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Posted by robertgreenwald on September 6th, 2007
The REAL Rudy: Command Center

"It's just not possible."

That was the sentence we heard over and over from families who had firefighter sons, brothers, husbands and fathers killed on 9/11, from experts on emergency response, and from investigative journalists.  It was just not possible that Rudy could so distort what happened on 9/11 and his role on that terrible day.

These experts, these grieving and furious family members, were united only by the fact that this story had to be told.  Republicans, Independents, and Democrats could agree on just one thing:  the cold hard facts about Rudy's terrible handling of 9/11 and the aftermath.

And so we went to work.  We researched, we read, we interviewed.  Jason locked himself in a quiet room. Christopher flew across the country at a moment's notice to interview.  Lissette went over and over the footage.  Leda kept juggling schedules so we could get the film done.  Jimmy worked the phones to try and raise some funds.

And here it is… The REAL Rudy: Command Center.  The first of a devastating four-part series.

We need your help.  We don't have ad budgets, so like all our videos, we are counting on you to spread these to your email list, to your local paper, to blogs, to websites.  We are fortunate that today we have the new technology and ability to reach millions, but it only happens when you send the video with notes to as many people as possible.

  • KS
    I'd say he was complicit in the attacks of September 11th 2001. He knew in advance. We think of the victims that day, the fear they must have felt, their suffering and loss and the people they left behind, but there are people like him who don't see that. Putting his command center in WTC7 wasn't a mistake. The demolition of the towers was most likely controlled from there and, despite nothing hitting it, WTC7 dropped later that day. No evidence left. The guy is a scumbag, but smart and doesn't have idiocy as an excuse, like Bush. Most frightening is that if he's running for president there are people who support him, an accessory to mass murder. Look at him.
  • Jeffrey T. Walsh
    I am not all together sure what Rudy's failers were pre 9/11 except that he had a my way or the high way mentality.I do however know this.As a New Yorker ,he had first hand exsperience of the disaster that was 9/11 his fellow New Yorkers counted on him to avenge that day.he wowfully let us down.This guy should have been the first one to grab this President (I us the term losely) by the scruf of the neck and demand that he go after Bin Ladden the person responsible for the deaths of his fellow New Yorkers, and he should have done this before this President sent our young men and women to die ,going after the wrong man.As a New Yorker I know the shell game,I don't play it.How could anybody support this guy for president,he choose to be a Republican in front of being an American.,and given how bad he let us New Yorkers down ,how could we trust him to not do the same at the national level.this stuff about a proven leader is a line of shit.I know this, on 9/11 on went to my local hospital and gave blood, and to this day I haven't gotten any back and it pisses me off like you wouldn't believe that Bin Ladden is stll running around planning to hurt us again 6 years later,and this guy has done nothing to avenge that day,what the hell is wrong with us that we have allowed this guy to ride these coat tails of dead Americans this far .He should have been stopped a long time ago.It is amazing!!! it's absolutly amazing.And the most pittiful part is that he and his war monger buddy's are laughing all the way to the bank.We need to wake the fuck up and stop allowing stuff like this to continue, please lets get going here ,stand up and be heard, time is of the esence
  • Dan
    Unfortunately, defective equipment is not a rare thing in Fire departments throughout the nation (neither are defective bridge as we have seen). Managers have the work with the budgets they have. Maybe if we sent less on social programs and failed school systems we'd have more tax money for the kind of things that could benefit all citizens like safe bridges and top of the line equipment. You should see some of the equipment that the FBI has to work with sometimes like antiquated computer systems. A lot of people have grudges against Rudy because he doesn't put up with slackers and dead wood. What his detractors are doing is putting the worst possible spin on what was a really bad situation for everybody that day. Rudy is a tough guy and tough guys make a lot of enemies that is why the mob almost put a contract on his head but he stood up to them just like he stood up to the Arab prince who while offering one million dollars to NY city on 911 also tried to insinuate that in a way we had it coming to us. On 911, Rudy was not a coward and he did not run from the scene, he almost got trapped there that day.
    Here is an extract from what Time magazine was saying about him back then:
    “Sixteen hours had passed since the Twin Towers crumbled and fell, and people kept telling Rudy Giuliani to get some rest. The indomitable mayor of New York had spent the day and night holding his city together. He raced to the scene as the second plane hit, watched human beings drop from the sky, and nearly got trapped inside his makeshift command center when the south tower imploded.”
    “http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/winner.html
    Let’s not also forget that he was knighted for his was knighted by the Queen of England for his admirable conduct during 911.
    Of course, Rudy has made mistakes, and so has anybody who cannot predict the future accurately. One thing is for sure, his performance sure beats Ray –where are the bus keys- Nagin’s during Katrina. This is nothing but a disgraceful hit job on the part of the NYFD UNION who notoriously support the Democrats time and time again.
    I will be voting for Rudy Giuliani if given a chance.
  • Ederlore
    You think Bush jr. is bad, just wait if Giuliani gets into the W.H. It's the NeoConservatives plan to completely destroy the United States goverment. "drown it in the bathtub" so they can turn it over to private corporations. That's why they are bent on destroying our military so Blackwater can take it's place. This prevents oversite and gives them almost complete control of taxpayer's money. With another Republican rubber stamp Congress in place it will complete PNAC's plan and America will cease to exist. The Constitution will be ripped to shreds and we will, for all intents and purposes, be a complete fascist nation run completely by giant corporations and the wealthiest 1%. Aren't you glad you vote GOP?
  • Giuliani, Is another Bush. New York City was a "sanctuary city" under Giuliani. Giuliani's law firm is working on the NORTH AMERICAN UNION. He is a liar and Globalist. DO YOU WANT ANOTHER BUSH? DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE THE LAST OF YOUR FREEDOMS? VOTE FOR RUDI....
  • Dominick A. DiTaranto
    Unbelievable.
    That’s the only word that comes to my mind when I hear that this under qualified, immoral, dishonest, idiot can be considered seriously for the office of the Presidency. I am completely disgusted, and ashamed with the way this country is headed, especially since the bush administration has hijacked our government, and made us enemies around the world. The media is very much to blame. As I watched the last Fox Republican Debate, my stomach turned as I heard the commentator ask question after question to Rudy. And then to have to listen to his sly answers, as if he was some kind of celebrity. This guy needs to be exposed to the masses soon, and stopped in his dirty tracks. There has to be some way to do this! If not, I’m afraid he may become the winning candidate going against that crazy hillary person. Don’t be a sheep!!!!! Wake Up!!!!
  • Dominick A. DiTaranto
    If this opens the eyes of one Rudy supporter, then it’s working. I am completely disgusted with our choices for president…..except for one man who stands above the rest, and that man is Ron Paul. I have never before contributed to any kind of campaign, not even bought a bumper sticker, until now. I pray that Ron Paul gets the nomination, so there will be some hope for our country and my children. If any one of the Democrates or Republicans gets elected, then it’s the same old corruption, and who knows where they will lead us?, maybe to or ultimate doom?….most likely, I’m afraid. This current administration needs to pay for the crimes it has committed against it’s own people, and the world, and electing any of these other boffunes will just be a sequel to this nightmare. My friend had a great idea….On the presidential election there should be a ” None Of The Above” column, and if that was the majority vote, then the election process would have to start all over again….with different candidates. As far as Rudy is concerned, I wrote what I felt about him below on “therealrudy.org” and it pretty much sums up how I feel. God Bless us all….stay safe.
  • What a friggen LIAR, I can't believe he is sitting lying to the entire country...
  • Ron Paul
    I am a lifetime conservative but I have to say, I might be forced to vote for Hillary if this NAZI imitator is elected.
  • joe avello
    Why isn't this 'stuff' being reported on mainstream media? Maybe these videos should be used much as the swift boat ads from the 2004 elections were used. I don't believe the 'average american' is aware of any of this but I do believe that if he were he would be disturbed by it.
  • CAROL DELUCA
    WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON ILLIGAL ALIENS
  • Betsy Miller
    They planned this attack on the World trade center and made sure it would be the media event to sway the public opinion and start their dirty wars, profiting with their own companies and killing countless
    inncocent people for their polital economic plans to remain in power. Guilliani is in the Bush cartel! Lord have mercy!
    Are these guys all cocaine addicts? How can they be SO HEARTLESS !
    I express my deepest sympathy an support to all the families and partners and loved ones of these MURDERED people, and to our troops and the citizens of Irak and Iran and other countries. May they somehow be protected from this administrations greed and corruption, attempting overtaking several countries for oil and uranium profits, and the love of money and power. Regenerative energy now!
  • Bob Grabelsky
    About 15 years ago there was a devastating T.V. movie about Rudy starring James Woods. The portrait drawn was not only of a psychopath but of a wild and crazy psychopath. It was a an HBO movie I think but not sure. Believe me, if that movie was shown today no one would vote for Rudy except perhaps Bin Laden.Could someone try to dig it up?
  • Brian
    Giuliani is dangerous and unfortunately, he may be the next logical candidate for '08 after 8 years of the criminal Bush Administration. Giuliani is complicit in the shadowy events of 9/11 which have yet to be properly investigated. We are all complicit if we don't hold these bastards accountable. Investigate 9/11!!!!
  • vaughn fulkerson
    Giuliani has posed as a leader and hero. This can not be true if you also suspect the Bush administration of being complicit at least passively in the 911 massacre. The mayor of the target city would not be kept in the dark of a pending mock attack, and from his actions, years in advance even (such as with the radios and choice of command centers) he shows his true colors. He is simply a gangster and a traitor. Any vote for this man will hasten the country and the planet in its rush to hell. Investigate what he and others really did on 911 and why. Who benefitteted from the attack? Who profitted?
  • claude
    RUDY JULIE ANNIE is one sorry SOB that if you could get the truth,he would and should be in jail!He knew ahead of 9/11what was going to happen,how many deals has he made with the DEVIL
  • Sharon Haywood
    This is disgraceful.
  • clyde
    why is he laughing? Also everyone needs to focus on the CFR and its plans for the Futur of the United States or lack there of. 911 truth is out but our leadership doesn't care because its part of the plan we need to stop where it is instead of where it was.
  • Jim Lundberg
    Gee, I wonder why Giuliani didn't get elected to NY Senator? I lived in Poughkeepsie, NY on 9/11 and none of the people there like Rudy or his decisions to stop searching for remains by hand, and instead switched to bulldozing instead. Even Silverstein admitted to "pulling" building 7 and "watched it collapse".
  • Ann Lundberg
    Devastating. I never knew what Rudy did on that day that "made us safe." Now I know: he showed up on the site for the TV cameras.
  • Myrna Boggioni
    What I can't understand is why interviewers like Chris Wallace don't hold Giuliani's feet to the flame. Why is there no follow-up questions that ask, okay Mr. Giuliani if your advisor said okay put the command center why does this letter contradict what you say. Follow up each lie with a question that demands that he prove his lie. The press never holds him or any of the other politicians to the flame.
  • Craig Finnegan
    Giuliani seems like a character in a bad movie. That an "advanced" country like America can produce and then legitimize a guy who laughs at his own corruption is downright scary to me.
  • Rudy Giuliani is a typical recycel conservative who is trying to play on both
    side of the fence.Only in America he can get
    away with this kind of irresponsible behavior and run for the highest office of the country.God help America !
  • Rud is just another example a Government corruption at it's fullest. All anyone in government latley has been concerned about is the amount of money they can amass for them selves. IT'S A SHAME THAT WE CAN'T TRUST OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!
  • Jennifer
    Rudy, Hillary and O'Brahama are just puppets. If you want to vote for a person who wants to bring America back to the way our founding fathers imagined check out Ron Paul for president @ www.ronpaul2008.com
  • Peter Leahey
    Rudy need a place with a private elevator, so he could go there with his girl friend at the time, since he was still married to his second wife.
  • Cooke
    Please post the section where rudy lies to Chris W regarding the command center with Mr. Heur's response on Youtube by itself.

    This will help with short attention spans.
  • Helen Fritz
    Since we Know for sure that our President has done alot of lying and damage this past 7 years, Why would any one wants more of this same sort of Lying to remain in office ?? Rudy can lie straight faced or with a Smile, but still remain calm and uneffected, even when he is caught. So this proves Rudy is another George Bush . LIAR at heart.
  • Dale L. Dunn
    Rudy G. is garbage!! Before 911 he couldn't get himself elected dogcatcher!! He's a liar and a cheat! His favorite thing to do while he was mayor was to indite a cop for anything he could possibly imagine. God help us all if he becomes President!!
  • Kenshin
    a response to all the comments Dennis Bernal has left. Do you really consider yourself a patriot? I will not try to argue with you or try to reason with you, since i sincerely doupt anyone can reason with you. I am just gonna give you 2 quotes said by TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS, yes the founding fathers oh and 1 from a NAZI leader during the Nuremberg trials:

    "Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. "
    - Hermann Goering, Nuremberg Trials

    "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security "- Benjamin Franklin

    "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. "
    -George Washington

    "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. "
    -George Washington

    "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. "
    -George Washington

    "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
    -George Washington
  • Diane
    The lemmings who continue to believe Rudy's lies in the face of the truth - the man who Rudy says told him to put the Command Center in the World Trade Center says he DID NOT tell him that - are suicidal. Rudy is exactly like George W. Bush: A liar. Those guys don't know what truth is. Disgusting. Disastrous!
  • c cooper
    i'm not sure that he did
  • Benihana
    Don't tase me bro.... I'm just asking a question, Sorry the truth about ROOOOODY and the inside job hurts sooooooo much. Please see Reflecting Pool the Movie! Until it's out check out Who Killed John O'Neill: wkjo.com PEACE before profit.
  • Thomas J May
    Lets hope that Rudy Giuliani doesn't have the chance to put faulty equipment in the hands of our serviceman and women, like he did the FDNY.
  • Perry Lawrence
    Talk to Jimmy Bresllin.
  • abkelly
    Why isn't anyone putting the blame on all those lives lost where it belongs?Clinton let 5 acts of war go unpunished.He had 3 chances to get bin laden and chose not to and emboldened the terrorist.So please put the blame where it belongs on the clintons.
  • abkelly
    Why isn't anyone putting the blame on all those lives lost where it belongs?Clinton let 5 acts of war go unpunished.He had 3 chances to get bin laden and chose not to and emboldened the terrorist.So please put the blame where it belongs on the clintons.
  • Lois J.
    He forgot to move the Command Center after 1993; he was too busy trolling after Judi Nathan while publicly dumping his wife.....
  • SaMM
    A working radio system for firefighters wasn't a priority? So many needless dead. Families without a Dad, a brother, a son, because of this decision. Do we need to put someone who thinks like this in a position to make more life-and-death decisions?
  • dead eye dick
    Republican Canidates llok like NAZI CLOWNS for bush ha ha a aha
    big big repuke 2008 lose

    POt hole rudy wont even make the run offs
  • Pete Fiorillo
    The so called man is a jackass. Not only did he place the Command Center at The WTC, but he put it on the 23 rd floor. It was nothing more than rubbing sh!t in the faces of the NYFD, and more so, The NYPD. the NYPD has a command center that was decent enough and could have been upgraded, if necessary, but Rudy wanted to show them who the boss was. He hired on VanEssen, Kerik, and that loser for OEM, and he could care less.

    The BEST thing that ever happened to that miserable excuse for a human being was 9/11, otherwise he would have been packing shelves in Gristedes.

    He dodged a lot of bullets because of the tragedy when he should have been criticized for many things he did, especially in the waning days of his administration.

    Look how many years it took for the Command Center issue to be looked at as it is now. He should have been denounced in the first days after.

    If you are ever in London, go visit Churchill's HQ where he ran the war from. It is small and unpretentious, but it served England well throughout the war.
  • Right after the 9/11 Commission Report was released in July 2004, Rudy Giuliani appeared on Larry King to discuss the report and 9/11. At one point during the program, he stated that he avoided Lower Manhattan because it made him "just so angry."

    As a Financial District employee, I was outraged by his comment, particularly because he has frequently taken positions on the rebuilding process that would be extremely harmful to my community if implemented. Yes Rudy, it was your city that was attacked, but it was our neighborhood. Do you think we are not angry? And yet we are here, every single day. We can't avoid 9/11; we don't have that choice. It's okay if you can't handle it--not everyone can--but don't hold yourself up as a pillar of strength. Don't present yourself as "America's mayor" when you continually ignore those in your own city who have suffered unspeakable violence.

    If you walk the streets downtown, you will run into heroes all over the place. They are the residents who, despite untold physical and emotional suffering, returned to their damaged homes. They are the small business owners who lost everything and put in backbreaking hours to rebuild. Every single one of these people has done more to help our city recover from 9/11 than Rudy Giuliani has ever done.

    I am so sick of hearing people talk about that man's "leadership" on 9/11. He has done nothing before or since that in any way demonstrated true leadership. As soon as the worst of the crisis was over, a true leader would sit down and take a close look at everything that went wrong, including his own mistakes. Not only has Giuliani not done that, but he has actually gone out of his way to obscure the record on all of his failings. Only a coward does that.

    Rudy Giuliani's many failures before, during and immediately after 9/11 were due to lack of competence. His refusal to be open about those failures and his attempt to run for president on the back of the 9/11 community are due to lack of character. As far as I'm concerned, this man is not fit to serve in ANY public office ever again.
  • Martin Bregman
    He's a thoroughgoing authoritarian without any sense of the Bill of Rights.
  • Kevin
    I understand Rudy had an apartment set up, at taxpayer expense, in the "command center," with a private elevator, and that he used this apartment for trysts with his girlfriend Judi Nathan while he was married to someone else. If I remember correctly, Rudy had insisted that the command center be within walking distance of his office, despite all the professional advice to locate the command center far from any potential targets. In other words, it was more important that Rudy have a "love nest" close to his office, than to have an emergency command center located where it could have been useful during the attacks.
  • Ann Singleton
    I appreciate your getting out the word. How this clown has gotten this far is beyond my comprehension, except for the fact that we still have a Bush in office. The reason I am commenting is that I voted "the command center was in the target" twice but my vote was turned down each time because both of my email addresses were turned down because they were "invalid".
  • Brian Hamilton
    Here are those two links as tiny URLs:

    Rudy says he was TOLD that the world trade center was going to collapse:
    http://tinyurl.com/2ru23u

    Article and more video clips:
    http://tinyurl.com/2nztwm
  • Brian Hamilton
    Rudy was TOLD that the world trade center was going to collapse in advance, and even admitted it in an interview with Peter Jennings on 9/11.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8288604...

    He didn't say he "thought" or he "heard" -- he said he was TOLD. Who told him?
    Ghouliani has been running form that question like the plague on the campaign trail. See the article and video clips at this link:

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/29...
  • tom patrick
    Rudy is just another example of corrupt and failed government. God help us all if he or anyone like him wins in 08.
  • Anonymous
    RON PAUL IS A REPUBLICAN. THEREFORE HE IS A SHIT!!!
  • Gene
    I have e-mailed and phoned many of my local Congressmen with a solution to the Iraq War. And that is this. Congress will draft a law requiring all REGISTERED REPUBLICANS from the age of 18 up to 64 to immediately report to their local recrutiing office for immediate compulsary military service in Iraq (to allieviate the strain on our troops already serving there). This service is manditory and will include all REGISTERED REPUPLICANS regardless of military time served or lack thereof. It will also include all branches of the Government, both civilian and executive, legislative and judicial. NO ONE IS EXEMPT. This will include President Bush, his wife and daughters all of his brothers, VP Cheney, Dr. Rice RUDY GUILIANI AND ALL OF HIS OTHER DRAFT-DODGING CRONIES and almost all of the cabinet, ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO SERVE A MANDATORY TOUR OF 15 MONTHS IN IRAQ. NO EXCEPTIONS. THE WAR SHOULD END WITHIN THREE MONTHS TOPS (TO CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES TO THE FINAL TROOPS COMING HOME).
  • Joe Carson
    Rudy said to a visting sheik from Saudi Arabia in effect go to hell when the sheik tried to explain to him why terrorists did what they did 9/11.
  • Gene
    Isn't it very convenient that Adolf Hitleriani just "happened" to be in Madrid one day before the 3/11/04 attacks. He was at a "conference" relaced to security concerns. And even more coincidential that he happened to be in London on 7/7/05 when those bombings took place. On that day he was even quoted on all of the European newspapers as saying: "I thought I was reliving 9/11 in my home city".

    Maybe Bush and his cronite used Hitleriani (and his Mafia friends) to pull off the attacks). It's just way too coincidential that Hitleriani should be in both places during or shortly before two devestating terrorist attacks. And oh yeah. He's in London today. Isn't he? I know he and his 'twink" cronies will try to spin this to pretend that "he" was the target. But then how did these bombers know his schedule?
  • Gene
    Like YOU Gwen? If you have time to come on this website in the morning, I guess you don't have a job either. MORON!
  • Gene
    Julie Rudiani is nothing more than a draft-dodging little punk. His wife Rudy at least has the true balls in that family. I also heard that she also gives a mean blowjob, (but not as good as Julie). How else did he graduate from law school. Just ask anyone of his old law school professors.
  • Rudy is a shameful little thug, who married his cousin; therfore, I'm sure plenty of Republicans will support his.
  • Jeanie Chancellor
    Rudy did a FANTASTIC job in New York & after 9/11. The police & fire unions don't like him because he is a Rupublican & does not bow done to the unions. The rank & file policemen & firemen love him. The reason you are running him down is because you know he can beat the Hill who should go to hell. I bet you don't run this one. All you want is the bad stuff!
  • ev
    I thought Rudy did a great job with 9/11
  • Bill Smith
    Rudy's BIGGEST failure on 9/11 was not warning others that the twin towers were going to collapse. He is on video, interviewed by Peter Jennings, when he stated that he "was told" that the buildings were going to collapse.

    Who told him this and why did someone say this considering that NO steel framed high rise building had EVER collapsed due to fire before. (this happened ONLY on 9/11 and happened to THREE buildings.) Many steel framed high rise buildings had burned for MANY more hours and were far hotter yet they did not collapse.

    And... if Rudy knew they were going to collapse, why didn't he warn everyone?
  • Ruth Davis
    I was really considering voting for Rudy Julienne, but when I see that he did not bother to show up for the debate hosted by Joseph Farrah from WND, a popular Christian site, I have decided to move on and look for another candidate to vote for and to work for their endeavor. This is such an insult.
  • Bill Clinton
    I'm with Rudy !

    I really hate my Hillary !!!
  • Helen T Mosley
    Why did Giuliani send the workers from Tower 2 back into the building when Tower 2 had been evacuated and there was an out of control fire in the Plaza with people jumping out windows? Did he think that anyone would get work done that day?
  • Steve Moore
    Who called Rudy on 9/11/01 to tell him to evacuate building 7 just before the planes hit on that day?
  • Austin Lowrey
    amen!
  • Margo Kasdan
    Terrifying to think he might become President of the USA if there's "another terrorist attack," or the election is once again stolen, or the Dems can't get elected because a woman or a black is running on that ticket, and the rest of America would never vote for either ....
  • Anonymous
    Rudy has failed us in so many ways. He put the command center in the World Trade Center, even though he was told not to do it. There were too many deaths that day due to his decision.
  • Jean Standish
    Hopefully, this information will be widely released to the public and the media. Guiliani is basing a major portion of his presidential campaign on 9/11, and his ability to deal with security and terrorism.
  • Efrain Melendez
    Giuliani is an arrogant thug that divided the city along racial lines. He has no use for blacks or hispanics unless they are willing to cowtow to his every whim just look at his record reguarding police brutality.
  • massimo
    Please forgive my awkward grammar...
    mr
  • Walter Morse
    Rudy's a political hack!
  • matt
    note the junior senator from new york did nothing in her senate career to help keep nyc safe. she should be impeached for her neglagence, as she has failed as a senator for ny.
  • matt
    can anyone here tell me when nyc officials were ever alerted to a possible aerial attack? can anyone tell me where nyc officials were alerted that a plane crash could collapse the wtc? every engineer said those building would withstand a plane crash, and after 93 bombing the wtc was a fortress, so much so terrorist abbandoned the idea of truck bombs because giuliani made it impossible. it took an attack no one in nyc foresaw to topple the buildings. the second guess and play revisionist is simply pathetic. liberals like the ones who run this site are why rudy will win this election and be the next president. people like you and moveon and michael moore are gifts to the GOP.
  • ROGER D SCOTT
    I think He was guilty of all 6.
  • Michael Davidson
    Giuliani is a Republican. They are vile excuses for human beings, and simply don't care about anything other than money.
  • Greg Callow
    Rudy Failed us on 9/11 because he chose a site for the Emergency Command Center based on Cronyism and not what was best for New York City.
  • Anonymous
    I WAS WORKING THAT DAY AS AN FDNY DISPATCHER IN BROOKLYN.
    I SPOKE TO FRIENDS/FIREFIGHTERS WHO WERE ALL RESPONDING INTO THE WTC.
    THERE WERE QUITE A FEW I NEVER SPOKE TO AGAIN.
    JERRY HAUER HAS A VERY GOOD REPUTATION AS A STAND UP GUY.
    WHEN I LISTENED TO THIS INTERVIEW, I FEEL NAUSEOUS.
    RIP GUYS
  • He allowed the WTC debris to be removed without a criminal investigation of the collapse. He was assigned to do a coverup of evidense and prevent a conviction of the Bush administration as the crooks that casued the catastrophe..
  • His big crime is the removal of the WTC debris removal without a thorough criminal analysis of the collapse. That was a clear coverup of evidense that would have implicated the Bush administration in creating the disaster.
  • K. Searle
    He is so narcissistic that "everything is about HIM!" His only focus, up until then, had been upon himself! So too has his focus been since 9/11. Did you ever watch the video of him after his re-election for mayor. He was absolutely manic! It was obvious that he was so carried away by his victory that he had pathological "delusions of grandeur," bordering on the grandiose, and possibly psychotic! He was unbelievely delusional! Watch it sometime! Since I live in NJ, I watched it all on local TV.
  • Mark Triggs
    The bigger the lie, the bigger the chance it will be believed. Certain credulous beings will succomb to auhority figures time and time again. Hopefully their numbers are rather small, for waking them up is virtually impossible. That Rudy Guiliani could actually become a leading candidate for the Presidency, as Geo Bush did, is perhaps the most tragic phenomenon playing out in our nation, because it is clear that conservative corporate control of major media continues to distort, or else ignore the truth on virtually all major issues. Corporate America has its thumb on the MSM and many of our representives, who in turn ramp up the false threats on any number of fronts. We can only difuse the fear mongering of a Rudy Guiliani, a Bush or Cheney, when enough Americans emphatically defy these incessant fear tactics and wake-up to the fact that democracy is down for the count. Use it or lose it. Shopping therapy will not "git 'er dun". We also have a great number of Americans who just flat out don't give a crap, and are perhaps an even bigger problem than all the authoritarian conservatives who must have a stern father figure to feel safe. It's been said that in a democracy we get the government we deserve. If that is true, it is already gone, and we have moved in to the dictatorship phase. We certainly would have to start process all over again with Rudy for a King. Which leaves us with Queen Hillary as an alternative. The cycle of samasara continues.
  • tim sindt
    How did Rudy know wtc7 was going to collapse? A steel frame building NEVER HAD COLLASPED due only to fire. Rudy keeps telling us he's the "hero" of 9/11, and all he did was run away, having previously made sure the departments could'nt communicate. He also had very little to do with the lessening of crime in NVC as mayor, Legal abortion did more. The numbers were already falling when he took over. He did, however manage to lock up every black man not in a suit and tie
  • Bill
    We all seem to forget that the Command Center was in he heavily-reinforced WTC 7.

