What? Giuliani’s shamelessly exploiting 9/11 for political gain? Well, that’s surprising. I thought the man had more integrity than that.

All joking aside, Giuliani said Tuesday night at a town hall meeting in Manchester, NH that a Democratic presidential win in 2008 would almost certainly ensure another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. What’s the alternative to thousands of American civilians being killed you ask? Giuliani has the obvious answer. “If any Republican is elected president —- and I think obviously I would be the best at this — we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it.”

What’s good for liberals is that Giuliani, a faux-conservative, is currently leading in national polls for the Republican nomination. Giuliani seemed to further ignore the reality of our current situation by claiming Democrats would cause more death and take longer to defeat terrorism. Giuliani said America would eventually prevail no matter what party won, “But the question is how long will it take and how many casualties will we have?” He continued, “If we are on defense [with a Democratic president], we will have more losses and it will go on longer.” Giuliani then said Democrats will “wave the white flag on Iraq”.

“This war ends when they stop coming here to kill us!” Giuliani said in his speech. “Never, ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for [terrorists] to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!”

Giuliani then showed his true ignorance on Middle-Eastern affairs by claiming that Israeli and American occupation was completely unrelated to the terrorism arising from the people under those occupations. Giuliani seemed to channel George W. Bush by claiming that the driving force for terrorists is not their want for freedom, but their disdain for it. He said “[Terrorists] hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine. They hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.”

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