc). no one predicted 9/11 would or could happen, and even those who said a plane might hit the towers by accident were backed up by engineers who for years said the towers were able to withstand a plane crash, and would never collapse. his desire to be in building 7 was so he could be close to the problem if the wtc was attacked again, he would be there on hand to do his job. this is a pathetic attempt to smear a man that even liberal time magazine made person of the year for his actions.
the radios seemed to be fine for every fire the city had before 9/11, there seemed to not be much of a fuss for new radios duirng dinkins’ administration, all of a sudden the radios were bad on 9/11, and its rudy’s fault. what a joke.
Regenhard, like Sheehan, is a coward. they dont have the guts to put the blame on the actual terrorist who committed the murders of their sons, so they blame the visible public official, the easy way out. regenhard would be better served to use some harsh words for the al queda who actually committed the murders. regenhard actions would be like if the goldman’s blamed the nfl for oj killing their son. cowardly parents who failed to protect their own children look for anyone to blame, and since the terrorits are faceless, its so much easier to just say rudy killed them, or bush killed them.
giuliani cleaned up the wtc site, and it wasnt an easy decision. the firefighters wanted unlimited time to sift through the rubble to find fingers and eyeballs, and rudy had to make the tough choice of letting a steaming pile of rubble sit there with scraps of flesh rotting for the world to see, or to begin the long, difficult, clean up. true leaders make tough decisions, popular or not. it may be tough emotionally on the firefighters, but it was the right move to make. thats what being a real leader is about. people like clinton could never make tough choices, like attacking bin laden or arresting khalid mohammed when he had the chance, but chose not to becaue of public opinion. clinton was a coward. giuliani is a hero. these smears have been around for years, and they havent hurt him yet, and wont. people are not as dumb as the left hopes. they saw with their own eyes how this man can lead us through crisis.
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March 30, 2007 at 3:30pm