    WTC 7 had NOT been damaged in the attack. There were a couple of little office fires, but not near the command center floor.

    The only reason for Rudy NOT to have used the command center right off the bat seems straight-forward enough: He knew it was going to be "pulled" or demolished, too..

    As, apparently, did all the other tenants of WTC 7.

    Has anyone heard/seen anything about evacuation efforts in WTC 7? I've heard them about the hotel neighbor. But not about WTC 7. Or have I missed something?
  • Don Stacey
    The official story about what happened on 911 is a lie. And Rudy is deeply complicit in the coverup. For instance, he ordered the shipment of the debris from the WTC shipped out of the country before the investigation of the crime scene could be done. In fact there was no effort to find out what caused the towers to collapse. Instead the media bombarded us with stories of Osama bin Laden and Al Quaida having attacked us.

    The worst crime of the century and it was not investigated as a crime. Rudy is a traitor.
  • Imhotep
    Maybe, he had higher political ambitions to sit in the Oval office.
  • Dennis Bernal
    Get real people, Rudy will keep us safe, or have we forgotten that there hasn't been a terrorist attack in America since 9/11, I guess the "Dem-ons" are willing to risk one. Right on Rudy for defending General Patraeus via a full page ad! New York Times had better given him the same price or a boycott of their paper would have taken in effect, but I guess that wouldn't matter because their circulation numbers are already down. Thats right you far left "neosocialist," the battle is on, you "Donks" want the White House so bad so you can turn it into a society of sloths. Well, for all of us who respect the idea of self-reliance and self-discipline, Rudy is here to make sure America stays a country of innovation and self-respect. Thank you for your time, and join Rudy at joinrudy2008.com, so that we can assure that our future generations will enjoy a life of fearlessness, of terrorism, and prosperity. Visit the Rudy website and absorb his 12 commitments, for there is no other candidate better qualified to be President.
  • Grand Overture
    Mauro yes, Rudi no.
  • CHARLES GERST
    RUDY WILL BE HUNG!
  • maryt
    President Bush has given the same speech 4 times about Iraq. Gen. Petraus has lost his integrity by being a puppet. We are putting young men in harm's way in middle of civil war where we dont belong. This is another VietNam. The shites ,kurds and sunnis have beeen warring for 1 thousand years. Our young men shouldnt be dying and losing limbs for no reason.Get out now. Rudy will continue the war in Iraq and move on to Iran and the rest of the Middle East. Let these people govern themselves. Rudy will bring us World War III and our children will go off to war and die or be severely crippled.Rudy was a draft dodger, but now his campaign is war,war ,war. Rudy is not to be trusted and is dangerous man.
  • Seamus Ponders
    Someone needs to manage his waste, Fulton fish smell -remember he found and created the commish of shame,commish becomes minister in Irag -police still useless there, thereafter tries to pump and dump the $165000 lets make a secret deal - apartment renovation - commish of lies and deception. Maybe Rudeness took down mob but gave the city he controlled the control of what mob had using cronies,some indicted -who benefitted. Is this a whence he comes-daddy broke knees with bat for mobsters. Read Wayne Barrett's investigative bio of a rude one published in year 2000- no surprise commish of shame almost made into the leadership of homeland security as attempted vanguard of rudeness -you know you gotta earn and earn they did and do. Hope somebody remembers Larry Ray, who should get the Congressional Metal of Honor for exposing the commish of shame and his playmates. It is very interesting to think that the commish of shame had last word on all the careers of all the cops and correction officers accused of wrong doing in NYC while he himself scored $165000 on the job in renovations and thinks someone should see him as hero, icebergs run deep and in the dark -think about. The shame belongs to a very large ego and is extremely rude and hopefully will never be able to get to be boss of anything. Rude cronynism could become a national situation. Egotism is a character flaw. Rudeness is arrogance. We need a wise leader. Commissioner Bratton was the man for the job, but dismissed and eventually the ever loyal comish of shame was in the game. If the shoe fits it was would be rude not to wear it, although it really does not look good. It was them and if we are not careful it willbe him -very dim indeed!
  • the film ias out showing police and firemen telling people to leave as wtc 7 is comming down they are going to blow it up. clear out. if they knew it was controlled . if it was controlled it was meant to blow up (guess 93 didnt make it) wtc command center let him watch this happen and they can no longer deny what silverstien said and what really happened.

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  • Dennis Bernal
    Please, my fellow Americans read Rudy's 12 commitments, he has solutions that can appeal even to the left. He is honest, practical, and a patriot, which is more than I can say for Mr. Hussein, Mr. I am for the poor but not even my poor neighbors like me, and for Mrs. Hugo Chavez with a pant suit. Sorry for the descriptions, I am really a nice person but when it comes to future safety of America, well I just despise anti-Americanism. Thank you for your time and vote Rudy.
  • Dennis Bernal
    Rudy should feel so special in having a whole website dedicated to smearing him, just because he is capturing the hearts of pro-Americans. As for Anti-American "Americans," may God Bless, and my prayers are with you. Thank you for your time and feel free to post your "own" opinion.
  • Dennis Bernal
    Thanks people for showing so much interest in what I have said. Ph.D? Well, good job for you in agreeing with them, so what's your opinion? I guess brainwashed far-leftist don't have their own opinion. Just to switch topics, General Betray us? Wow, you far left LOONIES have really stooped to a new low! At least Rudy is patriotic enough to try to defend General Patraeus with his own full page ad. The only difference is he wont be lucky enough to get the "Loony" discount as Moveon.org did. (A $165,000 Ad for only $65,000, like George Soros couldn't afford the legit price) Sorry, I have been absent for a while, but here I am, come on people give me your best shot, for I too am patriotic and will defend my General and Commander in Chief and not indirectly help the terrorist' cause by smearing Patriots and down playing the WAR ON TERROR!
  • Mary T
    Chief Riches made the union distribute the funds collected by UFA. 1 million in fund prior to 9/11 then 85 million in fund. UFA wanted to hold onto money and give each child $40,000 on their 24th birthday.The widows wouldn't see the money to fund the children's schooling and the fund would grow immensely.The cost per year was less than the interest gained. The Attorney General said this will be no Red Cross. Chief Riches helped all the families of 9/11 and all previous Line of Duty Death families and Administrative deaths(Approximately 1,000 families) have the money distributed to families per child ratio so that widows could pay for their children's needs,tuitions etc and not let union hold onto the money for in some cases more than 20 years.Thanks for Chief Riches and his standing up to unions and their greed.
  • Benihana
    911veritas is sooooooo right! Please read Jeff Rense, Wayne Madsen, Christopher Bollyn, and Follow the Money Trail: Qui Bono. Who benefits? The house (of Rothschild) always wins.... It's time for America to face the facts, we are just slaves to the European Banking Cartel. Always have been and sadly enough, probably always will be. War is evil. Rudy is just more of the same.
  • Onelia
    I forgot to add that smiling smurky smile that he always does is pure foany and I did not like when he laughed at Ron Paul at the Gop Republican debate the other day... That was another childesen prank like everything else he does...
  • Onelia
    I am sorry to say I definitely agree with you all and the family of the firefighters who died and also the injured personel and him being a coward and not staying to help... I would not vote for someone like him cause of his prioties of being with the rich and famous...scapegoats who use politics in their favor... He should have stayed with his people not dodge out like a chicken with his nuts cut off and having a party for helping him out ....a month after...
  • Andrew Ansbro
    Why has no one ever asked, "If your Fire and Police Commissioners were so qualified, why the hell were they running away from the scene with you, and not leading the troops?"

    Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik was Rudy's Man that day,
    a man that never graduated high school,
    a man that never passed a promotional exam in the NYPD,
    a man that slept with his mistress in a room overlooking Ground Zero, while the room was ment for RnR for rescue workers,
    a man that had his apartment renovated by a mob outfit for free,
    a man that couldn't find an illegal alien in his own house,
    a man that RUDY recommended for head of Homeland Security.

    Fire Commissioner, Thomas Von Essen was Rudy's other guy on 9/11,
    a guy that never passed a promotional exam in the City of New York, his #1 qualification was sucking up to Rudy.
    On 9/11, all the video from The Trade Center before the collapse shows him trying to look over the shoulders of the actual Chiefs in Charge, they work around him, and pay him no mind. He had nothing to offer, so he left to hide with Rudy.
    As Commissioner he ordered saftey ropes to be recalled because the department has to spend $200,000 a year repairing the pants due to chaffing, (that's $20 a head). In 2005 men jumped to their deaths because they had no saftey ropes.

    If Rudy's FDNY Commissioner had the gaul to show his face in a firehouse, he would get his ass kicked, the man was so dispised, that his son had to resign. He son was no winner either, he hid in daddy's pocket for 2 weeks after 9/11, and upon returning to his firehouse the men told him to "get back in daddy's pocket, you don't work here anymore!!!"

    Rudy will have this man be the head of FEMA if you let him, and you know what could go wrong there!!!
  • L.S.
    All he did was to show up and run his mouth; he seems to be good at that. He is a very good con -artist. Thought that he's considered a candidate for the presidency shows what a horrible state this country's in. On 9-11 he didn't do anything special other than grab an opportunity to talk.
  • frank szachta
    Sirs: The best answer for the list of Rudy Juliani is: All The Above. The movie "Sicko" saya a lot of Juliani's failures. The air was toxic, and everyone denies it. So Sad, But from this administration, and the lies they tell over and over are horrible. People now seem to believe these lies, as Juliani's poll numbers show. The people think he did a great job, just like the FEMA debacle in Gulf Coast shows. The slowness of Govt help to people that need it, is despicable. Period.

    Fly Safe

    Frank Szachta
  • frank szachta
    Sirs: The best answer for the list of Rudy Juliani is: All The Above. The movie "Sicko" saya a lot of Juliani's failures. The air was toxic, and everyone denies it. So Sad, But from this administration, and the lies they tell over and over are horrible. People now seem to believe these lies, as Juliani's poll numbers show. The people think he did a great job, just like the FEMA debacle in Gulf Coast shows. The slowness of Govt help to people that need it, is despicable. Period.

    Fly Safe

    Frank Szachta
  • frank szachta
    Sirs: The best answer for the list of Rudy Juliani is: All The Above. The movie "Sicko" saya a lot of Juliani's failures. The air was toxic, and everyone denies it. So Sad, But from this administration, and the lies they tell over and over are horrible. People now seem to believe these lies, as Juliani's poll numbers show. The people think he did a great job, just like the FEMA debacle in Gulf Coast shows. The slowness of Govt help to people that need it, is despicable. Period.

    Fly Safe

    Frank Szachta
  • frank szachta
    Sirs: The best answer for the list of Rudy Juliani is: All The Above. The movie "Sicko" saya a lot of Juliani's failures. The air was toxic, and everyone denies it. So Sad, But from this administration, and the lies they tell over and over are horrible. People now seem to believe these lies, as Juliani's poll numbers show. The people think he did a great job, just like the FEMA debacle in Gulf Coast shows. The slowness of Govt help to people that need it, is despicable. Period.

    Fly Safe

    Frank Szachta
  • Rod B.
    Thank you for providing information we, as a country, need to know about Rudy Giuliani prior to the 2008 Presidential Election. This website has definitely raised my awareness and may force me to reevaluate my opinion of the man after more research.
  • R. Graves
    Hey Anonymous, you aren't man enough to bring Chief Riches shoes to the stand for a shine. You are a keyboard coward, pathetic and misinformed. Why don't you take your anonymous ass to the firehouse in Brooklyn and ask him yourself? You're a piece of shit.

    " Hey Chief Riches: weren't you the guy that stripped the UFA widow and Children's fund of it's traditional role after 9/11?"

    WIDOWS= wives left behind
    Children = Kids left behind

    MOMMY and Daddy fund?? Little Brother fund? I never heard of those until you went after the WAC fund. AM I mistaken?"
    by Anonymous
    1 day ago
  • Anonymous
    Surprised you didn't ask "When did he stop beating his wife." This is poorly conceived Democratic attack on Guiliano.
    Second guessing is easy after the fact. Where were you before 9/11?
    Rick Outcault
  • Alexandra Shea
    He did not fail us on 9/11. He was probably the best thing to happen to NYC at that terrible time. did you see how NYC responded to the tragedy...how it still does? YOu people must be running for someone elses office ...get off the air !and my internet server.
  • Barbara
    Rudy is such a fraud! Why is anyone supporting this clown?
  • Barbara Bush
    Fellow NEO-CONS:

    Rudy is a mole for the GAYS, the CIA, the FBI and the MAFIA! Send this GUNIEA back to SICILY.
  • Bocephus P. Snerdley III
    To Whom It May Concern:

    This GODDAM GREASEBAG is a stinking closet liberal New Yawk ass-a-hole.

    Send RUDY bacck to ITALY, fucking Goddam Greaser, fucking Guniea Wop!
  • J.C
    Dennis is a wacko. (his comments listed below)
  • Michael Valinsky
    Let's break the Myth of the Hero of 9/11. He is not America's Mayor. These truths need to be told, time and time again...
  • Dave
    Rudy's poll numbers are tanking in part because people are finally getting a dose of reality about what Guiliani really is.

    Rudy made more money from, and told more lies about, 9/11 than any other single human being.

    Mr Bernal, since you seem unable to refute the content of this video with documented facts, I guess you're conceding that what's reported here is true.

    Perhaps it's time for more name calling?
  • Very true David Arnold...

    You can find the audio (15mins) that Salem recorded covertly when meeting with his FBI handler at :

    http://nwo.media.xs2.net/tape/SalemWBAI.mp3

    Additional Info at :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Salem

    Everyone needs to become familiar with the term "False Flag Operation".

    A perfect example of a false flag plan is "Operation Northwoods" an event proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Stopped by JFK in 1962) as a pretext to start a war with Cuba.

    Many thanks and best wishes
  • David Arnold
    Why say Islamic fundamentalists attacked the Trade Center when Dan Rather reported Oct 28, 1993 that the FBI provided the explosives.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srMIbEee1_A&watc...

    THE NEW YORK TIMES

    * * * * *

    Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1

    "Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart
    Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"

    By Ralph Blumenthal

    Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

    The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.
  • Rick Van Alfen
    Rudy Giuliani is nothing but an opportunist. He engages in the Orwell "Doublespeak" and should be exposed for the fraud that he is.
  • Benihana
    Poor little Dennis Bernal, what grade did you finish? I guess you beLIEve everything the government and the corporate media feeds you. How naive you must be to believe that certified structural steel collapses simultaneously due to fire. I'm sure you're more qualified to discuss this than say Steven Jones or Judy Wood whom just happen to be Ph.D's in engineering. At least Bill O'Reilly is proud of you for having such blind faith. Good luck and keep praying for some sort of a miracle.
  • Nick
    Everyone please ignore Dennis Bernal, he's one of those soulless wraiths bred by the neocons for the singular purpose of spreading misinformation on the efforts to stop the madness that is the conservative agenda.

    Far left loony? Wow, way to generalize, Dennis.
  • Dennis Bernal
    The command center, is that your best shot, then you guys have lots to learn in the art of competition. I personally am a true competitor and so is Rudy, so if you people think bashing him on things that Jim Hauer recommended, you are on your way to the losing side. Please step up your game because your playing with the big boys when it comes to bashing someone. Please state the facts and not the "crap" that is fed to you by "far left loony" websites like moveon.org and the DailyKos, because we get offended when you guys think we actually believe your trash.
  • Dennis Bernal
    Huh, I had the most funniest experience right now. I just went to the facts section and the first reference that came up was the New York Times. LOL, so funny, wow, if there wasn't any newspaper that more indirectly pushes the terrorist agenda, it is them. They are so far left, it's disgusting and a disgrace. Thank you for your time.
  • Dennis Bernal
    Wow, if this website put as much energy into the facts as it did distorting the truth about Rudy, your website could be credible. Oh well, leave it up to the far left loonies to dictate what lies should be put out. I don't know your websites' history, but to dedicate an entire site in hopes to discredit the top Republican Candidate is wasteful. You guys need to snap back to reality and stop being brainwashed by the far lefts' agenda to down play terrorism. Rudy knows security, he will protect us, not the "Dems" or should I say the "Dumbs." The Real Rudy will continue this prevention of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, but the "Democraps" will indirectly kill American Citizens. How? By pulling our key anti-terror programs and going soft on terrorism. Rudy is our man, so save time, energy and money and support him. Thank you for your time.
  • Dennis Bernal
    This website is the most ridiculous, twisted, and uninformed site I have seen so far. You people spin the truth so much, by cutting clips here and there, that this website should be called the "spin zone." Get real, Rudy is what national security is all about and is the most qualified candidate for President. Please stop now, no intelligent person buys your propaganda, and save your energy for the truth. Thank you for your time, but please use your time wisely and stop the lies.
  • John N. Georgiades
    Rudy Gulianni has always been a fraud. Can you imagine him being the president of the United States. A Fate worse than death. Isn't enough having this impaustor George there at the white house for 8 years. We must be gluttons for punishment. Enough is enough.
  • Lynnc
    Rudy failed us on 9/11...hardly! Clinton failed us long before in not apprehending Bin Laden and putting an end to his organizaiton.
  • Sean Hickey
    Rudy failed us because He knew instantly that the media attention generated by the attack was going to be his legacy.What got me personally being there on 9/11 was watching him covered in ASH acting like it was PIXIE DUST with MAGICAL POWERS,He new at that moment that the attack would propell him to Higher Office.
  • Lisa Hammermeister
    Did nothing after first attack. He is no hero, he didn't even anticipate a second attack and did nothing. He is a failure!
  • Lisa Hammermeister
    Did nothing after first attack. He is no hero, he didn't even anticipate a second attack and did nothing. He is a failure!
  • Gene
    And you should also see Bunny's picture. VA VA VOOM. She's VERY HOT. SHE'S ALSO LIKELY TO BE A... GUY!
  • Gene
    To: Cynthia Eggert

    I'm sorry that some moron has ruined the site for you, Don't give up. The true people need you and your ideas. Stick with it. It will get better. And just ignore the retards. (I know. I'm being, myself "politically insensitive" here). But who cares? Stay with us.
  • Cynthia Eggert
    Whatever ass wipe posted that lesbian comment in my name: fuck you up your fucking asshole! How dare you sign something libelous in my name! What kind of crappy security does this blog have? I'm withdrawing my support of this site.
  • Gene
    There is a disinformation site called 9/11- CNN Fake News Footage-Shock and Awe. Most of which is shown on YouTube (Rupe's new baby), YouTube deliberately censors content (even G rated )if it attacks the Republican puppets they like for instance Rudy Hitler (I meant Giuliani). yeah sure. LIKE HELL.
  • LJ Dixon
    Giuliani is a typical politician who worries more about his political career than peoples lives. He may talk the talk, but he sure can't walk the walk!
  • Gene
    A handful of people among the families and friends of victims turned their backs to the stage as Rudy Giuliani read a brief passage at the sixth anniversary commemoration of 9/11 Tuesday.

    But there was also light scattered applause as he left the stage, illustrating how the former mayor remains a polarizing figure in New York City.

    Whether that mixed response will follow him nationally as voters outside of New York get to know him better remains a test for his campaign for president.

    A snippet from a story published in NY Newsday today: September 11, 2007.

    (FOOD FOR THOUGHT)
  • Benihana
    Bring Rudolph and his cronies to justice for the mass murder and cover-up of those innocent people killed six years ago today.
  • William McLoughlin
    Dear Good People:

    The person who should be interviewed is the Port Authority Officer who saved a frantic and panicked Guiliani and his henchman Kerik trapped below the WTC site. He will tell you an interesting story.

    A second major question is in your video you show a clean "press ready" Rudy running from the site, when all others in the area were covered with soot. Rudy went some place to shower and get himself ready for the press.

    WJM
  • Cynthia Eggert
    I write this as I watch the original NBC coverage of 9/11, with tears streaming down my face. I lived in Rockland County, NY at that time and first learned of the attacks between art history classes at Dominican College in Orangeburg, NY. My students brought the horrific tale with them to my second class. Their loved ones were trapped in the buildings. At that time, speculation ran to the fact that one of the planes was a Boston-NY flight. I had a dear friend who was supposed to be returning to NYC from Marblehead, MA, and all I could think was, don't let him be on that plane. The horror was overwhelming. After more than an hour of trying to comfort students and colleagues, while accepting their comfort in return, I drove home in a daze. My horror increased as I watched the day's events unfold. The phones scarcely worked, so I could get no word of my friend's fate, just as I could not get hold of my partner, who taught at a high school in Bergen County, NJ. I couldn't reach my family in PA. As the day wore on, I felt anger towards the terrorists, but my greatest anger was directed at our government, who clearly let us down on so many levels. The biggest local offender was Rudy Giuliani. I already detested Giuliani for his crony system, his racism, his sneering dismissal of civil rights and decency. His coopting of 9/11 reveals a man who is pure evil. My brother is a volunteer first responder (fire/EMS) in PA; his company was on call to travel to NY to provide assistance. In light of the dangerous dust swirling through lower Manhattan in those days, I am mightily relieved he did not. Other first responders paid and continue to pay the ultimate price for Giuliani's arrogance and failure to protect them, as well as the people who live and work in NYC. When I hear this man lie through his teeth to take credit for courageous leadership in the face of terrorism, I could just puke. It was his mismanagement and malfeasance that cost many of those thousands of people their lives. Fortunately, my friend was not on the planes, but tragically, the friend he had been visiting was on the second plane. One of my colleagues was married to an NYC firefighter. Over the following months, she attended funeral after funeral for her husband's lost comrades. Many NY firefighters and cops live in Rockland County, so a pall was cast over our lives that felt much more heartrending than that twisted debris field at Ground Zero. Through all this tragedy emerged that sneering face of Giuliani, still sneering when he eventually ordered all that evidence stored at Fresh Kills to be destroyed. What the hell was this bastard trying to hide? My loathing of Rudy knows no bounds. The thought of this lying, fascistic cretin running this country even farther into the ground than Bush & Co. have done makes me ill. We must all work together to spread the word about the myth of 9/11's most offensive fraud.
  • virginia graf
    To place the command center in the towers when he was advised not to do that was just paying back benefactors, not making sound judgement. To have faulty equipment among the firefighters was disgraceful. I personally never saw him as America's mayor. The towers had been an earlier target and anyone in a responsible position would recognize that was a poor choice for a command center.
  • tptm
    Who cares if the Emergency Center was located ,too bad it wasn't in Cantor Fitzgeralds office where the plane hit. They screwed the firefighters and police dept with faulty communication radios ,this was not the first attack on the WTC, and they failed. Do Not vote for Guiliani ,Please ,Thank You
  • Janet Sherman
    As a new Yorker (a Brooklynite really) who was transplanted to the west coast, I have never lost my roots or my love of my home. Rudy has been a disaster almost from the beginning but his actions on 9/11 and the days and months after have been reprehensible. He was not a good mayor.
  • Sy Green
    Hi i am a retired teacher/journalist who lived through Guiliani's paranoid, meglamanic mismanagement of New York (and five blocks from ground zero) and saw up-close and personal how he mismanaged the 9/11 disaster and how he devastated the lower manhattan economy,unnecessarily for years..how he swung from let's get back to normal right away and after visiting Pres. Bush in Washington turned New York City(especially below Canal Street) into Beirut ,police (and national guard)searching my car six times and a police escort to my gararge ..and became Sir Guiliani (without firing a shot..)..
  • marc simon
    everyone should see this video, also if you could get the one where he's dressed in drag, that would be awsome, you could send that one to the good ole boys down south. It's important that we on a grass roots level rise up to beat the back the lies that the republicans and the neocons have shoved down our throats. It's time to take back America. Truth, justice, and the American way.
  • Jeff
    Rudy took credit for the success of CompStat. He literally only went to one meeting. He wasted money hiring police officers that only had short-term success, instead of furthering a proven program that worked.
  • Nina Gegenheimer
    Why has it taken so long to get much of this information out to people? This is now the eve of the 6th anniversary of 9/ll and some of this is what the public should have been made aware of long ago.
  • You should be asking instead, who was Rudy before 9/11?

    I want to ask Rudy Giuliani:

    Will eminent domain be part of your your policy, as it was in NYC, when you bulldozed roller coasters on Coney Island & sent SWAT teams into community gardens to seize private property from citizens?

    Who broke more laws during your tenure in office, the criminals in jail, or you, making hundreds of false arrests a week?

    Why did you continue to make 700 illegal arrests after the Supreme Court voted for the street artists you were arresting falsely, without ever charging them?

    Why did you arrest 11 firefighters & drag them away from body recovery in Ground Zero just days after 9/11? How long were those firefighters in prison? What were they charged with?

    Why did you escort Mussolini’s grand daughter around NYC like she was a celebrity instead of the socialist/fascist she is?

    Explain how you used the Manhattan Institute’s ‘Fixing Broken Windows’ as a guide for cleaning up NYC, especially since the book is based on eugenics & the elimination of the impoverished & minorities. Are you an eugenist?

    Explain why you stored 6000 gallons of diesel fuel in WTC7 despite the NYFD & The EPA’s recommendations, the NYFD calling it a ‘recipe for disaster’. Did that diesel fuel help cause the collapse of that building?

    Explain why you sold hundreds of tons of steel from the WTC to recyclers before a single government agency had any tie to investigate the site of one of the largest ass murders on American soil.

    Is the Constitution just 200 year old toilet paper to you?
  • Not forgetting that Rudy (with his legal background should have known better, especially regarding the disposal of evidence)...

    Editor (Bill Manning) of Fire Engineering Magazine said,

    "Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure."

    and

    "To treat the September 11 incident any differently would be the height of stupidity and ignorance. The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately."

    F.E. Jan 2002 Edition Link :

    http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/article...

    ---

    Everyone keeps asking WHY WTC7, here's one BIG reason :

    All the Securities and Exchange Commission's lost evidence, resulting in the SEC spokesperson in the NY Post on 12-Sep-2001 stating...

    "it's devastating, they'll have to scrap many cases, and start from scratch on others"

    and just out today... See :

    America's Leading Collapse Expert (Deputy Chief Raymond M. Downey) - "South Tower Was Brought Down With Explosives"

    http://www.911blogger.com/node/11241

    and

    Spitzer Filed Legal Brief, Helped Silverstein Win $4.5 Billion WTC Insurance Windfall

    http://www.911blogger.com/node/11254
  • Rich L
    How come you did'nt have an all of the above answer for his biggest failures. I experienced the radio problem first hand.I'm still here but many of my friends paid the ultimate price for this or HIS collection of errors.
  • Gene
    This has nothing per se to do do thth Rudy (or does it? ? ?), Anyway this is a response I sent to one of the 9/11 conspiracy websites. (Mind you I also believe it all was a conspiracy). But I don't believe that ALL of the press (such as CNN were totally in the NWO) pocket. If you don't know what the NWO is read some of the earlier threads. I don't get into Rudy till the end but by then; who cares?

    I'm shocked that you would post a "fake" attack on CNN, on your website. One of your cronies in fact published a 4 frame footage, showing 4 different angles of the "second plane hitting the South Tower", then claiming that the two (top frame and bottom frames as shown on the left were allegedly CNN fake footage). Yet the same film also purports to claim that the "right" top and bottom frames (ironically also obtained from CNN), purports to show the "true" footage. I have several problems with this argument. First. The bottom right hand footage which you (and your cronies) claim is authentic clearly shows an object (speeding towards the South Tower), which does coincidentally appears to me to be some sort of aircraft. Second. Using stop-motion photography apparently appears to hit the South Tower at the PRECISE moment that the other three frames explode into a fireball. I don't believe this is nor can it be animation as I will dispel. Other debunkers proved their points by pointing out a rather "mysterious" object located on the undercarriage of the alleged United Airlines Flight # 175. This is actually easily explained. THIS WAS A REAL PLANE. AND NO. IT WAS NOT UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT # 175. THIS WAS NOT EVEN A BOEING AIRCRAFT. BUT AN AIRCRAFT IT CERTAINLY WAS. This is my theory. The military, in particularly the Air Force uses a reconverted C-130 aircraft as a re-fueling jet (in the instances their fighter jets need to refuel in mid air). These aircraft have two engines on the left wing. They also have one engine on the right wing, and one engine on the undercarriage, which serves a threefold function. (These are even now many dozen of these aircraft still actively used in military exercises in the Persian Gulf). The "undercarriage" engine is broken down into three compartments. One to serve as a funnel for fuel transfer. The second to serve as a fourth engine (though most jet aircraft can fully function on three engines. The third, and perhaps least important (though more important a function if a re-fueling aircraft is undergoing a midair attack), serves as a reserve missile "silo/launcher". In some of the "original" 9/11 footage, you can plainly see the small missile being expelled from this "unknown" engine and striking the 78th floor of Tower 2 scant seconds before the actual aircraft hits the tower. Re-review all of the footage. I am ex-military and I know this to be true. I know this perhaps sounds somewhat bizarre. But remember who is the Vice-President and then Secretary of Defense in power at that time. Only they could possibly have the political and military contacts to pull off such an attack with such military precision. (Do you really think that some slug hiding in a cave with virtually no other resources other than "plastic knives or box cutters" could pull this off)? And how would Al-Qaeda acquire these sophisticated military aircraft unless: 1). The US military provided these to them to begin with. Or. 2). The US military (under the command of the "powers that be" pulled this off them selves, and then conveniently blamed Al-Qaeda). Also think about this. How was it possible that even one (or )more alleged Islamic terrorist(s) were able to hijack even one US domestic flight over American airspace (never mind four) when the last known successful US hijacking was that of DB Cooper in 1981. The reason is simple: US Air Marshalls. That’s why. US Air Marshalls are assigned on ALL domestic US flights. (They are there. Most people don't notice them). Yet on 9/11 we hear of not one assigned to any of the four allegedly hijacked planes. Surely a US Air Marshall with a .45 would surely be able to take out all of the "plastic knife/box cutting" terrorists without batting an eye. So my question is: Where were the Air Marshalls? Why did no one have the foresight to even ask this question? (no wonder there was no answer. The question was never asked). Lastly the attack on CNN doesn't explain the hundreds of eyewitnesses who were here in NYC on 9/11, and clearly saw a second plane hit the South Tower. I was on the rooftop of my home at 100 Beekman Street (I was off work that day, and only worked 4 blocks away if I had worked). We heard the first explosion and I and my girlfriend (now wife) ran two stories to the roof, just in time to see another object hurdling towards and striking the South Tower. How do you explain that? It wasn't an animated cartoon. It wasn't Tweety trying to kill Sylvester in a Kamikaze suicide attack ala United Flight #93. It was real. For me as for the many others who filmed the plane footage. Do you blindly believe that CNN had the only footage? Or that the FBI retrieved it all? Why don't you attack Faux Noise? Or are you a stooge for King George IV.? Or Adolf Hitleriani?
  • Yuki Yamagura
    Rudy did everything he possibily could have, unlike you. You are a pig.
  • Carol Newton
    I can't vote because my top complaint is that he promoted himself as the great savior of the day - constantly and to the detriment of his official role.
  • H Shuford
    As usual with Republican politicians they attempt to re-write history to absolve them of any responsiblity for anything that goes wrong. This was incompetence at its worst.
  • Guliani was probably complicit in the controled demolition of the WTC buildings - part of the Silverstein Deal cut to rid the Port Authority of the asbestos infested white elephants that would have cost NYC billions to replace - a deal, slickly rolled into the PNAC's call for and executon of a new Perl Harbor - and the clean-up was flat out illegal - Guliani is a criminal!
  • David Lord
    Ruy Giuliani is a big, crooked liar.
  • Susan Buckley
    C-SPAN.org aired an event on 9-9-07 that featured Rudy and the mayor of Ohlahoma City at the OkCity Memorial where both men spoke in detail of their respective responces to the terrorist catastrophies. It was originally filmed in April. It is another piece of masterful political Rudy bullsh*t you may want to add to your research. Rudy lied from word one, and continued throughout with self-serving explanations and humble retrospection. I apologize I don't know how to do the linkety-blink thing, but for what it's worth priceless to add to the pile of worm sh*t. Can be found at C-Span.org
  • Don Bailey
    More liberal B.S.
  • Susan Pliler
    Rudy GiuLiani is a liar and a thief. He is morally bankrupt and a lapdog to this crooked anministration....and now he is a murderer.
  • Gene
    To all of the retarded idiots who are looking for Ron Paul to save your sorry fucking, wasted asses. He's no savior. He part of the Republican cabal. Thus he's part of the problem, not the solution. If he genuinely cared a fucking shit about you or yours, he would leave the Republicnazi party and run as an independent. But he won't. Because he's a lapdog also. You morons. Why is the electorate (especially those who call themselves "Republicans" . . . those who only watch Faux Noise, no doubt. . . have a combined IQ of 65%?
  • Gene
    To all of the retarded idiots who are looking for Ron Paul to save your sorry fucking, wasted asses. He's no savior. He part of the Republican cabal. Thus he's part of the problem, not the solution. If he genuinely cared a fucking shit about you or yours, he would leace the Republicnazi party and run as an independent. But he won't. Beacuse he's a lapdog also. You morons. Why is the electorate (especially those who call themselves "Republicans" . . . those who only watch Faux Noise, no doubt. . . have a combined IQ of 65%?
  • jane hallaren
    Where's the news? As an ex-New Yorker, I can tell you that he single handedly destroyed the middle class in Manhattan as well as the 3 thousand people killed in the attacks. He's a crook who surrounds himself with a bunch of crooked henchmen. He has no morality whatsoever!!!
  • Benihana
    Angry people in denial like Allan Ryan need to wake up and smell the vast right wing conspiracy. Obviously the blue pill is more pleasing, sort of like the late night drive thru at McD's: That's why Caesar said to give the people bread and circus, fat and happy is all our dumbed-down society understands.
  • Gene
    I wouldn't have given a shitty rat's ass what the lobby command centers said about the North Tower being secure and "everybody go back to your desk's" order that was given on that murderous morning. If I was in one of any of the buildings I would have gotten THE FUCK OUT. FUCK MY JOB. I CAN ALWAYS GET ANOTHER. I, HOWEVER CANNOT GET ANOTHER LIFE (UNLESS I'M DRACULA). FUCK 'EM ALL. TRUST NO ONE.
  • Jack
    He is a very scary authoritarian,statist whom is taking political advantage of a terrible situation. Scumbag!
  • Joe Kraher
    The American Prospect reported all of this this the minute Guiliani threw his hat in the ring for Prez.!!!!
  • Don
    If thios is what the Republicans call leadershio they aren't worthy of election to dog catcher. They do nothing because of ethical concern or altruism--its all Quid Pro Quo for their own good.
  • robert watkins
    rudy is lucky that he wasn't killed by his own stupidity. he was warned several times by people more knowledgeable about the placement of the emergency center. on top of that he did nothing about replacing the walkie talkies that failed in the attack of 1993, and that was at the beginning of his first term as mayor. as a new yorker i was truly disappointed in him as mayor. he created problems where there were'nt any and compounded problems that were easily fixable.
  • Sheila Stowell
    Let the real facts be revealed
  • maryann maslanka
    Police & firemen should have been better "connected" to each other...otherwise he did an OUTSTANDING job and is to be commended!
  • tyrone carelock
    i still do not understand why the people did not leave the other trade center when the first plane hit from what i heard from some surviors that they watch the plane hit and watch instead of getting out of the building
  • David Yennior
    Rudy Guiliani is a disgusting person which was reflected by some of the police tactics against minorities. Obviously his emergency planning was worse than Bush's plan for a post-War Iraq. But, his biggest fault was how he tried to use 9-11 to further his political future. He has received millions of dollars for speaking engagements. Even his behaviour right after 9-11 was suspect, asking the Mayoral candidates to postpone the election, as if only he could manage NYC. But what disgusted me was how he shamelessly got in front of every TV camera and invaded the funerals of every victim.
  • ALLEN RYAN
    MY SIDE OF IT IS YOU PEOPLE HAVE STACKED THE DECK AGAINST RUDY. SAME OLD CRAP FROM YOU LEFTIES. I SEE NOTHING ABOUT THE GOOD THINGS HE DID. ALOT OF PEOPLE CALL HIM AMERICAS MAYOR. DOESN'T OUR OPINION COUNT. NEXT YOU WILL SAY HE AND BUSH OWN A BOMB FACORY AND THEY MADE BOBS TO BLOW THE TOWERS. SCREW YOU!
  • glenn englander
    worse than being a flip flopper, he is a liar; his book does not carry the line "thank g-d George Bush is our president" which he claimed while most of the country did not realize how bad George Bush was; some rumor he used the 23th floor for trysts with Judith Nathanson
  • marie f, hoke-singer
    Rudy is just a republican he can do no better. I heard him make a crack about Bill & Hillary.What in gods name would a man with no ability to have sexual intercourse need with a wife and mistress? That is just so weird.He had his mistriss in the mayors mansion. He has nerve alright, no brains but nerve. I'm a former resident of the state of N Y. When the gop started taking over in the '70's we were so glad we had left in the mid '50's. His campaign slogan should be lie when you want to and no balls no glory,the story of the impetent mayor. It'people like the Bush clan,our new gay govener in florida, the ever increasing exposing of the "christian conservative'gop members of your government for their sexual escapades.I guess we'll soon have to change the name of Washington D.C. to Sodom.
    I'm proud of my family. When they all got to America they became citizens and Democrats.
  • Ivy and Tom
    Rudy's failure to the fire fighters at 911.
  • Gretchen
    Why did Rudy allow the land clearing equipment in while families were still hoping to receive the remains of their relatives who were caught in the towers? What was the rush? Seems cold-hearted and insensitive. His reputation as a strong protector against terrorism is bogus.
  • G.Brown
    Where to begin? I think for 9/11, the main failure is the lack of radio equipment equality across uniformed services. If they had better communications, not so many of them might have perished. In other areas, his 'crusade' against the 'squeegee men', his closing of Fresh Kills without a plan to find a mutually beneficial solution
    to the increased trash; polarization of the city leading to the Doresmond/Louima/Diallo incidents; the lack of respect for Gracie Mansion [after all, isn't Bill Clinton held responsible for disrespecting the Oval Office by his behavior?]; the questionable ethics of staff; [more being implicated every day]
  • Tony
    Google: John Schroeder of the FDNY in his interview by the
    filmakers who made "LooseChange". Ask why Rudy stopped uncovering bodies on 10/31/01 when they uncovered the real subject of the excavation, THE Missing GOLD. From then on the bodies that remained in the debris at Ground ZERO went directly to the dumpsites across the river, enmass.
    Ask him why he destroyed evidence and obstructed justice when the 30 foot* long chevron cut "47 steel core columns" were trucked out uninspected, * DEMOLITION STYLE perfect cuts. In all likely-hood, the 23rd floor of bldg #7 was the base of operations to set the programmed charges off in perfect ( almost) sequence.
  • Dixie
    God help us if he is elected our president!
  • michael gay
    He succeeded in following the game plan of the Bush/Cheney
    His mistake is his tv appearances. When a liar is allowed to speak repeatedly his true colors are hard to hide.
  • emma
    i honestly have always thought the entire 911 was an inside job by our government. i'm not a paranoid gun wielding person either. i'm a unc graduate and liberal and just think the towers were detonated, americans were murdered by our government, all the planes were controlled by a computer like missiles, a missile rather than a plane hit the pentagon, and bush and his family (marvin, senior) have blood on their hands. that building 7 owner got 7 billion dollars when his building was detonated. he actually sued for double the insurance (3.5 billion) because he claimed it was 2 buildings. that's how "sensitive" he was after all those lives lost. what a pr*ck. i think bush and the bin ladens made a ton of money off of the 911 attacks and this had been planned to give us a reason to attack afghanistan and iraq for their oil, plain and simple. i think this administration is completely evil and crazy.
  • tim rockwell
    He is an outed fraud and notorious liar. Fundamentally flawed in character, judgement, and integrity. Suitable for election under present conditions.
  • Stu Winnie
    Rudy cares more about promoting Rudy's career, crony's and Republican political party than America. The coward is willing to lie, cheat, probably steal, and who knows what(?) to advance his career. He even seemed to use the 9-11 disaster to his favor with empty political speeches about how we, who obviously already survived the Trade Center bombing because we weren't there, will survive this disaster – a phony show of strength and unity in efforts of personal and political gain from his incompetence, mistakes, negligence, and self-promotion which led to the deaths of so many that he failed to protect. Favoritism, plain and simple. His decisions are made for his convenience. Giving favors to his financial supporters seems to be his paramount consideration in everything he does.
  • Dore
    Rudy failed us because he was in on it. 911 was an inside job and Rudy was part of the neocon agenda to make sure their false flag terrorism was handled in the matter to make sure the evidence was destroyed as the rubble was quickly wisked away, by the same company that planted the bombs for the controlled demolition.
  • Kelly
    It's time for these types of fakes to be exposed for the inept politicans they truly are. They, and Giuliani are despicable and it's time folks woke the hell up and see these people for the liars and media manipulators like these types of forums provide.
  • Gene
    It should be most telling that a recent CBS/NY Times poll states unequivicably that 87% of New Yorkers polled do NOT Rudy Giuliani to speak at the upcoming 9/11 Memorial Service at Ground Zero. 11% supported his speaking with 2% undecided.
  • Gene
    It should be most telling that a recent CBS/NY Times poll states unequivicably that 87% of New Yorkers polled do NOT Rudy Giuliani to speak at the upcoming 9/11 Memorial Service at Ground Zero. 11% supported his speaking with 25 undecided.
  • robert chapman
    It is very hard not be cynical and bitter toward the country, leaders and people who abandoned us on that terrible September day in 2001.

    At the beginning of the emergency period that arose in the aftermath of the attack, people gave blood, construction workers came to Manhattan and country dedicated itself to bringing the evil doers to justice or bringing justice to the evil doers.

    Then Giuliani and GW Bush realized what great photo ops the rubble and rescue attempts at ground zero offered them.

    Very soon instead of uniting a grieving nation and sympathetic world in a Global War on Terrorism, Bush and Giuliani turned the whole thing into a political treasure hunt aimed at Iraq's oil supplies.

    The fact remains that after being told that there was a terror plot against us, Bush went on vacation instead of shaking the trees and making agencies cough up actionable intelligence.

    The fact remains, that not one American did anything to defend us when the terrorists attacked.

    The fact remains that instead of fighting against terrorists Bush and Giuliani mislead us and took us into an optional war that has seriously degraded our ability to deal with the terrorists.

    Bush and Giuliani are both phonies and their support comes from gullible people who believe everything they see on the TV news.
  • Barbara Sullivan-Parry
    Rudy was and is a self-aggrandizing and slick pol who wants only to advantage himself. His deal with Larry Silverstein continues to this day to enhance his financial status. He is a callous and narrow hack, almost as venal as Bush.
  • rwhepler
    In all of this discussion of Rudy G, we have neglected to mention Rudy's presence at the 7/7 transit bombings in London. He and his security contracting company were running a simulation of terrorist bombing at the very sites where bombs went off. What a coincidence?

    Well, it worked on 9/11. They were running a terrorist attack simulation at NORAD and the DOD.

    When a play works, you keep running it until the opposition catches on. Then as a White House aide said "We create our own reality, and while you are trying to figure out what happened, we will create a new reality".
  • Egilde Seravalli
    He is a dangerous politician who would do anything to reach his own personal goals.He is also incompetent and could not care less about addressing issues important to Americans. Rudy is good only in making his friends & himself wealthy whatever the price others pay. If he win he will be in worse shape than now, if it were possible!
  • Charlene Light
    Rudy is NOT an honest or caring politician. We need to find someone who is or the U.S. is doomed. We have no credibility abroad and at home amongst anyone with half a brain. Please let us NOT attack Iran. We have already ruined Iraq completely and the surrounding countries cannot take in any more refugees, unless of course they are rich and then they can probably come to the U.S., maybe. Rudy doesn't care about the lives of civilians. As a president more people would be killed under his leadership. charlene light
  • mauricio felipe
    Good job
  • Richard Karp
    He failed because he is not,and I emphasize not, a leader. Rudy, as are so many politicians, rather egotistical power hungry people who are interest basically in themselves and their interest in holding on to and expanding their power. My guess this is symptomatic if their basic impotents.
  • Nancy
    I think whoever you are have got some nazi agenda and I think you are scumbags. You are putting your wishes and planting seeds out there and making up whatever you want to do. I am sorry, but I do not believe you or your stupid thoughts and never will!
  • Faye Clarke
    Thinking only of his photo ops when he put the command center in lower Manhattan instead of putting it where everyone with knowledge told him not to. I guess greed won out in the end and now he is using his hero image to become the next president, we already have one of those and don't need another one.
  • Cronyism, demogoguary, reliance on his own beliefs over the reasoned conclusions of the experts, the ‘if you’re not with me you’re against me’ mindset – all the best qualities of the current Administration.
  • Guiliani failed because he is a meglomaniac who always believes he knows the right answer, regardless of the "opinions" of the experts.
  • merrill
    Command center in the wrong place
    NO WORKING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Cronies in high places
    USING THE 9/11 ATROCITY AS A POLITICAL OP!
    Does "Silverstein" mean anything to you?
    The city leased way too much space at the WTC because private business moved out (for good reason).
  • dave
    he failed the people of america but succeeded in fooling them at the same time.. he got rid of the steel before a proper analysis could be done.. as far as i am concerned he was part of the plot.. it was an inside job and he knew that.. he should be in jail..
  • Melanie Bickle
    This country can not afford to elect yet another lying politician. We have already lost too many lives because of their incompetence and deception.
  • David Fuller
    Besides the ideas of pre-knowledge that the towers and 7 were going to come down indicating complicity, the total mishandling of the toxic debris and its health hazards to the residents and workers in the area surrounding the Trade center is probably far bigger than the convenient placement of the command center in Silverstein's building 7 (which he himself states was "pulled" after making a decision with the fire commander).
    The decision to have all the steel immediately sent to China, which eliminated any possible forensic investigation as to the cause of the collapses, is criminal negligence at best.
  • ALEX ROSE
    Dear Robert Greenwald,

    I am a HUGE fan of your films and have received many via the KPFK fund drives. Your documentary on Wal-Mart was so outstanding, I took it home to Green Bay,WI and showed it to all my mother's nurses, who vowed they would never step inside a Wal-Mart again!
    Your films on FOX news, IRAQ, etc. are inspirational and truthful. Your story on Rudy Giuliani is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to what happened on 9/11 - the fact that even mainstream media is SLOWLY starting to pick up on the fact that "something's rotten in Denmark" with the "official" versions of the Towers info - the lies, etc. - will someday bubble to the surface - beyond the Internet and bloggers.

    Thanks for the good work. I am a film producer myself (Norma Rae, etc.) and I deeply appreciate your truth and courage!

    Warmest regards,

    Alexandra Rose
    (323) 654-8662
  • JaniceCoy
    Every bit of dust, metal, dynamite was sent by Rudy to Asia to a third world country, Thailand or Cambodia to hide the evidence in the rubble. Fema or the FBI etc. never got to test it. Rudy was in on 9/11 like the Bushes. Insurance paid and much of the gold bars was removed for the banks to get later on the week before which had many fire drills. The bomb sniffing dogs were removed on Thursday before 9/11 on Monday of 2007. Some Saudis were hired but not 19. Only about 9 were hired. The others have been found alive. Marvin Bush was leader of the team that supervised the Towers at that time. Rudy made sure he was politically in front of the camera all the time he could after running away from the actual attack. The people were told not to come in to work at the towers except restaurant workers and one or two companies on 9/11. Go back and listen to the tapes that were released in the towers. They are saying bombs are going off in the elevator area around the 9th or 10th floor. Never before in history has a plane and jet fuel taken down a tall building like these in 9 seconds. There are black boxes falling off the towers when you zoom in with a camera. Wake up!!! Rudy was told what to do and planted there.
  • I voted for the options suggested as Rudy's greatest 911 error, however, you should have listed "Other" as an option with a space like this to describe it.

    My nomination for the greatest error was tampering and destroying evidence at a crime scene. What happened to the girders of steel that fell? He melted them down and sent them to China. That is a crime and should be prosecuted as such.
  • David Enock
    Rudy Giuliani is a fraud. He takes credit for things he had nothing to do with, i.e., nothing he did compares in any way with the actions of the incredibly brave first responders on 9/11 and he had nothing to do with the reduction in crime in New York City. History has proven over and over again that more police and more punishment have nothing to do with lower crime rate while economics does. During Giuliani's term as mayor the city was at the height of prosperity. Crime was down because people had jobs, food and shelter.
  • Dan Noel
    As shown in "9/11 Mysteries, Part 1," Giuliani's biggest error was to not share with others his foreknowledge that WTC was going to collapse, none of those that are proposed in BNF's poll.
  • Stella
    Rudy failed us because his prior interests were political cronyism. He was advised not to place a command center in the Twin Towers but totally ignored the advise.
  • Rosa Fang
    Rudy is a big lier just as Bush. They must have learned from each other!
  • carol sauer
    Could Rudy be another well trusted member of another coalition of a larger evil?
  • Diane Arnold
    911 was a terrible tragedy! An awful, senseless tragedy but what would be even more distructive would be for anyone to us it for their own capitalization. Especially someone like Rudy who, in fact was more of a deficit to New York through his mismanaged, selfish seeking policies than a producer of good for the people and their public welfare.

    It all comes back to the "image" the repulican spinmasters would like the American Public to believe is that; they have our back, that they're the hero's and the only ones compitent to do the job, that they somehow know what's best for us and care for us as a Nation, as a people. But this is all propaganda, a false image. It is time for us as American's to pull back the curtain of this disception and call it for what it is. Political greed in action. It is time we put people in office that really care about our nation. That promote a strong financial economy and promote the nations welfare over their own self interests.
    "We the People" can make a difference by demanding fair election practices, by support our local and national campaigns. By serving as volunteers in our own communities, canvassing streets, working phone lines, donating to candidates with good purpose. It is up to us as Americans to not be victims of the political process. It takes action. We must do our part!
    May the hope and care of our nation rest in our capable hands. I'm going to do my part, will you?
  • al ridner
    he was in on the bushes false flag 911, as for the firemans radios ,he an the gov didnt want them to work ,because they may have seen some things in the towers ,an said it on the air, 911 was a setup ,an bush an rudy knew it........................................
  • fred
    Rudy and his republican friends all knew that the attack was coming...but saw it as their chance to attack Iraq and to make money thru the military industrial complex. Since 9/11 they have not been worried about catching Bin Laden as his capture would reduce their chances to continue spending the billions of dollars on the "war on terror"
  • Greg George
    Special interests were clearly responsible for the location of an Emergency Command Center for New York at the World Trade Center. Mr. Giuliani received $100,000 in campaign contributions from the building owner.

    You Republicans need to ask yourselves if this man should be our next president.
  • Lisa Plymate
    By failing to insist all rescue workers wear protective masks, and instead pushing them to complete cleanup of the site in his
    short time frame (for the sake of Wall Street), he caused many workers to suffer
    permanent lung damage. This is a public health crime.
  • Florence Murphy
    Those who's egos are are as huge as the universe are incapable of thinking about others. Nine eleven showed Rudy as he truly is; just as Katrina showed shrub as he truly is. What else is there to say?
  • Gloria Foster
    Sad to see how Rudy, the mayor of NYC, on the critical day of 9/11 did not show bravery and leadership which was needed and was instead was a self-serving despicable character.
  • dave luckens
    the rudy who is running for president is a media/public relations invention.the real guy talks tough to microphones,and struts for the cameras.having said that,he may well be the next president.yuck.
  • naomi
    911 was a false flag operation that included major corporate money, who were doing insider trading on airline stocks right before 911, Saudis leaving the US on the day of 911, military war games going on to make sure radar was totally down, the list goes on and on. Rudy was in on the deal. That's why he made sure all the evidence from the towers were shipped to China before any investigation could be done. Bush, Cheney and the Neocons owe Gulliani and so he's getting the hype that he needs to possibly get the nomination. Once he's in the WH (they think) he will be able to totally quash any investigations and they will again be able to pull another "911" and get martial law instituted in the US. Then it's all over for this proud country. We will be like any bananna republic in South America.

    Rudy was paid to "fail"....
  • me
    9/11 was an inside job.
    The towers were demolitioned.
    one droped in 9 seconds.
    the other in 10.
    And the other one fell why? It wasnt hit.

    Go to.
    www.puppetgov.com
    Then down the rabbit hole.
    Then watch 9/11 mysteries.

    After watching some of the facts. Think!

    Hope this scares the hell out of you.
    It did me.

    ME.
  • Greg Fordyce
    An excellent, brutally honest film that exposes yet another Republican spin operation on the biggest tragedy in American history to make their party look like they are "tough on terror," when, in fact, they are nothing but opportunists and liars that use falsehoods about their role in that tragedy - to this day - to further their ideological agenda. It is despicable the number of dead bodies the Republicans will stand on to get what they want.
  • Paul Utiger
    I was an Independent until 2000. Now, I'm a Democrat and I am appalled by your negative ads..... The sword really cuts both ways. Knock it off...

    Sincerely,

    Paul B. Utiger
    putiger@comcast.net
  • John Lewis
    What a fake he is! If Rudy becomes president in 2009, he might succeed in doing something no other candidate now running could possibly do: make George W. Bush look like an honest man.
  • E.L. Ross
    Like a true Republican, Rudy divided the city population against each other. Divide and conquer-the Republican strategy. The man is a lying coward. If George Bushit had been a real leader, if he had been available to the people and to the press, Rudy would have been only a blip. Rudy looked good because to the lazy, ineffectual media in this country, he was THERE, taking the role that GWB was too stupid and cowardly to assume and to which he was elected.
  • Benihana
    From now on, anyone supporting Giuliani who wishes to be anonymous on this blog will be erased by the Counter-NWO. Don't be a jellyfish.
  • Allan Richardson
    Locating the Emergency Command Center in the very building complex most likely to be attacked was as STUPID as if a Florida city, such as Miami, located its HURRICANE Emergency Center on the BEACH!
  • Benihana
    I'm a big Webster Tarpley fan. David Ray Griffin is best for beginners however. If you study the Rockefellons and Rothschilds you see perfectly how 9-11 fits into the grand scheme.
  • Nan Froggie
    Guliani's campaign looks like the work of Vincent J. Breglio (Vince Breglio).
  • timothy price
    you need to do more omework, Giuliani looks to have been involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 "attack". You should read, "Crossing the Rubicon" and see how he was hooked uo to Cheney who had, for some unexplained reason, comand control over NORAD only during the attack.
    They planned and carried out the attack.
  • timothy price
    you need to do more omework, Giuliani looks to have been involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 "attack". You should read, "Crossing the Rubicon" and see how he was hooked uo to Cheney who had, for some unexplained reason, comand control over NORAD only during the attack.
    They planned and carried out the attack.
  • Benihana
    You'd think ROOOOOOOOODIE would have known better than to spend 13 million dollars on an emergency command center with bullet-proof windows, auxilliary power and air systems, than to put in a building that felt so bad after the towers collapsed it just committed suicide. Now that's the kind of leadership we could really use. Right?
  • Benihana
    Those darn Muslims with the dead looking eyes, they really must hate our freedom more than say Norway or Sweden perhaps. I guess we're lucky one of the plane didn't take out a nuclear reactor near NYC eh? US/Britain/Israel Inside Job all the way. Stop the denial!!!!!! Look up the PNAC Rebuilding America's Defenses document from 1998. Visit the Republican Jewish Coalition's website for an appetizer while you inform your Ph.D mind.
  • Linda Hansen
    Go to www.baracktheyouthvote.org and read my op-ed: Rudy-Tootie, Fresh and Fruity.

    It's all there.
  • LIZ ALLEN
    WRONG FOR 911! Rudy lied, people died, judgment on command center dead wrong! Rudy is a warmonger, wanted a death squad commander made homeland security! wrong for nyc, wrong for america, wrong for the republican party...is he bi sexual, another closet hypocrite? A question!
  • Gordon Silverstone
    This is just simple rubbish. The truth is well known by all of us democrats, in New York and outside of New York. Rudy placed the post where Clinton told him to put it, or Clintoon said NO FED FUNDS. Clintoon forced the stupid move, and then lied about it.

    Rudy was able to take care of New York in spite of Clintoon. As a die hard Democrat, I demand Rudy be vindicated and the truth be told. Rudy saved NY, kept NY safe in spite of Clintoon not protecting the city. Clintoon denied the greatest city in the world federal protection by calling the 1993 attack just a police action. What a moron, no wonder he and hillary are hated here in NY!

    Come on people, tell the dogs the truth, the Republicans are trying to make Rudy look bad so they can get Thompson in. Rudy is really the best mayor and will be a great President, even though he is a republican. Vote for Rudy and post the Rudy truth and VOTE RUDY!!!
  • Rudy who? Oh Gouliani! That dorkuss is a joke! Why do you waste any time on this asshole?
    I cannot believe anyone would actually vote for this turdball for dogcatcher. He's a joke, but in poor taste.
  • Despoina Ikaris, Ph.D. (London
    After the '93 attack, common knowledge was that a second strike would be at the top of the WTC. Instead of trying to avoid this second attack, RG facilitated it. If he had enforced immigration laws, the w WTC would still be there, thousands would be alive, and MOHAMMED ATTA would be in jail.
    Thanks to RG's Sanctuary City, ATTA WAS FREE TO LIVE IN BAY RIDGE, ON RIDGE BOULEVARD, NEAR MY HOME, AND - NOT BY CHANCE - NEAR THE 69TH ST. PIER WITH ITS PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE NY SKYLINE. THERE, ATTA COULD STUDY THE PROFILE OF THE WTC AND PLAN HIS FLIGHT INTO THE TWIN TOWERS.
    ATTA WAS A FAMILIAR FIGURE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND AT LOWEN'S PHARMACY. THE PHARMACIST REMEMBERS ATTA WELL, SAYS ATTA SEEMED AN ORDINARY FELLOW EXCEPT FOR HIS STRANGE, DEAD-LOOKING SYES. AFTER 9/11, PEOPLE RECOGNIZED ATTA IN THE NEWS PICTURES BY THOSE STRANGE EYES AND THEN WE KNEW WHO HAD REALLY BEEN LIVING AMONG US.
    RG HAS A MONUMENTAL EGO TO BE RUNNING FOR PRES. AS THE HERO OF 9/11. IN FACT GIULIANI IS RESPONSIBLE NOT ONLY FOR LETTING THAT DISASTER HAPPEN, BUT ALSO FOR INVITING IT. THANKS TO GIULIANI TERRORISTS LIKE ATTA WERE AT LARGE IN RG'S SANCTUARY CITY.
    THE TRAGIC FACT IS THAT MAYOR BLOOMBERG REFUSES TO LEARN THE LESSON OF 9/11. SO SOME OF US CONTINUE TO GO TO BED AT NIGHT WONDERING WHAT NEW MISCHIEF MAKERS ARE AMONG US WHETHER WE SHALL WAKE UP IN ONE PIECE.
    I PERSONALLY KNOW SOME SUCH ILLEGAL CRIMINALS WHO ARE FREE TO LIVE HERE AND MULTIPLY WITH ANCHOR BABIES; FOR N.Y. POLICE STILL HAVE THE OLD ORDERS (FROM KOCH, RG, AND NOW BLOOMBERG) "DON'T BOTHER THE IMMIGRANTS." THE POLICE ALSO HAVE AN ADDED ORDER FROM MAYOR BLOOMBERG: "LEAN OVER BACKWARDS FOR THE MUSLIMS."

    P.S.;
    AFTER 9/11, WE MUST WONDER WHAT GOES ON IN THE MINDS OF OUR LEADERS WHO ARE INTENT ON "MAKING NICE" TO THE MUSLIMS WHEN THESE ISLAMISTS OPENLY SAY THAT ISLAM IS "A POLITICAL IDEOLOGY" AND ANNOUNCE - JUST AS THE COMMUNISTS AND THE NAZIIS USED TO SAY - THAT MUSLIMS ARE HERE, NOT TO ASSIMILATE, BUT TO DOMINATE AND ESTABLISH THEIR CALIPHATE. wHAT ARE OUR LEADERS THINKING? GO FIGURE.

    D.S.Ikaris, Ph.D. (London)
    Professor Emeritus, CUNY)
  • p. lepome
    It appears that Rudy insisted on a command center located in the World Trade Center because of cronyism.
  • talktalk
    Rudy is more concerned about His Reputation than the Thousands of Lives lost in great part due to his incompetence. And to this Day he pretends to be the Hero and Corporate Media play Him as the 911 superman. He is really the
    911 Superfailure.
  • Lenny Tamulonis
    The only screw-up was renting 7 WTC (I worked in that bldg for 10 yrs and worked in #2 WTC for 10 yrs). Idiots choice. He was a prick when he was mayor, I can imagine what he'll be like as president.
  • Rudy Giuliani failed New Yorkers with his brutal police force and mob-style mayoral tenure. He failed victims' families by barricading streets to avoid their questions.
    He failed first responders and Ground Zero workers by backing up the EPA's false statements that the air was safe...Brooklyn also suffered from the toxic ash (towers filled with asbestos).
    He failed the United States by taking part in the 9/11 Hoax and conspiracy, a false-flag terror event designed to mobilize resource wars/profiteering, corporatocratic anarchy and mediaopoly.
    9/11 was an inside job, please Google "WTC 7," the building that collapsed @ 5:20pm that day. It housed Rudy's command bunker and many interesting offices (FBI, CIA, SEC, etc.).
  • L.C.-H.
    Why did he fail us?...Because he was supposed to! Not a hard question to answer if the truth is what you seek. He is a member of an elite group of powerful manipulators, wealthy corporatists, self aggrandizing, self promoting, Greedy Oligarch Parasites; That is what GOP really means!
  • All the information you cite is true, but the most damning issue related to Rudy is his being an insider in the fraud of 9/11 as witnessed by his receiving warning of an utterly unforeseeable event - the collapse of the towers. He is on record as having been warned, yet he apparently did nothing to warn the firefighters who were at that moment fighting the fires on the 78th floor. They had just announced that they needed a couple of lines to knock down the fires there, and you can almost hear those who had their fingers on the detonator buttons saying -"Christ, they are about to put out the fire in WTC 2, better blow it now".

    Guiliani belongs in the big house, not the White House.
  • Gary Batterson
    You didn't put in a choice "... because he's a lying sack of shit" his main reasons for locating his so called emergency operations center were to give him a close-by place to rendevousz with whatever mistress he was jumping at the time and to put bucks in a buddies pocket-just what the main theme is for all of these "crime family " pols who, if hey didn't directly plan it, they sure as hell exacerbated 9-11 for their and their buddies financial and control benefits
  • Norma Desprez
    He had been forewarned and knew better than to interfere.
  • Joel Rosenblum
    Then why the hell is he the front-runner? Are Republicans that callous?
  • Curt Ellerbe
    He is only a grandstander, and how he got so much media attention and became a plastic hero is beyond comprehension, except for the bullibility of the Republican Culture of Corruption.
  • marjorie rich
    It isn't a failure on 9/11 that I fault him for, but taking advantage of a disaster to promote himself. He is an egotistical man with questionable values. I detest hypocricy, and we have had quite enough of that
  • Robert D Eckel
    Let's concentrate on throwing the Republicans, ALL of them, out!
    Let the Republicans kill each off in the internecine fights, our job is to kick them out of office!
  • June Wolodkin
    Emergency command center in No. 1 terror target.
  • William Dusseau
    I was in NYC at Pier 17 for a DAvid Cassidy CD signing in 1998. I told my wife and boy to take a good look at the WTC because the terrorists would hit it again. It was obvious and logical that they would do this since their earlier attack was a failure and made them look incompetent. I could tell this in 1998 and I am from Michigan. Rudy, at the time, leader of NYC could not see this, and exceeded the terrorists in incompetence.
  • Henrik Erslev
    What the hell are you doing?! It is better to have the scum bag that you know get the nomination then the scum bag, Fred Thompson that is a first class liar!!!
  • Lee Shepherd
    You need to see "Heart of Steel" written and directed by Angelo Guglielmo which was in the Tribeca Film Festival last. It is a documentary about a group of civilian volunteers who were wholly responsible for tracking down and supplying the correct 3M gas masks for the rescue workers.They tracked a delivery semi tractor trailer and gor the Feds to supply the money so these first responders would live. Rudy didn't get them anything. It is a great film!!!!!
  • J DUNCAN
    I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE COMMAND CENTER LOCATION PROBLEM OR THE REST OF THE STORIE PRETAINING TO CRONIES. AND FOR THE LIEING....IT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES AND HEAVIENESS TO MY HEART :-{. I PRAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES DO THE RIGHT THING AND CHOOSE A LEADER THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF US...AND CAUSE LESS HARM TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD...
  • ORLANDO
    RUDY FAILED BECAUSE HE WAS TOLD NOT TO PUT THE COMMAND AND CONTROL IN THE WTC, AND HE DID IT ANYWAY, DID HE LEARN FROM THE FIRST TIME IT WAS BOMBED... GUESS NOT....IDIOT..
  • Anthony D'Avanza Jr
    Rudy is a phoney and incompitant like most polititians and a complete lier,Like 90% of the Republicans. Dems aren't too much better we need a parlimentary system or 3 to 4 real parties who are ALLOWED to compete. Democracy is gone in the US. It is a sham. WAKE UP!
    Anthony
  • Ivan Sherman
    During the weeks following 9/11 I kept insisting Gullianu was already launchung his campaign for president over the bodies of dead fire fighters. Why else was he appearing on tv with his fake press conferences three times a day?
  • Hamilton
    Rudy is as bad or worse than Bush. He is a cross-dresser in and out of politics (have you seen him in drag?).
  • JOE ENTRAPED
    I WAS ENTRAPED BY THE GOV & MAYOR OF NY,BECAUSE THEY WANTED ME TO BE A RAT,ABOUT SOMETHING I HAD NO IDEA EXCEPT I HAVE AN ITALIAN LAST NAME! THEY WANTED ME TO BE BROKE AND ENTRAPED ME INTO CRIME BY AN UNDER COVER STATETROOPER WHO WORKED FOR ME FOR THREE YEAR'S IN THE JKJAVIT'S CENTER!
  • ANONYMOUS
    I was standing behind RG when he was giving a speech to the NPDY and FDNY 2 months after 9/11.
    He needed an autocue to read a speech. Each point was underlined for emphasis. For Example "You guys are heroes" You think he would have been to speak from the heart., It was all spin. I also lost respect for Senator Daeschle ( leader of the house) who did the same.

    Clinton stepped up to the plate and spoke for ten minutes. No autocue , no notes straight from brain to mouth.

    At the time I could not understand why RG was being booed, now I do.
  • John Ratamer
    I live in NY. I'm so sick of hearing him babble about 911 like he was so heroic. FUCK RUDY!!!!
  • Tom Baker
    Giuliani is no different than Bush. He is a coward who ran from the WTC much the same way Bush ran from serving in Viet Nam. The incompetence is mind boggeling.Who in their right mind would support this imposter?
  • Nancy Mills
    I don't know why RUDY failed,
    but I DO know that 9/11 was an inside job!!
    I have seent the BBC video , announcing the collapse of WTC bldg 7 (not struck by a plane, not included in the 9/11 commission)
    BEFORE it actually happenened!!!
    THIS is what needs to be investigated, along with all the other Bush regime crimes, at the IMPEACHMENT of him and Cheney!!!!!
  • Willard Williams
    What happened after 9/11 was insignificate as compared to the mistakes before 9/11. There were a lot of things we can point to as pre-failures but I believe the biggest sin is not admitting to your failure. What is wrong with saying "I made a mistake, I was wrong". That is what bothers me about 9/11 more than anything. No one will admit their mistakes that led up to the attacks.
  • liv
    Rudy may have made NewYork great but his numbers were low, about 25% pre 911. but that has nothing to do with this video. This video is about a Liar.

    This argument like so many NeoCon responses do one thing...they ignore the truth.

    Watch the video again, someone is lying, is it Rudy or is it the other guy. Keep it simple and you'll get your answer.

    Personally I think Rudy is lying. And if he is, he should not be given a chance to become the President of a country with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet.
  • Rob
    you think you could have done better? I was there, and Rudy was great. This is obviously some anti Rudy propiganda. You can spin it any way you want. Rudy made NY great again after it had been a cesspool for decades. I think America needs a man like RUDY.
  • Please let them nominate him. He is as much a moron as W.
  • Irish
    He did the best he could in an incredible, horrendous situation...No one man could have done more...
  • Debra
    Rudy failed because before the dust finished rolling down the streets of NYC he was already assuming a hero mentality.
  • eriKKa
    This is in response to those that are saying hindsight is 20/20 and that this video is an example of being a Monday morning quarterback. I don't think the video is attempting to say that Rudy should have done better on the day. I think BNF recognizes that September 11th was a day that no one in this country had ever experienced before and that any elected official would have struggled and had difficulties. The trouble comes into play because Rudy made it doubly difficult for himself to respond and to be able to disseminate information to emergency responders because he put his command center in the ONLY place that had been attacked by terrorists. It's interesting that people are calling this liberal propaganda or a one-sided piece. There is nothing in this piece that isn't factual. You can look it all up or read about it in the 9/11 commission report. It's all real, laid out in front of you to read. I challenge you to find one thing in the article that isn't backed up with evidence. Rudy is running around saying he wants to be president and calling himself Mr. Terrorism Expert because of 9/11 - what exactly did he do on 9/11 that makes him an expert? Put the command center in a previously attacked target? Good job Rudy - you rock!
  • Anonymous
    Want to take money away from Rudy Guiliani's campaign? Google his name and click on his sponsored link. It's a pay per click ad, we could effectively take millions away from his campaign. Ron Paul doesn't have paid online advertising because we do it for him. Pass this on to everyone. If the meetup groups can pass this on we can really hurt his campaign.
  • Constance Vieira da Cunha
    My ex-husband, Brazilian, worked at Lehman brothers in a low rise building right at the World Trade Center. He managed to get out but is still traumatized but what he saw. My hearts go out to all who lost people but especially the Fireman. American's finest!
  • bill davis
    he's a self serving p.o.s interested only in making himself look good....him and the rest of the mainstream politicians don't give a damn about this country or the people in it. he's a criminal, pure and simple.
  • rudy4pres
    Your smear campaign is not going to Hillary elected.
  • I recently was reading a stream of comments on an article, dealing with Rudy. In this stream there was a comment, by one contributor, who claimed that his dream ticket, for the upcoming general election, Was Giuliani-Lieberman. Therein lay the true danger. The absolute stupidity, and disregard for finding out the true facts, on the part of the American people.
    God help us.
  • Christopher Purk
    How could Rudy have "failed" the people of New York City when he had FOREKNOWLEDGE of 9/11? As far as he was concerned, it turned out to be a smashing success! The Dallas city management had foreknowledge of Pres. Kennedy' assassination as well. To me, 9/11 was just like 11/22(that's what I call the assassination- 11/22!).
  • you all living in denail.
  • randy newland
    wasn't it strange how Rudy giggled & snickered before each Ron Paul response at the 9/5/07 N. H. republican debate?..not to mention the split screen showing GHOOL-iani smurking & snickering while Ron Paul spoke..the Faux news propaganda ministers will need more than Rudy Ghooli-giggling to stop Ron Paul,the ONLY real conservative candidate for President
    RON PAUL 2008
  • randy newland
    Rudy was without a shred of doubt,point of fact,as deeply involved in the 9-11 cover up/inside job as Larry Silverstein,the U.S. military industrial complex,the Bush crime family & APEC.If this Mafioso criminal would ever become President....?God help us all..thanks to robert Greenwald & brave new books for getting out the story of the REAL Rudy GHOOL-iani!
  • Don Patterson
    Rudy Giuliani like most political liars, cowards and con artists, will constantly try to rewrite the truth and history. Rudy is a prime example of the decay from within The United States of America. Rather then accept having made a bad choice, place the blame, re write and change the facts and glorify in the stupidity of the cult of personality.
  • Benihana
    Rather than take responsibility for failing to protect 9/11 firefighters and recovery workers from debilitating toxic air at Ground Zero, Rudy Giuliani has decided to play the blame game. Over the weekend, Giuliani's campaign tried to smear fellow Republican and former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman who will testify before Congress today over 9/11 health issues and air quality.

    Despite Rudy's desperate attempts to shift blame, records show that his administration was aware of the toxic levels of asbestos in air samples of Ground Zero but he "sidelined" federal agencies with "extensive disaster response experience." Giuliani's administration assigned clean-up to an unknown city agency and re-opened sections of Manhattan "despite knowing the air was toxic," "overruling" the city's Department of Environmental Protection which found high levels of asbestos in 27 of 38 tests conducted before Giuliani refuted concerns about the air quality and said the "air quality is safe and acceptable." [The New York Times, 5/14/07; UPI, 9/7/06; Giuliani, 9/28/01; New York Post, 9/7/06; Daily News, 9/6/06]

    As a result of Rudy Giuliani's poor decisions, "more than 2,000 New York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory problems." He also has yet to comment on evidence disclosed last month showing the dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center has been definitively linked to a death. Firefighters and 9/11 family members angered by Giuliani's lack of accountability have protested his campaign events and have filed lawsuits against the city. [The New York Times, 5/24/07; The New York Times, 5/14/07; New York Observer, 5/29/07]

    "The way Rudy Giuliani has bucked responsibility for this serious health issue speaks volumes about his shabby brand of leadership," said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. "Instead of trying to smear a colleague, Giuliani should just truthfully answer the concerns of the firefighters and 9/11 families who are protesting his candidacy. As Americans learn more about Giuliani's refusal to take responsibility for his poor 9/11 decisions, they too will question his ability to lead the country."


    Giuliani Misled Public, First Responders About Ground Zero Conditions, Leading To Widespread Health Problems; Now He Bucks Responsibility

    Giuliani Touts Accountability. On the Giuliani Partners website, Giuliani is quoted as saying, "Nothing builds confidence in a leader more than a willingness to take responsibility for what happens during his watch." [Giuliani Partners, www.giulianipartners.com accessed 6/25/07]

    But, When the Truth About The Air Quality at Ground Zero Was Revealed, Giuliani Passed The Blame. Responding to former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's charges that the city didn't adequately address air quality problems, the Giuliani campaign passed the buck and blasted Whitman as the one at fault, issuing a fact sheet entitled "Setting The Record Straight" and saying that "Administrator Whitman never voiced any of these concerns at the time." [www.joinrudy2008.com accessed 6/25/07]


    Giuliani Dismissed TEST RESULTS, Exposing Workers And Public

    Giuliani Said Air Was Safe In Late September '01. In late September 2001, Giuliani flatly denied that air quality at Ground Zero was an issue, saying at a press conference: "The air quality is safe and acceptable. And I know there are people that are concerned about it and people that are worried about it, but that's just the reality." [Giuliani, 9/28/01 (emphasis added)]

    But Giuliani Already Knew That The Air Was Toxic, After 27 Bad Test Results. Investigations by the media and the public interest groups revealed documents showing that "Giuliani re-opened sections of downtown Manhattan weeks after the 9/11 attacks despite knowing the air was toxic," and that he "overruled" the city's Department of Environmental Protection. According to the Daily News, 27 of 38 tests before his statement that the air was safe showed elevated levels of asbestos. [UPI, 9/7/06; New York Post, 9/7/06; Daily News (New York), 9/6/06]

    Giuliani Did Not Enforce Safety Standards. The Daily News reported, "Giuliani and the city failed miserably to enforce federal safety rules at the site. For weeks, the city did not ensure that every worker used proper respirators and decontamination methods - something federal inspectors noted in a highly critical report on Oct. 6, 2001." The New York Times wrote that official documents, interviews and legal testimony show that the city "never meaningfully enforced federal requirements that those at the site wear respirators." [Daily News (New York), 9/6/06; New York Times, 5/14/07]


    Firefighters, Public Falling Ill By The Thousands

    WTC Dust "Clearly Linked" To A Serious and Fatal Diseases. The World Trade Center toxic dust was directly linked to sarcoidosis, a debilitating and potential fatal disease that firefighters developed at 5 times the rate after exposure to the toxins. According to The New York Times, in a 2007 "clinical study to clearly link World Trade Center dust to serious and sometimes fatal diseases, doctors have found that the number of New York City rescue and recovery workers with a rare type of lung-scarring condition soared in the year after the trade center collapsed." [New York Times, 5/8/07, www.nytimes.com ]

    Several Firefighters Later Died and Thousands Fell Ill. Thousands of firefighters developed illnesses and what has become known as World Trade Center cough. "Beyond all doubt" the deaths of at least four responders were "a direct consequence of their service" at the WTC site according to the Daily News. [New York Times, 2/27/07; 5/14/07; Newsday (New York), 1/31/07; Daily News (New York), 7/25/06]

    Healthcare Costs Starting Estimated At $250 Million Just For Workers. The Bush administration, after "impassioned pleas" by members of New York's congressional delegation, agreed in 2007 to spend $25 million to care for rescue workers, a down payment towards total costs estimated at $250 million. [New York Times, 1/31/07]



    NYC FACING LAWSUITS FOR GIULIANI'S ACCTIONS

    City Facing Lawsuits For "Inexcusable Violation" Of Safety Laws; Giuliani Administration Was Concerned About Lawsuits in 2001. Groups of recovery workers and first responders are suing the city. "Lawyers representing the workers argue that after the first two weeks the city was guilty of an ''inexcusable violation of basic safety laws'' because it did not ensure that the workers had proper protective equipment, like half-face respirators, and the training to use them." [New York Times, 6/23/06]
  • Robert M. Becker
    To Americans outside of NYC he appeared to be a HERO, the real heros died that day at the WTC site. The Mayor was a dismill failure in running NYC, he hired cronies with no professional expierence and failed to take the advise of the OEM staff who did not want the command center at #7WTC. He wandered aimnlessly that day because he insisted that a command center be placed in walking distance to City Hall, he is a bully & does not care about people he should have remained a prosecutor.
  • Benihana
    Poor little uninformed JR, you are in such denial. Admit it we made a mistake electing the shrub, look at the history of his crime family, Prescott Bush was a war profiteer who financed the Third Reich, look at the Bush connections to the JFK assassination. Open your eyes to the truth and do some real research.
  • Susam V. Nail
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    Rudy Giuliani is to blame for the death of the firefighters. He is not fit to be President.
  • JR
    Rudy didn't fail, nor did Bush. I would love to see some of you left wing asshats in the same situation to see what you would do.

    I am so freaking tired of you liberal arm chair quarterbacks. The more you believe your own bullshit the more obvious you become.
  • Michael Cooper
    I can't vote on Rudy's worst mistake. I keep getting a refreshed screen with the message that my email address is invalid. By whose estimation? This is my email adress. You'll have to agree if you get this message.
  • Brandt
    After reading all these irrational comments (for example, about how horrible it was for Giuliani to have a command center on the top floor of the WTC...what better place pre-911 so as to look over the city) I've just become a big Guiliani supporter. Before I saw this website I never thought that much of the fellow, but after reading the crap here and doing some research, that guy is my hero.
  • Jax
    American need a hero,we got Rudy;
    American need blood,we got the Iraq;
    American need a enemy,we got Bin Laden (after the Russia,after the China).
    American need a blow job,we got G.W.Bush.
    Oh, May God blow America.
  • Barry
    He used 911 to start a bid for the presidency. He is not America's mayor, he was New York's mayor. He failed at protecting New York
  • Nancy Bracewell
    Weren't Enron case records stored there? Records that would show complicity on the part of the cronies.
  • Jax Birdman
    He's not just failed us on 9/11, he also rape us all by post himself a hero over 3,000+++ dead bodies.
  • greg Mahan
    While I am not saying passanger air liners did not fly into the World Trade Centers. I am saying a FBI agent Harry Ellen informed higher up of students in flight school only wanting to learn to fly planes and not land them. There were 4 jumbo jet airliners disappear from radar screens in a 2hr period. One jumbo airliner strikes WTC, 15mins later a 2nd jet strikes the other TC. Jet crashes into the Pentagon. All of this goes on and not one jet scrambles. I am not saying conspiracy but smell like rotten fish to me. Rudy might not have known pre attack but.......
  • Jon Koppenhoefer
    Rudy failed New York's fire and police by grandstanding rather than quietly managing the technical requirements of a smoothly operating system of emergency services.

    The lack of equipment that allowed fire and police to talk to one another on 9/11, the location of the 'command center'--which itself became a part of ground zero--and many other technical details all mitigate against claims made by Rudy and his cronies that he is the 'hero of 9/11'.

    The only heroes of 9/11 are the people of New York who risked their lives, lost their lives, and still suffer from the long-term health effects of breathing the toxic air on that horrible day. (Thanks to Rudy and that other goddamned incompetent hack at the EPA, Christie Todd Whitman, for lying to everyone about the hazards of breathing the toxic air.)

    Why Rudy failed us? He was obviously campaigning for President even on 9/11; never one to miss an opportunity to stand on a pile of corpses in order for the crowd to get a better look at him while he speechifies about his own heroism.

    That miserable piece of (*&(*#(&$ Giuliani should live long enough to see somebody else beat him to the GOP nomination. And I don't mean that other phony Thompson.
  • Joan Phelps
    While browsing the comments, I noticed a complaint from one individual about a comment not being saved for more than a day. I believe this individual might not have noticed how the comments are archived. Also, I inadvertantly tried to click
    on one of the respondent's comments regarding the lack of investigation of the steel beams from the trade buildings (wanted to ask him/her if they knew if the buildings contained asbestos)before I gave a second thought that your site is is for collecting opinions, disseminating facts and opinions, similar to an editorial page in the newspaper. Yeah!
    On a more basic level regarding Guiliani, my personal opinion is that he has all the charm of a cobra, the greed of Midas, and the loyalty of a trained for "kill" pit bull to his masters. FDNY and NYPD have been among the victims, so far, contained to NYC.
    Thank you for allowing my opinion without giving a "password".
  • T. Warren
    Why are our elected officials so blatently putting our lives in danger by hiring and/or making stupid decisions based on using cronies for political or egotistical gain? Do they think we are that stupid? It's shameful and unacceptable. This person should not even be given the time of day for any public office ever again.
  • B.G. Lyons
    goolie-on-me is w/ he NWO

    He takes...
    orders
    that look as he immitates
    how they do
    Do Not Fall for this
    READ YOUR BIBLE
    read for yourself
  • cecilia B. Pfeiffer
    He used this to make a great deal of money and promoted some very shady people.
  • walt heim
    basic common sense says you DO NOT install a command center in an upper floor - you have no access in an emergency - just the opposite of what a sane person would do.
  • claire and bob phillips
    we would not consider voting for giuliani for all of the reasons listed in the box above - did not like him as nyc mayor, do not know what he was supposed to have done to make him such a "hero" after 9/11 - think he is the worse possible presidential candidate
  • Red Winzer
    The only difference between Rudy and "W" is that he doesn't have Karl Rove working for him YET!!!
  • liv
    Whats interesting is this "story' is not getting any traction.

    Here you have a candidate for the presidency lying about his staff and yet, the news isn't covering it.

    What is the matter with the US, you have old neocons squealing on Bush like Tenet and Bremmer, you have Brown laying out what really went on in New orleans and NOTHING.

    How can a country like the US get to a point it can be conned into trying to impeach a president for getting a blow job, conned into letting a witch from Florida control the presidential outcome, conned into attackign a country that had nothign to do wityh Osama, conned into relecting Bush for round 2.

    Folks, as your northenr neighbour looking from the outside, you had better forget iraq, instead, concentrate on IMPEACHMENT.

    The citizens of the US must take a stand and drag this imbecile and his cronies onto the world stage and demand their removal. Anything less is a further weakening of your country.

    I really really feel bad for what the US has become.
  • Joan Phelps
    Rudy was dismissed from his post immediately preceding the attacks on the trade buildings. He became a "hero" simply because he was still in New York. Mr. Silverstein, a major contributor to the Republican party, possessor of a lease on the trade buildings that he had paid two months towards, insured by a son of a Bush employee, received several million dollars and later sued for double indemnity.
    Clerks, waiters, janitors, fireman, and other working people were destroyed along with the buildings. With all the yakity-yak about EQ sneaking into the country, being so clever they avoided detection by FBI and CIA, one must ask why they didn't try to hit Congress in session, or the White House when occupied by the president?
    Get out your duct tape people, read the red, orange and yellow alerts, Bush and his new Homeland Security bureaucrats will be ever vigilant to collect their salaries.
    Follow the money, the privilege, the cronyism and the deception. Not a "conspiracy theory" but documented facts. Rudy remains loyal to his mentors.
  • Steve
    Enjoy the kool-aid liberals. Rudy 2008!
  • CAROLYN
    AT THE TIME I WAS GLUED TO THE T.V., AS I AM SURE ALL AMREICANS WERE, FOR ME I WAS FOR ABOUT 4 MONTHS, & CRIED FOR MY FALLEN BROS. & SIS'S. ITS A TERRIABLE THING WHEN WE CAN NOT EVEN TRUST OUR GOVERMENT!!!- - - -LORD WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US & OUR "ONCE" GREAT COUNTRY, MAY LORD HELP US ALL.
  • Jesse
    He's a megalomaniac who can't be shown to be wrong? Giuliani is wrong for America.
  • Steve
    He was a strong leader that day right through till today. Good luck with trying to bring down our nation's next president.
    He is by far the strongest candidate on the war on terror which is our biggest concern in 2008. Pssst to the moderators here...nobody hears you.
  • Francis Hagan
    Rudy is a disgusting person. The FDNY hates him because the firemen could not hear warnings from the NYPD about the collapsing buildings. Their radios were NOT on the same frequencies.
    The NYPD, while killing and beating Black and Brown people, were busy shouting, "It's Giuliani time!"
    Rudy put his command center in Building 7, against the advice of of anyone with brains. Rudy was advised to put it in Brooklyn!
  • J
    he is one of the cabal that are part of the whole conspiracy of bringing down all the towers by controled demolition,its very easy to see once you do the reasearch.They do this to move on their agenda with the JBC,jewish Billionaire Club.
  • Fred Sennott
    He was to busy grandstanding and taking credit for procedures that had been SOP with NYCs first responders since Laquardia's days.
  • Kennneth G. Rodermel
    Rudy was too much for himself to get all the publication he could by using the sad affair as a tool to make hemself bigger than he really is!
  • Nancy S.
    I really hope Guliani wins the Republican Nomination! He is such an obvious FRAUD AND LIAR, maybe he will be the easiest to defeat!
    And thank you to all the truth-tellers who will help defeat him!
  • Vanessa Baker
    Mr. Guiliani has no compassion for any other person but himself as is exhibited by the cruel way he publicly treated his last wife and their children. This flaw interferred with his management of the emergency workers during 9/11.

    It is apparent he doesn't have the right skills to run a city in an emergency and wouldn't know how to run our country in a similar situation. The only credential Mr. Guiliani has to run on is 9/11. I would hope that the elusion of leadership skills he tries to create from 9/11 is revealed during the presidential race before he is elected President.

    This man is clearly not prepared to repair our country after the destruction and mayhem caused by this administration. Mr. Guiliani would just be more of what we have had for 8 years.
  • red
    i hope your films cover the heinous events of the east fifth street squats. it was basically a weekend military operation, in violation of several court orders, to destroy two buildings full of people's lives, for trumped up reason. the more you know about that weekend the angrier you will be, it was a fine example of what a piece of shit this guy really is.
  • Chuck T Garner
    Because he's a republican- republicans have to prove over and over again that they're in favor of small government, and the best way to demonstrate that is to bungle the job, like Katrina, like the invasion & occupation of Iraq, like the economy, or the Justice Department, or, worst of all the VA medical administration. Their basic ideology prevents them from doing anything connected with big government with anything approaching efficiency. But they're real good at stealing elections, I'll give them that.
  • Steve
    ya know, I'm so not a 911 "truther" for lack of a better term, but this video really exposes why the political process of "scratch my back, i'll scratch yours" is the worst form of politcal corruption we face, in fact its killing us as a nation, in all honesty do we need a lisping, cross-dressing former NYC mayor leading us ? I think not, I'll admit to being a Ron Paul supporter straight up ! and i have to say that Guliani's smarmy laughing and smirking during Dr. Paul's responses piqued my ire, but it also reinforced that Guliani is in this race for the sake of Guliani, that may set well with the Northeasterners', but not with most of the the rest of us out here in "flyover country"
  • eldon rollins
    a. its more of a partisan comment. When Rudy Giuliano decided to run for office, he placed his veracity on the line. If people involved in the events of that terrible day have a different perception of events than the one Giuliani has been marketing to the public, they are entitled to say so.
    b. You don't really think anyone in our government wanted jets flown into the World Trade Center, do you?
    The conspiracy started when they looked at what happened and planned how they could spin it to their advantage.
  • Theresa Heaton
    The attacks on 9/11 were pre-orchestrated, and Juliani was involved in the conspiracy of the century. I only hope it will be uncovered and presented in my lifetime.
  • Richard C Kracke
    He was more interested in "face time" in the media rather than demonstrating leadership. He merely reported what the "doers" had done.
  • Benihana
    One sided reporting? Come on Mr. Scientist chalk one up for the grossly underrepresented point of view. The NY Times calls the ROOOOOODY America's Mayor, that's like saying I should be a Cowboys fan. The right wingnut jobs control the media slant so we thinkers deserve a little advantage once in a while.
  • I think I've been making the point about the command center since 9/12/01. It was such an obvious blunder that NONE of the NY news media really held him to task on.
  • a scientist trained in critica
    What a shock! A self-serving politician who makes decisions based on making himself look good on camera, exchanging money and favors with insiders, and ignoring the advice of experts in order to further his own agenda.

    You could just as easily be talking about President Bush.

    -A politician who covers things up after mistakes are made...
    -A politician who uses media clips out of context to create different impressions...

    This darker side of human behavior is not NEW.

    The "Real Rudy" report was entirely one-sided. Quotes from the 9-11 report where isolated from their context within the report. The same loop is played over and over.

    Yes, the loop is confusing. You really cannot tell which direction anyone is heading. Does this prove he was leaving the scene? Or does it plant an image into the mind of the viewer and bias their thinking as the are presented the "facts"?

    While the claim is made that Rudy put a shine on the facts to give a message to the masses that he was handling the situation correctly, wasn't this message tailored to do something similar - to persuade viewers that this contrary picture of his actions is the correct version?

    Also, isn't it true that police and fire departments, police and sheriffs, police and the FBI, the FBI and the CIA...have problems "coordinating" their efforts?

    Is the mayor now in charge of making everything work in New York? In other words, if the system works, he might falsely claim the credit, but if it fails, he most certainly will get the blame.

    Perhaps the location of the command center was selected to send a message to terrorists? A backup center of course would have been prudent. A lot of things would have been prudent.

    Ultimately no one did a drill for an airplane flying into a building. People died trying to rescue others, and many of these deaths could have been prevented. Their survivors have the right to be enraged.

    Maybe the bottom line is that politicians tend to have the sort of personalities/egos that make it possible for them to endure the circus of trying to run for an elected office.

    The pressure to never make mistakes, the endless spin, and the need to suck up to others to make it into office culls the better planners and thinkers and doers from the ranks.

    Perhaps this glimpse of the real Rudy is 100% correct. But in my humble opinion, your presentation, done with such bias, doesn't inform to the level one wishes it could, and instead inflames. A more balanced report would make the case stronger.
  • Al Gomas
    Failed? Rudy did not fail at all. He executed his role in the coup perfectly. He is descended from gangsters and he has thrown in his lot with the most evil criminal gang in the history of the human species. "They" are cultivating his type for the day when the culling of the flock begins. It will be a huge inventory reduction, a blow out, so to speak. After all, if you look at the corporate system as it relates to governance, you will realize that the number of needy are too big a drag on the bottom line. Since the prime directive is profit, those PEOPLE, those fellow HUMANS, will be liquidated.
    Like Bu$h himself admitted at a fundraiser, "The haves and the have-mores...you're my base"
    The rest of us are expendable.
  • Robert
    Actually, he didn't fail. He accomplished what he wanted to accomplish: to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public, convincing them that we were attacked by Muslims from 'over there' when in reality we were attacked by a group of Americans working inside our own government.
  • Thomas Allen
    A triumph of media manipulation over reality creating a fictional hero from a fellow who has significant culpability for loss of life.
  • tom
    I believe that you cannot put a price on the value of such inquiries and documentary work. 9/11 was a complete failure of the federal and local government. Peter Lance, a reporter, has collected piles of evidence showing the FBI and CIA's incompetence in handeling evidence prior to the attack. the people have been mis lead and lied to by our government for too long. this is a great effort to bring the truth to light and I applaud you for your efforts. keep it up.
  • liv
    as an Italian, I am embarrased by this self serving liar.

    To the people of the United States, wake up, you've been slapped in the face enough times.
  • markmahrenholz
    9/11 was an inside job. Rudy did his part by making sure no investigators ever scrutinized the evidence in the biggest crime in American history. Rudy was complicit-he is a treasonous traitor.
  • rob-bee
    Thanks for unveiling the real guili-bunny. that's right...that buck-toothed bitch wants to be president? hunh! Sorry plunger-gurl, but no needs for your fascist, racist, ass in Warshington. It will take another 20 years to purge warshington of the klan stench that dummy(W) is leaving behind. NO thanks for a police-state america. perhaps the bitch should ask abner louima to campaign for him. hahahahahaha ha! sorry bucky...fred thompson is gonna defang you! and let us not forget the voodoo curse that the haitian community has in place 4u. remember colon cancer...asshole! bernie kerik....there is so much more in store for you and dumya..better get some salt!
  • Colleen
    I tried to click all the options to your question as they are all true. Perhaps you should include an all of the above button to click on.
  • Blaise A Gauba
    Kyle F. Hence, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I totally agree with your statement. There has been a massive, massive crime committed here and the so-called authorities have done everything in their power to pave over it.
  • He may have been the one who phisically initiated the demolition of all three buildings that day!!!
  • Rudy Giuliani like so many other criminal Republicans, is a coward, a liar, a thief and just like the Italian Dictator Musolini, a fascist. Giuliani does not care about the United States of America or the citizens of this country any more than he cares about the starving children in the Ghettos of New york City itself. He does not have a rats chance in Hell of becoming president unless of course the Bilderberg have already chosen him to BE president. Our votes DO NOT count when it comes to electing the leader of this country. So all in all, Guiliani can go to Hell.
  • Bert Jones
    What was Rudy's biggest failure on 9/11?
    Vote at TheRealRudy.org

    It would be so much easier, and less time consuming, to list his "successes" concerning that day. Even his supposed giving hope to the rest of the country was more harmful than anything else as it was almost entirely based in lies, and had to have had an extremely depressing effect on every true hero who heard about it.
  • I object to the framing of your question. He didn't fail us; rather he is guilty of criminal negligence before the fact and complicit in cover-up afterwards. What you important video fails to reveal is the fact that Rudy's office acted to destroy evidence of a crime scene by not securing and testing all the steel from collapsed buildings.

    Each steel beam has a number on it that allows forensic specialists to recreate the dynamics of the collapse. By sending off the steel to be recycled in China and Asia he prevented this from happening.

    Additionally, Dr. Steven Jones tested several samples that managed to be saved and found traces of thermite, an chemical agent used to cut massive steel columns. Since none of the Cities agencies appeared to have done similar testings it could be that Rudy effectively aided in the destruction of evidence that might have proved conclusively that explosives were used to bring the towers down. Video evidence clearly shows molten steel pouring from one building just prior to its collapse, which is what one would expect if thermite reactions had occurred.

    A referendum must be brought to NYC voters to give them the power to compel a new 9/11 Commission to examine the full record and evidence of cover-up. If it is found that Rudy is guilty for negligence or obstruction of justice then he should be punished to the full extent of the law and stripped of his knighthood which surely he doesn't deserve, even absent a guilty finding.

    For a broader expose of the 9/11 cover-up as seen through the eyes of the families please check out 9/11: Press for Truth which I helped produce. Demand full investigation by Congress, the City of New York and by duly constituted authorities overseas. And act now to remove your money from the banks the fund the war and the desecration of our Constitution carried out in the name of the war.
  • Ed Zoeller
    Rudy's dirty!! He's part of the axis of evil that destroyed the towers. The city spent all that money on a crisis control center, but he never set foot in it! He knew better, because he knew that building was scheduled for demolition that day. It was pre-wired with explosives just like the other two buildings being leased by his buddy, Larry Silverstein, and they were waiting for the third plane to hit it, but it got shot down over Pennsylvania, so they just "pulled it" anyway, at 5:00 p.m.
  • Bert Jones
    WITH CONTRITE APOLOGIZES FOR THE HORRENDOUS SPELLING ERRORS IN MY ORIGINAL POST!! -- If I had any extra money I would send it to support this effort. What anyone who is considering backing Giuliani needs to understand is that he is by far the most dangerous candidate running for president. This is true not only because of his almost total lack of a conscience, but also because he so strongly believes his own lies. One only has to remember his recent assertion, later reluctantly retracted, that he spent as much or more time at ground zero than did the heroic men and women who worked on the "pile" for so many days trying to find survivors after 9/11.
  • Bert Jones
    If I had any extra money I would send it to support this effort. What anyone who is considering backing Guliani needs to understand is that he is by far the most dangerous canadate running for president. This is true not only because of his almost total lack of a conscience, but also because he so strongly believes his own lies. One only has to remember his recent assersion, later reluctnetly retracted, that he spent as much or more time at ground zero than did the heroic men and women who worked on the "pile" for so many days trying to find survivors after 9/11.
  • timothy price
    Everyone should start our by seeing Loose Change, 2nd Edition, then 9/11 Mysteries, Demolitions, and then we would all have a better understanding on what the motives were, what the means were, and who did it. It was not
    done without the help of Dick Cheney and Rudy.
  • Abe friedman
    I would beleive half of what you say. If you did the same about Hilary,Obama and Edwards.Also Romney,Mcain and who ever else is running. But to just pick one person is strictley political. How about Obama being raised in a madrassa scool converting which means there is a fatwa on his head. Hllary the page is not long enough to list all her under handed stuff. John Edwards check hie cases and see how he screwed many clients. If you have a pure lily white candidate let me know. All you Monday morning quarterbacks think youa re smart.Who had ever seen such a tragedy. pretty good bullshit
  • Robert Beachy
    Hey, why don't you mention in the video the real reason RG placed the command center where he did. Isn't that where he met Judith Nathans for their extramarital trysts?
  • Diane
    All NYer's know about Rudy.
    It was his version of Bush's "Bring it on" to the terrorist.
    Follow the money!!!!!

    It was always Rudy's way or the highway.
    We would be getting another Bush, ruthless, although more intelligent, but another Emperor with no clothes.
  • timothy price
    According to logic and to the book, Crossing the Rubicon, Giuliani had to have been involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 "attack". He was in on it from the beginnning, along with Dick Cheney, Bush, Porter, Rice, Rumsfeld, Rove, and many others.
  • just remembering
    Only 1 day's worth of comments?? What happened to the rest? No archives? I thought I'd see if anyone responded to my recent comments and it's all already gone. I noticed that some victims and rescuers have put some considerable effort into some very well thought through comments. Shelf life 1 day??? What a waste.
  • Leslie Hunter
    Rudy failed on 9/11 because he is an arrogant asshold just like our president.
  • Joe
    His biggest problem is that he,"Rudy boy" is full of Shi*. Promise anything to win favor with the real perps.Remember these same war-mongers that killed their best (Gen.Rabin). Myer Kahane's mob in Brooklyn where they eat their young. $$ is beyond Religion (secular jews)the real ideals of the "modern jewish lobby" is a takeover of our AMERICAN Values and use us (dumb and numb Americans) as cannon fodder(USMC Viet-nam vet) unless you have MONEY!! The jewish power lobby(neo-cons) in NYC. THIS WAS A conspiracy SET-UP and we were all duped by Rudy-boy and neo-cons. Beware the white boys are singing the blues. We beat the British and we will do what we have to keep our values and rights that are guaranteed . This man should go to jail for letting down those who died and got sick by refusing to give them the help they BEGGED for
  • George
    His hiring of VonEssen as fire comissioner, whose inept leadership, as history proved, was the major factor in such an extremely high percentage of FDNY deaths on 9/11.
  • Terry Peterson
    bite my ass Rudy!!
  • terry
    I was in Montreal so I can't speak to the response of the first few days.

    I think the biggest failure is the complete lying about the air quality. I live 12 blocks directly north from ground zero and find myself concerned about the exposure to carcinogens and toxins.
  • Marianne Stanley
    He "failed us" for the very same reason the entire Congress and this Administration is failing us.........greed, lust for power, self-interest, apathy, "I'm fine; why worry about anything or anyone else?", ego, lack of character, especially integrity. We need people with vision, with heart, with the wisdom to know we all matter and are connected.
  • Jo Hyde
    911 was a shock for all of us, but the mayor of one of the largest cities in the world should have been able to pull himself together to rally all forces and neighboring forces together to help in the disaster. Touring the site for the TV cameras was not enought. Fireman and policeman, National Guard, etc. from all over the East Coast were willing to help ASAP. He let New York down.
  • First, thanks to Robert Greenwald.
    I believe the real damaging evidence against Rudy is yet to emerge. WTC 7 was intentionally demolished to destroy evidence relating to the 911 attacks and Rudy was involved. Giuliani also played a roll in the 7/07/05 London bombings. This gut would be worse than Bushm if that's possible.
  • pete
    Because he was part of the cabal that took out the towers.
  • Joan
    My brother is one of the "real" 9/11 heroes, he unselfishly volunteered for search and rescue that day. I remember coming home after the attacks to find him in his SWAT gear and him telling us he was going into the city (he is a small town cop from NJ but started his career in NY). Little did we know that those words would be the last breath he took as a "healthy non-smoking man", he now suffers from a rare blood cancer and other respiratory ailments (but he continues patrolling and keeping our town safe). Rudy Guliani, Christy Todd Whitman and their republican cronies mislead all people in the area by reporting that the air was safe to breathe. Just look at any media clips and you will see Ruby covering his face with a mask and Whitman never took a breath over at the site until well after the debris was settled. Rudy was just one of many "show-boaters" that day and all the days that follow. He should have stayed at home and worked on the mess that was his marriage.
  • Ed Pusch
    Rudy is not at all what people think he is. Rudy should go to work for Charmin and get rubbed and flushed.
  • Rudy is part of the coverup of our government's planning and execution of 9/11. He put the Command Center at the WTC complex so that the evidence could be destroyed during the crime.
  • weslen1
    To order the search for bodies to be halted, and to deliberately remove or destroy evidence and order the whole area plowed under to hide any evidence that may have been left so that it couldn't be analyzed at the World Trade Center after the attacks, is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard.
    Many years ago there was a plane, flight 401 that crashed in the everglades. No one was aware there was a problem. It turned out that due to a faulty switch, when the pilot left his seat, he inadvertently bumped the control and the auto-pilot was disengaged. On the co-pilot's side instruments still showed the plane at the proper altitude even as the plane was going down. Each and every piece of that plane, some no larger than a nickel, were gathered up and reassembled in a hanger and analyzed until they found the cause of that crash. This is what happens with every single plane crash in this country. Every single crime scene is meticulously searched for evidence. On 9/11/2001,all the evidence, 4 planes, many thousands of tons of evidence, thousands of bodies, and all the rest, were removed, ignored, covered up, destroyed, or plowed under. Rudy ordered the rescuers to quit the recovery and ordered the entire Trade Center Complex plowed over.
    Now he would have the unmitigated gall to call himself "One of them". Instead of running for president, he should be in jail, charged with obstruction of justice at the VERY LEAST.
  • Lois and Gerald Moss
    His responses to Chris Wallace were so totally inappropriate. . . Laughing? LAUGHING?!
  • Amber Marvin
    The only real failure was the lack of a backup site. It was believed that after the WTC attack in the late 1990's, security was increased enough to prevent another attack at the same location, but you must always have emergency backup locations for something as crucial as a command center.
  • JengoPop
    Rudy oh rudy. Who do you think will win the Republican nomination? Thompson, Giuliani, Romney, maybe Ron Paul? Vote today at www.pollicious.com
  • jamie parish
    lots of bad decisions,cost lives,under his leadership,besides,infidelity,estranged from children,etc.he should be more honest and forget about trying to run for president!!do all americans a favor and withdrawl from presidential bid
  • Susan Canna
    The clincher for me was to discover that the NYFD did not endorse Rudy's run for President. I've got to tell you that even as a Native New Yorker, I couldn't fathom why. Then I began to dig a little. What I discovered left me incredulous. Since then, I have given you-tube links, etc. to each of my friends so they can be fully informed. I wasn't that thrilled about him to begin with -- anyone who is proud to state that he said "Thank God Bush is President" when he heard we were attacked, is NOT someone I would EVER vote for. I did vote for the Village Idiot the first time around and I sure as hell didn't vote for him the second time. You just gotta know I won't be casting a vote for his minion in 08! Realizing the firefighters who were in the trenches of that horriffic day are in agreement with me, just seals it!
  • LUIGI
    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
  • rich
    f this ahole who is good friends with an indicted pedophile priest.
  • T. Sims
    Oppz wrong blog..
  • Annie
    I was at the WTC sight for nine months as volunteer for a minimum of 40 hours a week. It was an honor to be allowed to do so, and though I met the thousands of people I met and the hundreds of those I now consider family, I never met then Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
    I heard gossip that I had missed seeing Rudy serving turkey on Thanksgiving to the workers with photographers in tow. It must of been a short shift, like half an hour.

    The only time I witnessed him with my own eyes was at Ground Zero the Towers of Light ceremony (which as low ranking volunteers were only allowed to attend at the last minute due to the kindness of a Port Authority cop, who was outraged at our exclusion and got us in and the last minute...Oh wait, I did see him again, at the cutting of the last beam ceremony that took place the night before the sight prematurely closed. Again we were brought in at the last minute, this time due to the kindness of an FDNY Battalion Chief. After all Rudy was there (not in the pit mind you) and there was his safety to think about. Funny that, cause there seemed to be no great concern about the safety of the people, many who are now getting sick who were down there day after day (unlike Rudy) Oh, Im sorry. We were supplied dust masks, and hard hats the first day in, so if there was a saw dust attack we would be just fine.

    I'll tell you who I did see, fellow New Yorkers side, by side, of all political persuasion, race, religion, creed, age, gender, and sexual orientation, turning up day after day, bound together by the tragic events of 9/11. Some came to find their loved ones remains, and if they were one of the few who did find a son, a brother, a father, a daughter, a coworker and stayed on in hope to give some other grieving relative or friend a bit of comfort, a body to bury. Some came to find a bit redemption in a world that suddenly seemed hopeless ugly and mean. And we found it in the faces of good people who despite their various walks of life, walked all in the same direction. Some came to give back in gratitude for our friends and family who were able to get out of that hell in time, or were one of the thousands and thousands who were rescued by the selfless compassion and bravery of the uniformed services, and the everyday Joe's who went to work that sunny morning almost 6 years ago and found a heroism they didn't, know they possessed. We'll never know there names and they probably wont run for president, they just did the right thing. I saw long retired firemen in brown car harts limping up that ramp, smiling though their hearts were broken when they came into the tent to get warm, or grab something to eat, and laughed at our lame jokes as that and mediocre coffee food was all we could give them before they return to the pit and sift through 110 stories of ash and rubble for their beloved heroic children and the children of thousands others, most of which where never found. I saw policemen who's wives made them bring in homemade cakes, cause they needed to give in some way. I saw thousands and thousands of cards drawn with crayons from children all over the globe wishing hope and healing. I saw the despair in peoples eyes on the bad months when little would be found, and I saw a different despair on the 'good' months when more remains where found. I saw grieving, mothers, sisters and daughters, wiping down tables, bravely putting on 'the face', the we are New Yorkers, We are Americans and even though sometimes, you knew they wanted to break down, (as I imagine the majority of the thousand who were there did weeping in the porto toilets or on the way home when know one was looking. It was there, in that hellish yet holy place where the true meaning of dignity was revealed to us. I saw people who drove all the way up from New Orleans to give us gumbo, 'baby cake and mardi gras beads to feed our soul and spirit as we left the perimeter after finishing our shifts. I saw a homeless man donate his cup full of coins to the Salvation Army so that some one else could eat. I saw survivors rescue workers and families whom also had their lives shattered in the Oklahoma City bombing who traveled across the country like countless other fellow Americans to offer their help and support in anyway they could. I saw the growing lack hope seep in as the 'finishing date' grew closer, knowing soon that the mission was over, whether it was or not that site was gonna close and many would never be remains would never be recovered, In the most terrible tragedy, I saw humanity at its best. I did not discuss politics down there,as it had no place down there. I talked to a thousand people, many whose names I'll never know, but whose faces I'll remember forever because they were, there and as far as I know, none of them have plans to run for the office of President of the United States. I didn't speak to Rudy Giuliani because I never saw him there. Every time he uses the terrible events of September 11th for political gain (never mind the finical gain he has all ready garnered, he insults not only the memory of those lost on that awful day, but the intelligence of those who were actually there for other reasons than a photo op..
  • T. Sims
    NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?... Exactly...
    You're Not American .. Constitutional Defenses? You Have No right to anything except passage back to your Country of origin. Cities that legislate local laws that make it also a violation of local law to disobey federal law is Perfectly Constitutional.! A local municipality should not have to be relegated to the role of a Security Guard- observe and report?
    Should they also simply observe and report other federal law violations to federal law enforcement and then wait for the Cavalry to arrive? Doesnt Our entire legal & justice system mimmick and parralell our Federal Model?? Isn't even every boy scout, every law enforcement, every public official, every military and governmental employee, and public official sworn to protect and Defend against any enemy foreign and domestic?
    Should the small town Mayor simply observe and report that Bin Laden is strolling down Rodeo Drive shopping ?
    Have we all lost our collective Minds?
    No where to run to baby... No where to Hide.. Thats exactly what every ILLEGAL alien should feel.. Yesss!!.Fear of Deportation.. GIVE ME MORE FEAR.!!
    TURN UP the FEAR..!!! Pump it Upp...!!
    The only thing they should take comfort in..is knowing That the Entire Family will all go back where they came from...TOGETHER...
    No Family Separations.. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.!!
    Send the ILLEGITAMATE Kids Back also.!!
    .It is Is ABSURD that a Pregnant Alien's child is automatically a U.S. Citizen just because the mom crossed the Rio Grande squatted, spread her ass and dropped a human bomb on the USA. Is it American Shitt if she deficates?? Is it American Sewage now ??? American sewers must now carry her shitt too?? Kiss My ASS!!
    YES we need COMPREHENSIVE REFORM!!! REPEAL Foreign to U.S. BIRTHRIGHTS.. That's where I would Start.
    Your Grand MA was Illeagl ?? So are You..!!
    DEPORT THE ENTIRE FAMILY...RETRO ACTIVE to whenever the Family's Illegal Existance began...
    Leave NO FAMILY MEMBERS BEHIND..!!! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU ..Go back to the END of THE LINE ..apply legally for Citizenship.
    Forfeit all that you illegally obtained.
    That is one key critical way to stop or even slow Illegal immigration.
    Stay home wannabe immigrants. Fight and Die for democracy in your own country as Americans did.
    Overthrow your Dictators.. Free your selves..!!
    You just might begin to appreciate the Value of American Citizenship after wanna be Illegals start to pay the ultimate price for their own freedom. Pay with their own sweat, flesh, blood, teeth, nails and tears
    WHAT PRICE FREEDOM?
    To empose a fine of $5,000 on a foreign Invader?This is an affront to the memory and soul of every American Veteran that ever fought and Died to protect America.. Their Life was only worth $5000 a piece?
    American War Dead will now have a $5000 Value per
    corps.?
    Thats the Price of American Freedom? The Value of an American Life?
    Some dilluded Fools wish to make it possible for An Illegal Immigrant Invader to enjoy all that your father, husband, son, brother,sister died for.. All for only $5000.00 USD ..On Sale until November 2008. Appauling...!~
    When are we all going to awaken from this bleeding hearts COMA on Illegal Alien Compassion?
    Did our War Dead recieve Mercy or Compassion??
    Its cold,its harsh, its real. But, they have no right to be here. Not 1...
  • Benihana
    Poor little tomcat you really need to do some better research. 9-11 Truthers are certainly not nut cases, I guess you can debate structural failures due to fire instead of Thermite with Steven Jones Right? I am afraid you can't handle the truth, Just hide under your bloody bed. Good Night and Good Luck.
  • cheryl
    rudy guiliani knew before 9/11 happened, that 9/11 was going to happen just like george bush knew. they needed "another pearl harbor" to happen in order to carry out their plans to control america, the middle east and the american people. they needed a massive number of casualties in order to throw fear into the american people to carry out their evil plan.
  • Joe Centrone
    The greatest deception the Devil ever achieved was to convince the world that he did not exist. Rudy is that Devil. Rudy is that Devil.
  • tomcat27834
    ARROGANCE...Rudy is guilt of being arrogant. That in itself, is not a crime - However, Rudy had the same dangerous traits that GWBush has and our country CANNOT afford RUDY as President. Rudy is a product of "whats in it for me" mentality that is dangerous and self-serving. This country cannot afford to stroke RUDY'S ego while undermining the values that we hold dear. RUDY is not presidential - PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT. In closing, the few "nutcases" that continue to believe 9/11 was an "inside" job; grasp reality! FOCUS ON RUDY...HE IS DANGEROUS AND DOES NOT DESSERVE TO HOLD WITH HIGHEST OFFICE OF OUR LAND.
  • greg gelburd
    he was already on a downhill slide before 9/11, he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and had announced his divorce at a news conference, his wife hearing of it for the first time on TV. No one thought good about this man before 9/11. he's a sad case
  • Susie Murphy
    It appears as though the biggest thing he did on 9-11 was photo ops for press releases. Some of things beforehand such as setting up the command post in a previously targeted building and having no back-up cost lives and looked almost as if he knew about the event beforehand.
  • George Youngkins
    Rudy was just too damned busy being "Rudy". He has been busy running for higher office.
  • Don Kelley
    Rudy knew about the attack and made sure he was not there when the planes hit. In attition to his bunker being in the tower, there were other vital offices in building #7, the building that had no damage when the towers fell. Five hours later this building crumbled and everyone inside was told to leave because the building was going to fall. Right on que, #7 was DESTROYED BY CONTROLLED IMPLOSION ! Why ? The district attorney, FBI, CIA and other government offices with important vital information were in #7. The DA had secret indictments on dozens of Wall St. bigwigs for insider trading, and all the evidence was destroyed. The towers went down the same way, by CONTROLLED IMPLOSION! Eye witnesses saw and heard many small explosions as they went down. Check out www.loosechange911.com and see for yourself all of the other atrocities that Rudy had a hand in. I wish Rudy was where he was supposed to be when the plains hit, on the 26th floor. Think he had a heads-up ?
  • Edward Carey
    Rudy Giuliani put the command center at 7 world trade because it was a convenient location for him. He disreguarded all advice given to him to the contrary. Instead of admitting his failures, he is trying to benefit from his mistakes & so far he has made millions of dollars from this tregedy. It is partially due to his neglagence & shortsightedness that so many firefighters & police & emergency workers died. He should not profit from his mistakes & he should stand up & admit to his errors in judgement.
  • Idoly Rodriguez
    as far as I can judge he failed on evry one of the pointed failures....God help him and us
  • Peter Mercure
    Rudy only did the same "Bone Head" things that our President and Goverment is doing everyday. NOT LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE OR THOSE IN THE KNOW !!! The governing body of America is destroying America with a "New World Order" agenda. WAKEUP FELLOW AMERICANS.
  • Renee Melchiorre
    He made the final decision to locate the emergency command center in the World Trade Center several years after the initial bombing in 1993. That decision alone cost hundreds of lives.
  • Ryan
    RON PAUL IN 2008. He is our only chance at ditching the NWO dynasty that is the invisable hand. We would win less freedoms and more power to the hands of puppet masters otherwise. Connect the dots, find the relations, 9/11 WAS coordinated. Rudy is the successor for the major plan. And they are following the tactics of the Nazis in creating threat and fear in this country and drive to grow power globally. They do want a police state and control. Financial enslavement to a major system is the new world order. Government control is in the hands of the world banking elite.
  • C. G. Dedrick
    Rudy lies good enough to become president.
    Criminal negligence ?
    Yep ! Rudy is something else !
  • liveoak
    It's pretty obvious that he was part of the whole scam, now isn't it?

    Check out the book _Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)_ if you want to understand how hypocrites "work"--they can end up being the last ones fooled by what they claim.
  • Jim
    The OEM was located in WTC 7 because it was already planned that this bldg would come down just as WTC 1 & 2 were planned to come down -- before 9/11. 9/11 was an inside job and Guliani was part of it. He is recorded as saying the buildings will collapse before they actually did collapse.
  • Claryce Lauer
    Every negative you point out is true, very serious and should be brought to public attention especially on consrevative websites. Is Silverstein still collecting his1.5 million annualy? C. Lauer
  • Vic Bailey
    Rudy is a blatant liar and a coward and a money hungry leach, and I don't believe we need another slimeball like him in office, we need to clean up Washington, not bury it in this kind of slime.
  • chris graham
    because, like so many corporate ruining dogs, he has no feelings for others. his children don't like him, his wives divorce him, his lies ensnare home and he sits oblivious to all but his own smirking, masturbatory self-absorbed greed. he would truly watch new york and all who dwell therein burn to the ground for a buck.
  • kevin callaghan
    All Rudy did on 9/11 was show up. As a professional fire officer with 22 years experience with the FDNY, I can tell tou Rudy was not in charge. When politicians show up at the scene of an emergency they are looked at as civilians who are in the way by the professionals.
  • Leigh Cherrington
    I am a native New Yorker who lived in NY under both Guiliani's terms. This guy is a nightmare who will make his rule in NY look like a walk in the park if he becomes President! Giuliani was the closest the city got to a Fascist leader, and the best thing that ever happened to him was 9/11. Without that, he would have ended his term quietly, and with the deaths of Amadou Diallo and Patrick Dorismund hanging over his head. He divided our city and began it's Disnneyfication. He was a terrible mayor for real New Yorkers and will make an even worse president!!
  • Mary Bechand
    He didn't listen to the experts working for him when deciding where to house the emergency command center. When it was destroyed he lied and continues to lie about the reason. Without 9/11 he's just another ambitious politician that prays people don't seek out the real facts. Sound familiar? He's nothing but a clone of George Bush and we've all come to understand how dangerous that can be to our democracy. Mary Bechand
  • Robert Lederman
    If you want to know the real nature of Rudy Giuliani check out these
    links. I won five Federal lawsuits about him having me falsely
    arrested for exposing his links to extreme racists, former Nazis and
    Nazi sympathizers. Every political "idea" he has came from one source,
    The Manhattan Institute, founded by CIA director William Casey and
    funded by David Rockefeller. Giuliani's real link to 9/11 can only be
    understood in light of his lifelong connection to the WTC creator,
    David Rockefeller. The Manhattan Institute was also the main group
    funding so-called Neoconservatism. GW Bush has publicly acknowledged
    the Manhattan Institute as being second only to the Bible as a source
    of his "ideas."

    NY Times June 12, 2000
    Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers
    "Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been
    shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan
    Institute."

    From the Manhattan Institute Website:
    Books That Influenced Gov. George W. Bush
    The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties'
    Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet
    (the main spokespoerson for MI)
    Mr. Magnet's book attracted the
    attention of George W. Bush, then in his first race of the
    Governorship of Texas. Referring to this book, Gov. Bush
    has said, other than the Bible, that it was the most
    important book he had read..."

    "Currently housed...on the second floor of a building near Grand
    Central Terminal, the institute was founded as a free-market education
    and research organization by William Casey, who then went off to head
    the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration....Mr.
    Giuliani and his campaign staff began meeting with institute members
    in 1992, and since that time have absorbed many of its ideas,
    particularly on such issues as the city's tax structure, economic
    development, education policy, policing and quality of life."
    -NY Times 5/12/97

    For details read:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/m...
    Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics: The Ugly Truth Behind
    "Quality of Life"

    also see:
    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=artistpres
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCStreetArtists/
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/
    http://www.bluecollarpolitics.com/lederman/
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/m...
  • Lee Silvan
    Sorry! I don't agree!

    Our Federal Government and its STUPID foreign policies failed us; alienating most of our allies, and catering to the oil cartels, as well as selling out to our greedy and immoral military-industrial megalomaniacs!
  • Brenda Reiss
    With Rudy running ver strongly for president it is imperitive that this message get out. Those of us who live in or near New York City know all too well of his failures. It's really scary how things can be spun to give them a good slant. "Everybody's mayor" has to be shown for what he is.
  • Benihana
    According to Christopher Bollyn, Rudy is a good friend of Michael Chertoff who allowed scores of suspected Israeli terrorists and spies to quietly return to Israel. In several cases, Israeli suspects working for phoney moving companies, such as Urban Moving Systems from Weehawken, N.J., were caught driving moving vans which tested positive for explosives. On September 14, 2001, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, which was found to be a Mossad front company, fled to Israel after FBI agents requested a second interview.

    One group of 5 Israelis was seen on the roof of Urban Moving Systems videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. These Israeli agents were returned to Israel on visa violations.

    These Israeli suspects, and others, who had apparently transported explosives in the New York area, were allowed to return to Israel without being properly interrogated or their presence and activities in the United States having been vigorously investigated.
  • An Ex Pat
    He seems to have failed to have given any thought to the possibility of a second and larger attack in NYC and was thus clueless and forced to into being a spectator. Given the quality of the thought he seems capable of, however, this have worked to our advantage.
  • Robin Randolf
    I tried to cast a vote on "What was Rudy's biggest failure on 9/11?" but got an error message saying that Javascript must be enabled, but Javascript is definitely enabled in my browser. I think you might be missing out on a lot of votes because of this.

    My browser version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

    Regards,

    Robin
  • Larry Grehan
    Another lying republican, They are self centered bastadrs the world over. Don't ever vote republican. and we'll get areal domocracy soneday.
  • roberta thornburg
    I really don't know why he failed. But i do know that the media has built him up to be a hero. Now in my way of thinking and mayor in office at that time would have would have got out there and helped that is there job. So don't call them hero's and that goes for bush also.""ITS THere JOB ""
  • I think he is just like all of the criminals in the Bush administratio n and does not care about any human being except for himself. He is a very selfish pro Bush fascist nazi criminal and definitely NOT presidential material. In summary ... Rudy is a fool
  • Benihana
    Anyone still in denial about Rudy and the Neocon agenda cannot admit the mistakes our country has made by pseudo-electing the warmongers hell bent on profiting from the senseless killing of innocent men women and children. Love your country by asking the hard questions. The Dems are just the decoy party and a little more humane, but they are manipulated the same way, by the Military Industrial Media Complex. Read the American Free Press, follow the money trail all the way to the European Central Banking Cartel established by the Rothschilds over two hundred years ago. The bankers always benefit by creating conflict and financing both sides ie Napoleon/The British, the arms race with the "communists" which was originally developed in Vienna when Marx was financed in the 1800's by the Rothschilds. History tends to repeat itself because it is planned that way. Rudy is just more of the same old story.
  • Here is the entire basis for Giuliani's NYC policies and what he will do as US President:

    Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics: The Ugly Truth Behind "Quality of Life"
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/m...

    Read the article at this site if you want to know the source of Giuliani's policy ideas
  • Chris Brockway
    Guiliani is just one of the several illuminati criminals complicit in the 911 tragedy. These criminals have no empathy for anyone and care only about lining their pockets and political power. They WILL be brought to justice. Of all the nerve, this coward is actually running for president. What a country...what a world!
  • Don
    "Really man, not worth my time..."

    That's the 1st thing you got right. Your bias is obvious. You only look for the facts that support your beliefs, much like an evolutionist. I have no doubt the media decides who they will try to "kill", but-but-but- it's almost always a conservative they try to "kill", while overlooking the liberals.

    When's the last time you saw Brian Williams to a special on William Jefferson-the thief of Washington. You didn't-and won't

    So yes, you are correct, you are waisting your time.
  • Charles Saunders
    Giuliani comes from a MOB family. When he supposedly "went after the MOB",he went after "RIVAL" families not his own. He is another mobster family like Geraldine Ferraro's family that the Jew-controlled press never talk about....in the controlled PRESS there is nothing but SILENCE!! Also, 9/11 was an "in-side" job and RUDDY along with BUSH was on the "IN-SIDE"!!!
  • Robert Lederman
    If you want to know the real nature of Rudy Giuliani check out these links. I won five Federal lawsuits about him having me falsely arrested for exposing his links to extreme racists, former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. Every political "idea" he has came from one source, The Manhattan Institute, founded by CIA director William Casey and funded by David Rockefeller. Giuliani's real link to 9/11 can only be understood in light of his lifelong connection to the WTC creator, David Rockefeller.

    See:
    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=artistpres
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCStreetArtists/
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/
    http://www.bluecollarpolitics.com/lederman/
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arrest-Giuliani/m...
  • Stephen G. Akers
    The fact that so many people developed lung ailments from the debris with an erroneous statement from the EPA is another failure of the Mayor.
  • Terry Gartner
    So let's see, way after the fact this all comes up! And why is he different from ANY other elected official that is in office. Let's talk about the Fed. Gov't failures prior to 9-11. Let's talk about Pres. Bush nnot paying attention to the warning signs of an emminent attack on our shores and did nothing! What Rudy did, could not have changed what happened that morning, nor would the lives of those fire fighters been saved once they entered those building and the way they reacted had nothing to do with WHERE the command post was.... Spread the wealth and let's talk about WHY our Gov't is now allowing trucks from Mexico to enter our country unchecked and not monitored!!!!! The bottom line is that there are soo many things going on in the country today that someone, or anyone, in our gov't could stop and they don't!
  • Because 9/11 was an inside job and he knew about it. I cant believe time and effort is being wasted on stuff like this when the real truth could not be more obvious. Buildings dont collapse from fire.
  • Marina Callaghan
    Rudy Guiliani failed us before 9/11 when he authorized the decision to put our central commmand center on the 23 rd floor of the WTC, a previous terror target. This decision I believe helped to add to the chaos of the moment. The FDNY and NYPD, not all of whom were familiar with the site, did not know who was in charge, many of them not even knowing which tower they were in.
    Rudy was a cheerleader that day. Television captured that well, but anyone could have been a cheerleader. We needed a leader, among leaders but mostly we needed advance tactical leadership. We had true leadership in the FDNY brass, poor buggers...most of whom lost their lives. As the wife of a NYC Fire Lieutenant, who served his department, city and country that day I know who the heroes were...they were running in, when Rudy was runnning out trying to cover the biggest blunder of all time.
  • Debbie
    Another example of how the Republicans work. They are primarily aristratic and egotistical. They have power and can do whatever they want, and forget that their purpose is to serve the people that elected them. There is a recurring theme in their approach; big corporations=big money, forget the people, and when all else fails deny deny - about things that really matter and not a sex scandel where any human being lies in front of their wife!
  • Astraea
    Well! He is obviously completely corrupt.

    He makes a fool of himself whenever RON PAUL
    is around. Ron Paulis patently honestly and upfront and intelligent and this man is so obviously lying ALL the time! It is extroadinary. Anyone who cannot see this is very very dull.
  • leo livingston
    He was just totally into being on TV and riding the greatiest wave ever of publicisty so he could move up the ladder of power...fuck Rudy the jerk.
    Now,would you like to hear what I really think about him?
  • Walisha M. Blackmore
    This video has exposed another instance where politics and catering to cronies have cost the needless death and suffering of innocent people. It is time for a change!!!!
  • Kristi Anderson
    Thank you for bringing this story to the public! It needs to be told. We need to understand who this person is, who Rudy Giuliani truly is and what actions he took on 9/11/2001, and the time leading up to the tragic losses.
  • Mike
    Cronyism strikes again!!!
  • Chris Magda
    Hey, he was informed before the fact that the Trade Towers were going to be attacked, I think that sums it up, i.e., he was complicité from the get-go.
  • Kim Slack
    Its dispicable that someone would use their background at 9/11 to promote themselves.
  • linda lipscomb
    Is there any connection between where the command center was located and the possibility that the attack on the twin towers was an inside job?
  • legend-in-your-own-mind
    Rudy? Bush reincarnated.
  • Tom Scally
    The reason why so many died is that they knew after the first attack at the WTC in 1993 that communication was a problem ,the Fire Commissioner Von Essen along with Guiliani accepted a NO BID contract from Motorola for the new radio that the firefighters use everyday .I feel that on the the job testing of these radios where real people could suffer because of the inadequate radios would not function properly was a real sin.

    After knowing from the field that there were problems with communicating with each other they should have left the radios in service for Special Operations command because they could function well under certain condition i.e. the WTC and Subways were terrorist targeted. Also Guiliani and Von Essen had tremendous egos that kept others from saying anything in fear of reprisal. I.E look at former NYPD William Bratton, He was replaced by a real idiot and criminal Bernard Kerik as Police Commissioner.
  • Cap Turtle
    Cosmic justice for Larry Craig out here in Idaho, he's been in charge of selling the logging rights for the OMG clearcuts in Idaho for 30 years. I don't care if he's gay or not, he let Idaho get raped by Eastern corporations for decades. Now...back to GHOULIANI, we need a president in 2008 who will restore civil rights, enforce the laws and actually have respect for the laws, unlike the neo-con scum that are trying to take over the world. Arrest the neo-cons on charges of treason, no bail, (they are a flight risk), bring the troops home, seal the border, rebuild New Orleans, (for real this time), close Gitmo and introduce a new specifically neutral foreign policy, like the kind that exists in Switzerland and Sweden, outlaw duel citizenship and stop foreign aid. Guiliani won't do any of these things and should be in prison, not running for the highest position in the land. We cannot undo the damage done by neo-cons but we can fix the country in the aftermath.
  • PEGGY
    THERE ARE TOO MANY REASONS FOR HIS FAILURE TO MENTION. HE IS AL INTO HIMSELF.
  • James Matson
    The reason there is 60% of respondents who thinks #6 is why Rudy failed is because that is what you are presenting in your video. That is a valid statement, however, the main reason that more Firefighters died was because even after Rudy actually set up a command center, eventually in my Uncle's office, he 'SEPERATED' the Police and Fire Command centers, which was against his own EMP,(Emergency Mngmt Plan). As a Police Helicopter watched the first Tower go down, the pilot sent out a call to get all people out of the second tower before it's emminent collapse. If the Fire Chief had been next to the Police Chief, then many Firefighters lives' would have been spared.
  • Marianne Moran
    Rudy's photo ops at the 9/11 scene were orchestrated to make him look like a hero in control of the situation. But his failures behind the scene were criminal. He knew New York was a target yet he denied the fire fighters the inexpensive radios that would have allowed them to save themselves and others. So stupid, so many lives lost to save a few bucks in his budget. He is not Presidential material, unless you want another idiot in the White House.
  • Aaron
    You guys are too negative. I'm still undecided about the Republican primary, but negative and nasty campaigning makes me more sympathetic to the people who are subjected to it. People who take a stand, people who stick their necks out and fight for what they believe in, they're the ones that get shot down by the pessimists.

    I think you guys need to lay off the negative attacks and tell us what you believe in. Who funds you? Your other websites just make you seem like partisan shills.

    Have a great day.
  • Dean Scarpinato
    9-11 was an inside job and Rudy is in it up to his eyeballs. Silverstein is a murderous, covetous prick and the Neo-Cons may have thought that 9-11 was the New Pearl Harbor to launch American Imperialism, but I believe we have seen the start of the Fall of Rome. Rudy is a traitor!
  • Anonymous
    he was to busy making himself looking good
  • farang
    Rudy knew WTC 7 and the Towers were coming down.

    HOW?
  • Dad
    Daniel, This is an interesting sight. It seems that the truth can come out if you stay away from Fox and Bush. ( the fox in the bush)
  • Clint Fuller
    No Rudy scrubbed the crime scene!! All the steel was shipped overseas before the cause of of how the towers and Building 7 collasped.
  • Liz
    He was the biggest failure on 9/11. All he cared about was retrieving the bullion below the towers.
  • Maybe you have deliberately chosen not appear crazy to a wider audience by talking about the inside job of 9/11, but I miss one option in the vote:
    Rudy was one of the key players in the inside job, and that was his biggest 'failure' on that day.
  • Protagonist
    this is really sick!
    an entire website to just kill one man's reputation.
    you make it sound like he is fully responsible for 09/11.
    this just demonstrates show sick american society has become.
  • Greg Markowski
    Same reason Bush kept reading a goat story to 2nd graders instead of assuming his role as the Commander In Chief when the nation is under attack. So what if all the Air Force fighters stay on the ground for 45 minutes with 4 hijacked airliners flying around--and into.
  • michael h dittamore
    What do expect from a self serving,lying, egotistical,vain,corrupt,adulterer? sniff sniff, hmmmm smells like a repugnut to me, weellll I'll be damned it is a repugnut.
  • Linda
    I think there were no mistakes. I think they wanted the offices gone..........it held all kinds of gov't offices with classified info, not a coincidence. There had been previous attempts on the towers DUH!

    The biggest most apalling thing to me was the cleanup. Sending the "evidence" overseas for disposal was just heinous. Rudy is just plain evil, Just ask the rescue workers!!
  • Kenneth Huey
    Why is there no mention of the fact that Rudy insisted on locating the command center close to City Hall because he was using it as a love nest for getting together with his mistress??
    http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,7...
  • Paul Schultz
    Why shouldn't Rudy use his deer-in-the-headlights performance as a reference. Bush didn't leave his chair when told the country was under attack (twice) then beat it to Barksdale AFB to further do nothing; and it got him second term.
    Meanwhile,in debates all the '08 candidates have to answer foreign policy questions like tough war-mongers instead of intelligent diplomats. It all gets dumbed-down to the lowest common denominator.
  • m
    Poisoning thousands of rescue and recovery workers, residents, and employees in NYC.
    Letting cronies, Bechtel, Bovis...bypass federally mandated worker safety guidelines and environmental protection laws.
    Allowing a voluntary cleanup in affected areas. Wanting to cap the monetary reimbursement to those suing for damages inflicted by 9/11.

    NYFD and others were true Ground Heroes
    Rudy G. was a Ground Nero or Zero.
  • W. M. Simms
    The thing that real burns me is how Rudi Guliani has sort of worn this whole travesty as a "badge of courage" for basically being an observer/pedestrian on 9/11. I don't know which video I viewed it in but it was after the towers had collapsed and the Firemen and Policemen and Volunteers were searching for survivors and all you could hear was this incessant throng of beep-like noises(quieter than a car horn, but much louder than a cellphone)...and do you know what that was? Every Firemen's rescue beacon going off so they could be found!!! It was the most eery, truly tragic, and yes ultimately the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. For Mr."Clean Living Act" Guliani to sit there and profess innocence and not Stand Up like a man is basically all any potential voter needs to know about "Slick Rudi". Apparently he leads his life by the credo: 'Do as I as say. Not as I do.' I don't know how he can look himself in the mirror on a daily basis to be honest with you. May I also say If Rudi is leading the race for the GOP then The next President Is a Woman a.k.a It takes a Village. Thanx for your time. I've been saying this for close to 5 years or so now and I'm just glad that someone has developed the "stones" to refute Rudi's "Legacy". Next let's get this present administration and all their "retirees" and "HANG 'EM HIGH!"
  • RCHamm
    Rudy did not fail New York or the United States of American on and after 9/11. He has a lot of experience and competence that has served this country well.
  • Sitting-Bull
    who believed the official lies for mere six years...
  • Joann
    Can't stand the thought of looking at Giuliani's ugly face for 4 yrs., if ( God Forbid ) he wins !!I don't have any respect for the man ... he tried to get Benard kerik ( who has mafia ties )in office as director of Homeland security and stupid Bush was about to do it until someone brought it to his attention . His legal office is also handling the NAFTA superhighway . This man is NOT qualified to be the leader of America . The fire fighters are against him (what does that tell you ? )He screwed up 9/11 ... had faulty radios for the fire fighters . Had the emergency command center located in # 1 terror target !! A person would have to be nuts to vote for this piece of crap !! ... Joann
  • Chris
    I want all of you to do something very simple: take the information you are being presented with, and lay that next to what actually happened, then ask yourself: Do I believe the rhetoric? Or do I believe my own eyes and my own intuition?
    The rhetoric, all the news, all the "official" statements, and everything that comes from the White House or CNN is crafted by highly skilled professionals who are also selling you products that contribute to the ring around your middle. I know, I am one of those professionals.
    But similar to the gentlemen who were part of the Manhattan Project, I am ashamed of what I have done, what I have helped to shape, and how my actions have influenced the state of our country.
    All you have to do is follow the money. It's not about Freedom, it's not about rights, or any other idealistic notion that has been part of the slipshod sheep's clothing the Bush administration has been wearing. It's about the money. Fat cats want to stay fat. If you were one of them, and you held in your middle-class hand the strings that control nations, would you choose any differently? Search your soul.
    Read Lee Iacocca's excerpt.

    And then use the brain and the heart and the intuition you were given, and you'll come to the correct conclusion; you'll understand the changes that need to be made, and I hope will all of my being that you take action to make them.
  • lugnut
    Here is another thing i think is not a failure, but worse. This is my opinion. rudy knew silverstein. rudy insisted on the command center be in silverstein's building 7= good for silverstein and rudy.

    silverstein would have had to pay maybe 100s of million dollars to get rid of the ASBESTUS? in wtc 1&2.

    A "new pearl horbor is needed. Rudy knowing silverstein and neo-cons knowing them both, sees a way out= silverstein purchasing terror insurance, shortly before terror attack= new pearl horbor= end of asbestus problem= money in both their pockets= rudy running for president as a "9-11 hero"= everything good for silverstein rudy and the neo-cons march to irag.

    As for building 7 being the command center= allowing wtc 1&2 to be detroyed.
  • Jim Brillon
    Thank you for getting this information out there! Mr. Giuliani is a fraud...a fraud who's running for President! We don't need anymore of those!
  • ronald m. cole
    he didn't know what his,dumb a--,was doing just like bush,brownie, & the rest of the self serving idiots!
  • Kathryn McLaughlin
    One of the big failures you didn't mention, was the ignorance and lack of coordination of 911 emergency phone operators with what was going on at the scene of the World Trade Center on 9/11. They were giving bad information and advice to people stuck in the towers, because they really didn't know anything, which is pretty ridiculous. (I read the 911 Report.) Communication overall was very poor, the uncoordinated and ineffective radio communication systems have already been mentioned. Hopefully, that situation is better now, but how much safer is New York, really? Or, is it? The bottom line is, does Giuliani deserve the Presidency on the basis of his 'leadership' during the 9/11 disaster? NO, he does NOT!
  • Lydia Selwood
    A Bush Clone, with a TWIST ... Do we really want or need 4 more years of twisted insanity! God Forbid!
  • rose olexa
    Didnt notice the peculuar manner in which the towers and building 7 were obliterated.
  • Pam Waters
    How about the clip where Rudy blames the US troops for not preventing looting at an arms depo in Iraq?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSQT1FSu8A
  • George Baez
    Because he is a politician, and thus a boob and a liar, duh...
  • Sitting-Bull
    The situation is not that clear.
    First, the WTC93 attack was conducted under the overview of the FBI. Google Emad Salem. Giuliani never brought this terror incident up in his whole career, so I have to assume that he knew that it was false flag terrorism. www.911blogger.com

    The WTC7 command center was never used on that morning, why not? Even before the WTC south tower crumbles.

    link at cooperativeresearch.org
    and following entries

    Instead they had installed luckily a command center on a pier, because of a drill called "TRIPOD3" which should take place on Sep. 12nd.
    (FEMA arrived Monday night)

    They had warnings that the implosions will happen, that is totally unexplainable, and the engineer who told him that is unknown to this day- that is totally bogus.
    link at cooperativeresearch.org

    So the only explanation for me is: Giuliani knew all along what was gonna happen. and BTW: Hauer also, as he was on Dan Rather that morning to serve us the 100% "right" official explanation.
    ilnk at winterpatriot.blogspot.com
  • T.Sims
    Wake up America..!

    Cheney Convinced GW Bush to Ignore the 911 warning signs,and intelligence, thereby willfully aiding and abetting terrorists. Why? Because if the attacks succeeded..which they did; Cheney's Life Long Quest to elevate the White House above the Law and above all scrutiny could then be realized by virtue of it being necessary to "Protect" us from Terrorists. i.e under the Deceptive Disguise of Giving the White House total autonomy; National Security would be enhanced. ergo. all those lost in the 9/11 attacks were mere sacrificial lambs. Intentionally Slain so that Cheney and Bush could then frighten us all into blindly trusting and allowing the administration full autonomy to wiretap, detain, torture, or whatever they felt best for our safety.

    Part 2 of Cheney's win-win sales pitch: George Jr.could finish what his Father left undone in 1991. The Toppling of Sadam..
    Part 3:Who gets the fattest reconstruction contracts after the War? Cheney-Haliburton. More WIN-WIN? Part 4: The Bush Family Oil Interests?.. wow..they must be sooo 'upset' about current oil prices... ha ha ha ...
    Well I suppose it is "Tenent-able". After all, it was supposed to be a "slam dunk"... and when the dust settles there would be some nice reconstruction perks

    I truly believe that even They (Cheney-Bush) now recognize the war was a bigg Mistake as no one could have forseen the insurgencies' dogged determination and the New Iraqui governments inability to stabilize. And My God... What Irony.. now that the bigg mistake, the Grand Deception has started.., I deeply regret but am forced to agree; the only solution is now to stay the course..

    Lets all atleast insist that they both (Bush-Cheney) watch it play out from PRISON..!! As they are the most haneous murderers in the history of the World.

    The Ultimate Irony comes apparent, as These Two Fanatical National Security Zealots will Tragicly be known and remembered in History as the most Prodiguous Traitors of all time. Having perpetrated the greatest acts of Treason against America ever..! Allowing Americans to die, in order to illustrate and justify the Cheney dillusional belief in a need for an all powerful President. Rationale for the immediate need and the implementation of 'Cheneyism' and the stripping away of our rights; so the President could more freely "protect us"..Sounds good, but; who will protect us all from you Dick? The Decider??

    This is precisely why we need checks and balances, to protect us from out of control Presidents and Vice Presidents who ignore the American Public, and force their own agendas upon us all. And we deserve it, if we ever grant the white house total autonomy as Cheney has championed his entire political life.
    Because in so doing, we create the greatest Threat to National Security that can exist... The White House itself.

    [Written b4 Giulani declared his candidacy]
  • T. Sims
    President Guiliani?? God Im Gonna Hurl up my dinner...

    He is No more Americas Mayor than the Dallas Cowboys are Americas team...

    I love how he had to remove his own family from his debate answer on Family Values and never even answered the question.. Reminded me of the Beauty contestant that also recently lost her hearing comprehension and the ability to construct even basic sentences or the ability to recall the question.
    Very Presidential isn't he? NOT..!!
  • Danielle In Indiana
    Where to start?

    Placing the Command center in the World Trade Center.

    Not upgrading the communications systems for ALL first responders.

    Doing photo-ops while people died.

    Using honest to God Heroes as stepping stones for his political career.

    Profiteering from the Al-Queda attacks.

    Neglecting his responsibilities on the 9/11 commission.

    I could go on & on, but I'm begining to feel kinda sick to my stomach.
  • Arthur Carter
    Amazing! What lies. What self-delusion!
  • Margaret Nolan
    Prior to the attack on the World Trade Center, Rudy refused to listen to those who warned him about the inadequate radios for firefighters, and thus hundreds died, unaware that they were being trapped. Rudy obviously had no use for the expert advice given to him about locating the city's Emergency Command Center, in spite of the fact that the World Trade Center had suffered a previous attack, and the terrorists had vowed to attack again. His inexperience and deliberate incompetence make him totally unsuitable for the office of President.
  • Dr. Gregory Wilkin
    The failure occurred far earlier than 9/11 and continues long after. His malfeasance (cronyism and corruption) should be punishable by law and his non-feasance (not providing adequate equipment and an optimal communication center) should be punishable by life-long political banishment from elected office. His lying about it is between him and God.
  • Keeley MacKenzie
    He did everything wrong (and today he is lying about it!) before, during, and after 9/11. He cared more about money and political power than he did about the employees of New York City. From the placing of Emergency Management at World Trade Center 7, to providing radios that did not work to firefighters (I wonder which crony made out like a bandit on that), to timing his presence for the best press time (because we all know Rudy was more concerned with the World Series at that time), Rudy made one blunder after another (with deadly consequences to others). He then lied to the 9/11 Commission, he continues to lie to the media about his role and why he made the decisions he did; he even wants us to believe he was there just as much as first responders. This man is a criminal. Sorry, this is so long, but he makes me so angry. My family members survived that attack, but many friends did not. I liken his treatment of 9/11 first responders to that of the Bush Administration's treatment of our combat veterans -- one lie after another.
  • T. Sims
    If being the The Mayor of a major U.S. City which suffered a major catastrophe qualifies someone for President... Then the Mayor New Orleans is Just as qualified as Guiliani if not More qualified. At least he hasn't tugged and played with our heart-strings to promote his own political ambitions. Nor has He attempted to climb up on the Gravestones of that cities dead like steps in the Stairway to the Oval Office..
    Guiliani is a pittyful excuse for a man. My confidence in my Fellow Americans to reject him, Shunn him and cast him aside; has been affirmed here in these hundreds of posts. He is truely a Small person, literally and in every other sense of the term small. His own children and family have no desire to even be associated with him. How dare he attempt to deceive us all and himself. The dilluded pittyful soul.
  • chris
    "Death to all liberals! All liberals care about is looking after the niggers in our country"

    Remember that. The problem is not the small small amount of rich taxing you and sending you to war - it's your fellow man! Whether it be Italians, Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, Muslims ... it's the fellow working right next to you that is the problem - not that guy that is shafting you so he can buy a yacht. Remember this! tee hee...
  • Carl
    I haven't seen the whole film yet, but yes, Rudy has corrupt, wrong ties. He WAS there for all of us within 100 miles from N.Y.C., when Bush was in hiding, and neither Cheney or anyone else from D.C. was. Fire Dept. & Police not working together? The also very corrupt N.Y.P.D. has always 'picked on' the fire dept. In police union disputes about pay, police intentionally blocked hydrants the F.D.N.Y. needed badly.
  • Carol Lems-Dworkin
    UGH!
  • His failures up to and prior to that terrible day are manifest. But his current failures are nearly as disturbing; harvesting the horror of 9/11 in the form of a politically advantageous photo-op. He aspires to the politics of fear - a failure.
  • Susan V. Nail
    I am horrified by the fact that Rudy gave faulty radios to NYC firefighters.
  • Not Disclosing
    The reason he insisted on WTC-7/23 is because that was the command center - for the attacks. The shape charges in WTC 1 and 2 were detonated by radio from that command center. When it was evacuated, they blew WTC 7 as well to cover the evidence. Giuliani was fully aware of 9/11 before, during and exploits the deaths of thousands for his own vanity and gain. Via the media and corrupt election, he is going to be installed as the next president in repayment for his "service" and complacency in the WTC operation - this is only in the rare case that GWB doesn't stage another 9/11 or attack Iran first and name himself president for life.
  • Susie Johnson
    It amazes me how the mainstream media (whom most of us rely upon to provide us with accurate information) can help create a false image of this person -- America's Mayor. Why do we allow this to happen? What is wrong with us?
  • Ken Parker
    Rudy's worst crime was covering up the mass murder by blocking any real investigation and hurriedly destroying all evidence showing that the buildings were actually brought down by explosives in controlled demolitions. He is guilty of complicity in those murders.
  • F. Michael Tuohey
    Hey Rude, It's not always about you.... repeat....repeat......repeat......
  • Paul Chia
    Giuliani has failed New York from day one to 9-1-1.
    His early career was prosecuting aging Italian mobsters while taking payola from Russian & Chinese mobs for former mafia turf.. Then as mayor moved in his own thugs. He used police to clear off Washington Square of street vendors so a deal could be cut with NYU for the privatization of the streets around the park, which failed due to grassroots effort of nobody less than street book vendors. He sold out the lower east side to friends, stealing community gardens on every block, and using military force to evict responsible squatters and their families.
    His deal with grandmaster zionist thug Silverstein was a quantum leap as he attempts to lie his way to the presidency. Did you see him evade even the mild questions of Charlie Rose a few weeks ago? He cannot tell the truth, and thankfully cannot hide that fact. BRING HIM DOWN, and fight for 911 truth. Thanks for this project.
  • Ray J. Jones
    Knowing all of these failures by this man, why are so many people attracted to this loser? Why are people attracted to losers like him who are running this country? It's scary!
  • Martin Pieciak
    I have way to many thoughts about why Rudy failed us on 9/11. Especially this one when he was warning that the towers were going to come down and he didn't warn anybody else. The faulty radios,complete police state in nyc before 9/11 and still couldn't protect anybody. He doesn't deserve to be mayor or president of a trailer park, let alone be president of a country. Far beyond corrupt. Especially since he was knighted by the queen ,not really surprised.
  • Dana Beecher
    How come no one asks the Christine Lagato question? Donna Hanover, Rudy, himself and Christine Lagato and many New Yorkers know Rudy was banging Christine. Simply asking the question of them forces them to answer honestly or lie.
  • Gail Graf
    I thought Guliani did a good job until my friend told me he was a bully. Now I read the grave mistake of locating the Command Center in Building 7. I knew things were messed up with the phones not working causing communication problems that killed the firefighters and many others. I wondered who was responsible for the communication break down. I would never vote for Rudy for President even if he did a remarkable job on 9/11. I do not think he is intelligent enough nor is he in favor of multiculturalism. If it was not for Bratton, Rudy would have looked like a fool on crime.
  • Benihana
    Kate Lamb rocks. See st911.org, wayne madsen, look up Dov Zakheim while your're at it eh?
  • Kurt
    Giuliani is a cowardice punk. He's just as incompetent as that idiot from Texas, George W. Bush.
  • sam sammurai
    If Bush is Bad, Rudy Gulliani is the worst nightmare for Americans, he is biggeted, divisive anti muslim, anti poor, anti women by his abusive tactics towards women, his treatment of his wife is indictive of his role towards women in general. He saved himself and sacrifsed the firefighters. He is a flipflopper at best and a media whore or a revised history major at best. Run away from this man democrats and repulicans for he is the the ganster with a coat and tie.
  • sam sammurai
    If Bush is Bad, Rudy Gulliani is the worst nightmare for Americans, he is biggeted, divisive anti muslim, anti poor, anti women by his abusive tactics towards women, his treatment of his wife is indictive of his role towards women in general. He saved himself and sacrifsed the firefighters. He is a flipflopper at best and a media whore or a revised history major at best. Run away from this man democrats and repulicans for he is the the ganster with a coat and tie.
  • Benihana
    Rudy needs to be questioned using Alberto Gonzales's approved torture techniques. Remember be skeptical when asking questions is considered a hate-crime.
  • Morgaine A D'Clegg
    In every way humanly possible, he failed not only everyone involved, but himself as well. He is going down! I am voting for Ron Paul!
  • Benihana
    To Liberals SD or LSD: is that what you are on you pathetic little tiny semblance of a human? Or are you half-brained enough to conduct a semi-intelligent argument about the real world..... shouldn't you be watching re-runs of American Idiot?
  • Bonnie Cross
    Rudy appeared to be thriving on the lime lite of his presence. The men and women of the search and rescue teams were amazing while Rudy took all the glory. My as he is one of them, he didn't pick up a shovel or burn the bottomw of his feet, that take a brave man. The radios were disgraceful offering little to no communication. He took full advantage of having his face on national television for the whole country to see, and then he dropped the ball behind the scenes. I know NYC firefighters, and police officers and they all say the same thing there was no leadership from Rudy Boy. Remember he was in the throws of a divorce and obviously that remained his focal point. He was interested in protecting himself as much as possible from financial ruin, and let New York and American down. I hail from Texas and thought it was only in Texas that we could find the good ole' boys taking care of the good ole' boy, but it was evident Rudy and Bush paid their friends to do a job in 9/11, and that failed miserably. Before 911 I thought Rudy was something more then what he proved to be when the rubber met the road in on 9/11 and afterwards. He isn't Presidential material, he couldnt't preside over NYC how could anyone expect him to preside over America? His moral code of ethics is not that of someone I would desire to lead my country.
    B. Cross
  • Jill Ballenger
    This reminds me of when Bush first started campaigning, way back when. I just couldn't BELIEVE the lying jackass could pull the wool over so many people's eyes....but he did. And still does for 28% of them. Yet Giuliani is out front in the Repulican primary polls. Must be that same 28%. Who ARE these people?
  • Benihana
    I am embarrassed how Muslims take the blame for terrorism. Extremists of ALL types are dangerous and unreasonable. Such stereotypes tend to point the blame towards those who gain most from the Muslim demise.
  • hagbard
    You mean he didn't deliberately choose WTC because it was a target?
  • Nancy Garvin
    One of Bush's buddies, another politician that will play on someone's terror for political gain. Now he is looking to be our next President for all the good he did for New York, pathetic!!!!!
  • GloriaKlein
    He is a political hack, more mouth than brains and a liar. He is totally immersed in himself and a very bad person to represent Democracy as well as a horror if considered for the Presidency.
  • Benihan
    Rudy is no exception, everyone has their price. He used the senseless killing of innocent New Yorkers for his political gain. He is a hypocrite and down right liar. Please vote for Ron Paul or don't vote. Obama is hopefully uncorrupted for now, and would probably be erased by the CIA for questioning Israel's foreign policy since that conflicts with the Rothschild/Rockefellon plan for ultimate control of the global economy etc.
  • Stephen Wiley
    He should be tried and hung for these crimes
  • Rose P. Lynch
    Mayor Guiliani was an inept Mayor of NYC...he was arrogant and inaccessible
  • jack swist
    I watched this man floundering around the city when he arrived at the terrible scene. He was doing nothing more than photo ops. The various emergency managers and first responder managers are the folks that were the heroes and brought the situation under control, not that phony Guilani. Also, he would not have been such a great "crime fighter" were it not for the finks and rats in the mobs organizations. Again, the police made those contacts and set up the interviews and stings to get Sammy the Bull to turn against the Gotti. Without that hard work, he, the Don would still be running things, Guilani is a fake, a woman abuser and all around bum in my view. I'm goig Independant after a life of Democartic voting. The Dems want to hand our country and jobs and borders over to illegal peole and the Rep's want to hand our blood and treasuer over to Iraq. We the American people get stiffed regardless of what or how we what on. Hillary is a non started in the general election, Obama might stabd a chance and frankly I like what Ron Paul says. They seem to be honest people.
    Thank you for letting me voice my oppinion. PS: I wish Eduardo Kennedyaz, my Ma. Senator would resign along with John Warner, a gentlman!
  • Ron Hepler
    Rudy was a total success. His friend Silverman took a 99 year leas on the financial White Elephant known as the World Trade Center; and immediately upgraded the insurance to cover Terrorism. After the laws of physics were turned inside out by an untold number of Secondary Explosions noted by Firemen, Rudy had the evidence laiden steel sold to a foreign company before the dust had settled. His command center in 7-WTC was brought to the ground by explosive demolition after a small unexplained fire was noted in the building. This was revealed by Silverman himself on a PBS documentary. So Rudy got to be "America's Mayor" and it initially only cost about 3000 Americans their lives. Now that is stepping onto center stage.
  • Jase Campbell
    because he's a rich, lyin', corrupt fuckin' rat bastard Republican who doesn't give a shit about us working stiffs
  • Benihana
    CNN says: New Bin Laden video expected for the 9-11 Anniverary, Ticker: Bush: 'We're kicking ass' in Iraq See how pathetic we have become as a society? Gullible people willing to accept BS because it's easier than thinking.
  • Cynthia Hartsfield Pilzner
    To attempt to use a national disaster to his advantage is the worst thing he has done!!! He certainly will NOT get my vote in 2008, even if he is the best candidate otehrwise. Republicans needs to nominate someone else!!!
  • JoeySoCal
    reThugliCons are shit. Shit. I pee on them.
  • Glenda Nail
    Took safety for New York for granted. Not prepared for a disaster of any kind. His ego was more important than the safety of New Yorkers.
  • Benihana
    Let's get something straight right know. The war on Terror is fabricated by funds from the CIA to Pakistan and Afganistan for the Mudahageen(sp) originally designed to fight the Soviets 30 years ago....Al Queda however they want to spell it is a carefully planned by product of our efforts to promote Islamic extremism. This is a smoke screen for the eternal war.
  • Ed Smith
    Rudy should be getting water-boarded with the rest of the 9/11 scum!

    Ron Paul 2008!
  • Impeach Shrub &amp; Chub
    Rudy failed because he's another grandingstanding, narcissistic, self aggrandizing, inept, greedy schmuck, who has no other skills other than the B.S. skills needed to be a 'good' politician, but an extremely bad leader. He'd be another Shrub as President, the last thing this nation needs repeated ever again. He didn't do anything to better protect or better prepare N.Y.C. from terrorists attacks, he won't do any better for the entire country. Like Shrub, he's all hot air, and no meaningful substance.
  • Audrey Burdett
    Rudy changed allegiance at a strange time to a political party. I would like to know what influenced the change or rather who was behind it and what was promised. ABB
  • Harold
    Put the blame where it lies, the foreign policies of the U.S. government which are alienated us daily from other countries. We need to concern ourselves with Americans instead of sending enormous amounts of gratuities to foreign governments, and minding out business at home. We cannot dictate policy to other countries. The important thing is policies that will protect America. We are now hated by extremists, and are targeted for reprisals.
  • Benihana
    It's great to see so many like minded people coming together against another one of the evil empire's droogies, now how do we convince the mainstream media to do some real investigative reporting ala Seymour Hersch and really blow the whistle on the New World Order. I'm convinced that we unfortunately will be gagged as the NYPD and NYFD was after 9-11. To the neocons with no conscience: why did WTC 7 collapse at free fall speed in its own footprint and what caused the explosions at and below ground level? We know, but you are afraid of the evidence or lack there of since it was quickly removed by disturbing a crime scene which is supposedly illegal, just like your war for profit scheme.
  • Joe
    This talk isn't getting us any where...bottom line ...Giuliani used the events of 911 for his own political gain
  • Ron Gray
    Rudy's most glaring failure is that he had the emergency command center in the #1 terror target location (nothing in the world could be more idiotic than this) just a few years earlier they attempted to bring it down with explosives from the basement ... and he didn't think then ... maybe I should more the command center? Rudy enjoy's thinking he was such a leader after 9/11 ... where was he before 9/11 ... he didn't prevent the first attempt that took place in New York City and he damn sure didn't prevent the second "successful" attack. Rudy believes (in his mind anyway) he did such a great job as a leader and mayor after 9/11 ... No one ever talks about the fact that any individual, male or female (mayor) of NYC would have done what was right and proper for that city - whom ever was the mayor at this tragic time. I'm sure they would have done a much more heroic and honorable job than Rudy. Now that the truth, the real facts are coming to light I'm quite sure someone else that may have been occupying that mayoral position would have been much better and honorable. Rudy only uses 9/11 for financial and political gain. And thats just evil.
  • rich loomis
    Failed to explain bld #7 abandonment, previously-arranged demolition, etc for only minor fires. Was this the bld that the one errant and shot down airliner was SUPPOSED to hit? Gee, what to do with all those explosives already in place, ready to be discovered . . guess we've got to "pull it" yes?
  • Hilda Taylor
    Why are you surprise? He's another Bushite who helped start the war in Iraq. That's why he's running away from the heat. Then shows up after to pretend he was a hero!
    The Taylor Family
  • Gail Moore
    Shameful, indeed.
  • norma ellison
    Shameful!!!!!!
  • Susan Craze
    If there is justice, on 1/20/09 Rudy will be chained to his cell floor in Gitmo. Rudy cares only for power and money--he cares not at all about ordinary people. Rudy was a "player" with Cheney, Rummy and the PNAC co-conspirators to pull off their New Pearl Harbor. After 9/11 they kicked our country in a fascist direction, shredded the Constitution, supported perpetual war for profit. The mainstream media swallowed it whole. Rudy and the other neocons are killers, thieves and liars. We must hold them accountable. My heart aches most of all for the loss of those brave NYC firefighters.
  • Anonymous
    Reply to Speaker.
    Republicans always blame others, now 9/11 it's Bill Clinton's fault. When I take a new job it is up to me to fix what is wrong and take full responsibility, specially when my predecessor tells me what to watch out for. Do you need more explanations?
  • Gail Moore
    To Liberals Suck ____ - what a sad little creature you must be. This is your point of view in 2007? I guess some of us haven't learned very much in the past 50 years, and that's pretty regrettable given all the education we've been given.
  • Liberals Suck Dick
    Every single one of you are pussies. All liberals are losers and you guys are liberals. Death to all liberals! All liberals care about is looking after the niggers in our country and niggers are what America's problem is, not the Taliban you fucking in the future dead liberals.
  • Anonymous
    Guiliani milked the media and covered his failure to have New York prepared for such a disaster. Let's keep in mind that most Americans do what they see and hear on TV, in second bites. Fred Thompson announced he is running for president on the Jay Leno's show, why not on a town meeting or a press conference. And now, people are talking because Oprah, Queen of the Talk Shows, got involved in politics and guiding them who to vote for. No wonder the country is in the mess it is. Wake up America.
  • Gail Moore
    I have to agree with Diane Whitmire and Len - it sure looked like controlled demolition to me, from everything I've read and observed about controlled demolition and the Twin Towers collapse. It's awful to contemplate, and no one wants to be tagged with the pejorative "conspiracy theorist" term, but a little personal investigation on everyone's part might show some things we'd much rather not believe. It did for me, to my grief and shock, and I wish otherwise.
  • Vince Treanor
    It's hard to believe how easily many Americans, especially those who live far from New York, see Rudy Giuliani as heroic because of what they saw on TV of his appearances during the aftermath of 9/11.
    Americans need to look at the hard facts of his failures of judgment which hindered the saving of lives that day, and in fact endangered the city's ability to cope with terrorism threats.
  • Ken Dillaha
    What a surprise you dont here this on rush or shawn or fox i cant even call it news
  • John Guido
    NO MORE DRESS WEARING QUEERS! Who try to disguise themselves as straight men!!!
  • Joan Bonnell
    Rudy Giuliani is an opportunist. He's interested in furthering his career and paying back his supporters. I've read that he's positively nasty when people don't agree with him. You can't make someone like that a President. The White House is already painfully for sale. If Giuliani's elected, the poor will just die off for lack of health care and the middle class will fight for its life. Rudy doesn't care about people, just Rudy. He's a dangerous man, even if you think you're his friend.
  • GENE YOUNG
    I vote on for all of the reasons. Giuliani is lieing hard to try an win the primary nomination.
  • John D
    He is exactly what i knew all the time... a grand standing phoney!
  • Katelamb
    Chris is correct. The propaganda system put out by the Globalists is so close to Nazi propaganda tactics that it's scary. The Bush regime has disinformation specialists and people who post to sites like this to discredit anyone who strays from regime canned beliefs.

    Every facet of the media is corrupted by the regime. If newspeople in every area-- directors, producers, actors, journalists, reporters, etc. want to keep eating, they tow the line. Like most Americans raised in our capitalist society, they're afraid of losing what they've worked hard to make, even when they see what's really happening. They also like their freedom, and keeping their families safe.

    One thing came from Nazi Germany that Globalists took to after WWII. It seems that IG Farben had developed a way to distribute quantities of a chemical to populations to lessen aggressiveness against authority in people, by inflicting brain damage. Russia used this chemical, too, in POW camps. What made it even better, was the fact that the chemical was a byproduct, a waste toxin, of aluminum manufacturing. We now drink it everyday in our water, because it supposedly reduces cavities in teeth, and makes money for capitalists. (http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/...).

    I don't wonder, anymore, where the spirit of journalistic truth and the fervency of patriotism have gone, after reading this research. It's all part of the plan.

    Sorry to have strayed from the Rudy topic, but he's part of the plan, as well. So was 9-11. If our government can let corporations poison us with chemicals in our water and lie about the effects, then they surely can kill several thousand citizens to facilitate war for the benefit of other corporations. Just like our dead troops, the number was an acceptable loss--to those giving the orders.
  • Len Miller
    Rudy Juliani didn't fail . .

    I happen to think he was part of it . .
  • Aurora Green
    Rudy is a fat cat just like the rest of the career politicians. We need to take back our country before it is ruined completely. We need our National Guard guarding OUR NATION not some foreign nation. Please join any anti war group and lets let them know we are getting angry about this.
  • robertwm
    What is alarming is that the mainstream media had dubbed him a hero-times magazine brought him on the front cover, which should have been a firefighter or medic-worse now the same mainstream media is working to hoist this mafia thug on us as the new president. That will be the final push over the precipice for this nation.
  • Dona Fitzgerald
    This man is SCARY. His Command Post was in Building 7 and HE HAD TO KNOW that that building was going to be blown up destroying all evidence that those planes were being controled to slam into the World Trade buildings! He could be WORSE THAN BUSH if that is at all possible!
  • M. L. Jenkins
    Rudy failed us long before 9/11. He failed us by consistently underfunding the schools (when per pupil expenditure in NYC was $7000 a year, he was paying twice that for school tuition for his own children & had the nerve to say "you can't throw money at the problem." He created divisive conditions pandering to white immigrant communities and ignoring people of color. I could go on.
  • Roberto Aburto
    Rudy failed not only failed NY firefighters and their families but the entire nation who needed some real leadership from the mayor of one the country's biggest cities. He failed because he's unable to lead a city in a time of crisis and he will most certainly be unable to lead an entire nation out from the disastrous black hole that is the administration of GWB.
  • Bettybb
    Rudy is another Bush. A meglomaniac who says anything he thinks his audience wants to hear, no matter how inaccurate. Let us hope that his act wears thn by the time the primarys are decided.

    I never did understand why Rudy was considered such a great hero for 911, other than he had the perfect "presence" for the occasion. Unfortunately, because I do not support him as politican, that presence, is a key ingredient to leadership. He did make America feel comforted, as if someone was in charge in New York.

    Therefore, it was very interesting to hear the comments that Rudy was running out of town. If his actions were cowardice, and could be contrasted with a mayor who was brave in a comparable situation (is there one?) it could really bring the point home. He did a great job in the beauty contest, but it was all make up.
  • chris
    "There is no evidence of a conspiracy on 9/11. None. That's reality - it has nothing to do with being open-minded."

    What about the theory that a bunch of muslims "conspired" to bring down the towers. The mainline story is a theory of conspiring people, also known as a "conspiracy theory" ... stfu noob ...
  • James van Maanen
    Mr. Giuiliani failed us so often in so many ways as Mayor that it surprises me no end that more people do not rewalize how he failed us regarding his part in the events of 9/11. He has consistently taken credit for so many things that should actually be credited to others (the dropping of the NYC crime rate, which was already on its way down during the Dinkins administration, for one major instance). He has a good PR machine. But it is time Americans stopped believing the usual PR and started paying attention to facts and deeds rather than talk, talk, talk. This usually translates, in any case, into lies, lies, lies. That certainly has been true where George W. Bush and his cronies are concerned. And it also has been the case with Rudy--far too often.
  • Harold J Macek
    All I know about rudy is, when an arabian offered hom some money for 9-11, he told them to shove it...and I applauded him for that..the arabs caused it...
  • vic mosetti
    this has nothing to do with rudy. the fire department screwed up big time. the number one rule is your own safety. they ran in to that building like they had no training. you always look at your safty first so you dont have to be rescue your self and endanger others.as far as i can see the ny fire department needs a lot of traing.
  • Irene McDonnell Cahill
    Rudy thought he knew it all and would behave similarly as President. America cannot afford to elect another person who does not listen to reason.
  • John W. Tibbs
    Poor planning by the mayor and his staff when it came to public safety.
    Put money in front of safety. Especially when it came to the fire department.
  • Diane Whitmire
    I think it goes way beyond Rudy. Only recently saw www.911mysteries.com. I believe science. It was all there and quite an education. Now when I see the replays of the WTC (and particularly Bldg 7 which wasn't hit by an airplane at all) it is so clearly a professional demolition pancaking right in place just as planned. Rudy pulling the searchers off once the gold was safe was a nice touch; giving a no-bid contract for the new radios and then not having them tested was another nice touch, but the dirty icing on this dirtier cake was learning that the insurance companies are denying the medical help to all the civilian volunteers and professionals who have all come down with severe respiratory diseases due to the asbestos-covered plumbing in the WTC as "pre-existing conditions." Not 'til they volunteered at the site, Bozos! Even several Rescue dogs have died of the same diseases. Watch "Sicko" and learn how our gov't really "Supports the Troops!" Are troops just the ones on the battlefields? After they come home? Troops even if gay? Troops even if civilian volunteers? Firefighters? Police? If you really want change in '08 and not the Same Old Thing, vote for Kucinich and if he hasn't been chosen by the media, write his name in the Primaries. It's way past time the Government was returned to the People. Impeach and Teach...you may not tamper with our Constitutional Rights!
  • Sandra Witecki
    I think he has made a lot of bad decisions before that even happened. He was very busy grabbing media attention and will be using that t.v. time to run for President. Guess what, we already have a jerk as Presdent and don't need another!
  • Abigail Winston
    I believe Giuliani put the command center where he did because he knew beforehand that the building would be destroyed. It was all part of the larger plot by the neocons for "a new Pearl Harbor."
  • Lou Torres
    Rudy did not fail us on 9-11! Just as he did not fail us at any time during his terms in office. Rudy is the man and I will do all I can to get him into the white house
  • Bobby
    The most disgusting thing about Guliani's handling of 9/11 was his outright lying about his role. Instead of saying he'd made a serious error by locating the command center at 7 World Trade Center, taking responsibility for his actions, Mr. Law and Order abdigated his responsibility and the press hardly noticed.
  • Mary Weisenberger
    Typical politician in this regime, tells lies right out and doesn't even blink. They are all liars and have no concern for anyone except their own cronies.
  • Milos Sinfelt
    One of biggest scumbacks and fascist with the shadiest past imaginable!!!!!
  • Joel Blalock
    It amazes me that people are still claiming that in 1993 that the bombing at the WTC was a terrorist event. I distinctly remember reading articles from abc and cbs where it was revealed that it was an FBI "training operation" gone wrong. They used real explosives and the question was raised at that time what the real intent of using said real explosives were by the FBI. Even with this evidence I'm amazed that such an event which was uncovered and even discussed on television for a very brief time is now being blamed explicitly on "terrorists". What the hell is really going on. I don't know if we'll ever really get the real full picture here.
  • John Mikeska
    Thanks to Robert Greenwald and everyone who made The Real Rudy.One day the Truth will come out.It took great effort from the "Jersey Girls" to even get a 911 investigation started months later.Rudy Giuliani had the evidence (twin towers metal) shipped away before any criminal investagation could occur.In what was the greatest crime of our lives.But you can't hide the Truth.
  • anonymous
    Brave New Films has lost its way and this latest video proves it. Right now America needs good alternative media and informative documentaries about the issues. Brave New Films has produced brilliant and effective documentaries like Iraq for Sale, Uncovered and Outfoxed. It is works such as these that have put Brave New Films on the map and made people take notice. This latest effort, therealrudy.com, is a terrible betrayal of the informative and issue based journalism that made Brave New Films so bold, refreshing and necessary.

    Brave New Films should stick to what they have done so well in the past, making powerful documentaries about matters important to all Americans. Instead it seems that they are trying to reinvent themselves as some kind of hollow partisan attack machine: Swift Boat Veterans for Hillary.

    Brave New Films should remain true to their name and make a documentary which transcends that status quo. A documentary that will speak truth to power and force BOTH the republicans and the democrats to do the right thing, if only on one issue. There is no shortage of issues where both parties have failed the American people. What about immigration? What about domestic spying and privacy? What about the ongoing propaganda campaign to attack Iran? What about impeachment and restoring the constitutional checks and balances in Washington?

    Brave New Films please live up to your name and your earlier legacy. Don't sink into vapid partisan politics and character assassination. You have the power to elevate the debate in this country above the content-free personality contest that it has become into something more meaningful. One day people should look back at this moment in time and know that Brave New Films made a difference, not by defaming one measly candidate, but by helping to define the national dialog.
  • Jerry Koch
    C'mon folks. The ultimate Rudy "failure" was the criminal act of ordering the destruction of building collapse evidence. In Minneapolis we're assembling the pieces of a collapsed bridge to learn what caused the death of 13 people. After the death of almost 3,000 on 9/11 this great prosecutor shipped the evidence to China. Isn't that a crime?
  • Deborah Saxe
    He's a politician,everytime his lips move its a lie.
  • Nathan Jaco
    I fail to understand the rationale of locating an emergency command center, without an alternative site, on the 23rd floor of any building; much less a building that by all reasonable accounts was a likely target for attack.
  • Our fault
    Guiliani was using TV, like most of the politicians One a way people are the ones to blame for this behavior because most Americans just believe what they see and hear on TV. TV runs our lives, Fred Thompson announced he's running for president on the Jay Leno's show, not at a press conference or meeting. Big deal Oprah is involved in politics, people are happy she's telling whom to vote for. Who is she to have people wrapped around her little finger besides having a talk show.
  • Anonymous
    The location of the command Center appears the most obvious mistake. I had read before about Guiliani that you have to be 100% with him , as was repeated here. After George W, Bush, who apparently believes he is always right and prizes loyalty above all, this is frightening. Rudy is aopparently interested in television appearance above all, and his standing among the Republicans must validaster this assesment. I can't imagine qwhat else they see in him.
  • Mack Waldrip
    Emergency management center location; unqualified cronies appointed to power positions; denial of health hazards to emergency responders and rescue workers; grandstanding attempts to portray himself as being at as great a risk....
  • Bridget Palecek
    It doesn't surprise me that all the hype by Rudy Giuliani on television during and after 9/11 was to benefit Rudy Giuliani. I was surprised to hear that the command center was in one of the towers, especially since the tower had been the target of a terrorist act before. Renting the command suite from the tower was nothing more than a political move to gain political clout with the owner of that suite, and it worked out well for Rudy Giuliani, but not for the firemen and policemen who lost their lives because of a political move by the mayor of New York.
    Shame on you Rudy.
  • Bernie O
    What really gets to me is the way he laughs at Chris Wallace's questions.
    I read that he also used the luxurious office he had built at the center as a place to have trysts with his girlfriend - now wife. He may be a bigger narcissist than Bush, if that's possible.
  • Bridget Palecek
    It doesn't surprise me that all the hype by Rudy Giuliani on television during and after 9/11 was to benefit Rudy Giuliani. I was surprised to hear that the command center was in one of the towers, especially since the tower had been the target of a terrorist act before. Renting the command suite from the tower was nothing more than a political move to gain political clout with the owner of that suite, and it worked out well for Rudy Giuliani, but not for the firemen and policemen who lost their lives because of a political move by the mayor of New York.
    Shame on you Rudy.
  • Murray Lawsky
    I shudder when I think that this man could
    could possibly become our next President!
  • He lied and thousands died
    Rudy lies and thousands continue to die.
    Elect him mayor of New York.
    He'd s s quitter, he left the Senate race against Hillary Clinton. And today, he is the wrong man to lead America.
    He continues to spread his fear, hate and twisted vision our America.
    I don't trust him. Most people don't trust him.
    I would never vote for him.

    And now we learn more truth about a man who will do or say almost anything to be President.
    The way he laughed at the interviewer was the way he lies with a toothy grin and a twinkle in his eye.
  • John
    don't forget that Rudy is a Chicken Hawk; he is FOR Bush's War. He was draft age, like Bush, during the VietNam war, and could have EASILY volunteered for combat. instead, he chose to make money and a name for himself. Rudy never
    even served coffee + donuts at the scene of a
    fire. He's done NOTHING for his country.
  • chris
    oops my bad ... nix the jefferson -- I was thinking of his letters to hamilton
  • chris
    "Read The New Pearl Harbor, and Synthetic Terror, to find out where the pattern of evidence leads on 9/11."

    The federalist papers ought be enough here... hamilton and jefferson whined relentlessly about trying to come up with a system where what just happened, couldn't. It's a good read if you haven't done so.
  • Char Monahan
    9/6/07
    It was very obvious that Giuliani failed in his most basic
    obligations after the 9/11 tragedy. Instead of remaining in New York to conduct much needed hands-on assistance and aid in direct physical and technical emergency situations, Giuliani flew to Phoenix, AZ on a chartered plane to attend a world series baseball game between the Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks.

    My heart ached as I watched him on TV stroll onto the field in Phoenix with Yankee manager, Joe Torre, just a short time after 9/11. It was unconscionable that Giuliani could flagrantly assume the media star role rather than keep vigil over the grave damages and urgent emergencies of 9/11 at the twin towers.

    Guiliani's actions in this incident speak loud and clear..... indicating a complete disregard for the performance of duty. His words of denial and claims of virtue only add
    credence to his guilt.

    (signed)
    Char Monahan
    Chandler, AZ
  • Char Monahan
    9/6/07
    It was very obvious that Giuliani failed in his most basic
    obligations after the 9/11 tragedy. Instead of remaining in New York to conduct much needed hands-on assistance and aid in direct physical and technical emergency situations, Giuliani flew to Phoenix, AZ on a chartered plane to attend a world series baseball game between the Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks.

    My heart ached as I watched him on TV stroll onto the field in Phoenix with Yankee manager, Joe Torre, just a short time after 9/11. It was unconscionable that Giuliani could flagrantly assume the media star role rather than keep vigil over the grave damages and urgent emergencies of 9/11 at the twin towers.

    Guiliani's actions in this incident speak loud and clear..... indicating a complete disregard for the performance of duty. His words of denial and claims of virtue only add
    credence to his guilt.

    (signed)
    Char Monahan
    Chandler, AZ
  • Anonymous
    Read The New Pearl Harbor, and Synthetic Terror, to find out where the pattern of evidence leads on 9/11.
  • Ted Neros
    Rudy is an opportunist who is attempting to gain recognition by playing the 911 card.
    He did absolutely nothing to prevent the disaster, and did nothing afterward to ensure it did not happen again. The entire 911 disaster has been covered up, whitewashed. I am totally surprised the firemen and policemen and their families are not going after Rudy's throat for using the deaths of their loved ones for political gain. Absolutely disgusting.
  • chris
    the whole point is that it is a tightly controlled propaganda system that tells you what to think ... period, plain and simple. It's genius in that people like you refuse to believe it.
  • Joswell Valdez
    The reason why he failed us on 9/11 it was because he was to busy promoting himself to become a major world Icon by doing press confrences and tv interviews.

    Rudy only cares about the money, power, and respect! How can people not see it! He is not for the people.

    How can you call yourself a leader when you running away from a tragedy scene on national tv like ok, I am here and I have balls. now, I got to go fast!!!!!
  • Gail Moore
    Sorry, didn't intend anonymity - forgot to add my name. But - yes, Jim, I agree with you.
  • Anonymous
    Yes, Jim, I think he would.
  • Jim Gilliam the older
    Rudy would be a horrible president, perhaps even worst than Bush.
  • RedWhite&amp;Brooklyn
    Here's what Rudy concentrated million of our tax dollars on while he was doing a lousy job of being our mayor:

    In New York City, arrests for marijuana possession and use had risen from fewer than 2,000 in 1992 to more than 52,000 in 2000. Minor marijuana offenses came to comprise 15% of all arrests in the city of New York.

    Possession of small amounts of marijuana had already been decriminalized by the laws of New York State, but Rudy decided to lock up smokers... even though most of them had no prior arrest record and were the same middle class people whom he claimed to be making the city safer for. Thousands of people were routinely busted on Friday night, held over the weekend in lockup, brought before a judge on Monday and sentenced to time served... even though the law would have allowed for the police to write an appearance ticket and a fine could have been paid. Yep... plenty of you pot-smoking hypocrites from the right would also have been locked up and now have an arrest record if you lived in NYC during Rudy's reign.

    As for Rudy being such a good prosecutor: Yeah, good for getting headlines. The gangsters he had perpwalked on the 6 o'clock news were brought to court before solid cases had been built against them, and almost every one of them walked... until Rudy's sucessor acted like a real prosecutor and actually made a solid case. Even Republican judges were constantly criticizing the half-assed cases he had his underlings bring to court. The conviction rate of mobsters in the New York area more than tripled after Rudy left the prosecutor's job.
  • Gail Moore
    I don't disagree with you, Jay. We should be angry at what went down, and I'm not advocating that we all "get along", by any means. I'm asking that we try to treat one another with decency whether we agree or disagree. There's a lot to be angry about; I don't dispute that - but "you homo" doesn't do much to further the discussion, does it?
  • Don
    "Do you still believe this "liberal media" myth."

    Sure do!!!!

    "the media bends over backwards and does every contortion to be as conservative as possible these days. They are lapdogs for Bush, support the war, defame the protestors,..."

    You need to wake up. Can you support those statements? NO - I doubt it.

    "...ignore Israel, demonize some dead guy named Osama, completely ignore ron paul, ignore leirbermann's israeli ties ..."

    To ignore Israel would not be a conservative action, but a liberal one. Demonize a man that hides in a cave after killing over 3000 people - yeah, so! Ignore Leibermann - he was a Democrat, wasn't he?

    "look man ... reporters and investigators of the public sector should mis-trust authority, question it, find truth, and get to the bottom of things. It is the media's job to be jaded and cynical.

    In a state controlled media system like that of Nazi Germany, the media's job is just to convince the people to go along with the governments misdeeds - ie, tony snow."

    Wrong again. Their job would be to report the truth, not attack a certain group.
  • RedWhite&amp;Brooklyn
    Rudy has turned his back on every principle he ever stood for, broken every promise he ever made, double crossed every friend he ever had. He was a terrible, horrible mayor, who, on Sept. 10 had approval numbers as low as George W. Bush.

    As for the often-cited drop in crime, people who have actually studied this (as opposed to some of the posters on this site) know that there was a similar drop in crime nationwide. There was also a much better and effective use of the Police, thanks to Chief William Bratton (whom Rudy fired because HE wanted the credit for everything good happening in NYC) and his strong right hand man, Jack Maple. There were more Police on the streets of NYC because Bill Clinton, along with balancing the Federal Budget, allocated funds for more than 100,000 more cops in America. (One of dozens of campaign promises he either met or exceeded... as opposed to the last few repug presidents, who have never kept a promise.) David Dinkins went after these funds and put them into the NYPD... but, of course, Rudy claimed that it was HE who got that funding.
  • Orville Griggs
    Rudy failed the American Citizens on 9/11 because Rudy was looking out for himself (having knowledge of what was going to happen). So, really, Rudy was no worse than Pres. Cheney, VP Bush, or Cond. Rice. They all knew, you know they did.
  • Sherry Kessel
    This is appalling. Just simply unbelievable.
    G-d help us all if this guy gets in.
  • Jay Ahl
    You're wrong, Gail. America needs people to get angry and do something. This get along stuff got us here, didn't it?
  • TLG
    Rudy didn't know what to do. He was lost.
    He couldn't collect rational thoughts.
    He was not an effective leader, and never has been.
  • Gail Moore
    Thanks for all your hard work on this post, and for telling truths that needed to be told. The comments I have read thus far largely take no notice of that, but seem to be written by angry, agenda-driven souls spoiling for a fight with one another - probably the last thing America needs just now, and likely the first thing that anger engenders. We are all angry and sorely grieved at the failures, mistakes and needless deaths that resulted from the gross mishandling of the events of 9/ll, on all levels right up to the White House - certainly Mr. Giuliani deserves strong criticism for being figuratively in bed with Mr. Silverstein, for issuing defective equipment to first responders and for failing to do anything that had any actual positive effect on the situation - he got himself a lot of press attention, which he's always sought since his days as a prosecutor; he's great at getting that done. I myself think he's a self-absorbed, dishonest, self-promoting jerk, who's willing to say anything to make himself look credible, usually at anyone else's expense - he certainly shouldn't be running for office, and is largely unworthy of any attention at all. But, fellow posters, some of these things you all have written are not to the point - "you homo" - really,come on. Let's address the issue raised and not stoop to this kind of asinine attack mode; this situation is too grave for this. Firefighters, police officers and civilians didn't die to give us an excuse to use racial, sexual and otherwise bigoted slurs on one another - can we elevate the tone of the discussion, and act like adults now?
  • Anonymous
    It amazes me that people still say that because we question what actually happened on 9/11 that we somehow are disrespecting the dead on 9/11. Wrong. As you can see, many firefighters and firefighters families are speaking out about this. They know they have been lied to.
    When a government is forewarned about an attack and does nothing to prevent it, it's neglect. Plain and simple. And getting answers to our government's fraudulent activity, leading up to and following 9/11, is what those victims deserve.
    If nobody was to expose the truth and let the Neocons get away with their Mega Million dollar scheme, that would be wrong.
    And do not think for one damned minute someone will not kill you over money. Just because they are politicians, do not think they are not crooks and killers.
    Anyone who cannot see the corruption in Capital Hill today is simply blind or in denial.
    Wake the fuck up, because when the time comes, we will let you BushCo. supporters die in the streets when the shit hits the fan. We may even use you for cover from the cross fire!
  • Yousuck
    Chris,

    There is no evidence of a conspiracy on 9/11. None. That's reality - it has nothing to do with being open-minded. There are things that happened on 9/11 that are debateable but there is nothing that points to even the possibility of a conspiracy.

    I would challenge any 9/11 conspiracy theorist to bring one piece of evidence that didn't come from a website on the internet to my attention.

    The truth is, the people that are accepting these conspiracies are closed-minded and simply following what other people are telling them without any proof beyond circumstantial. Those people are more interested in reaching their own political agendas than being open-minded or discovering truth.
  • Jay Ahl
    And my final point:

    Rudy was my mayor in 1993 for the first bombimg at the World Trade Center. From 1993 to 2001, he did fuckin' NOTHING!! He didn't fix the radios that we all knew were outdated and almost useless. He didn't address any terrorism related issues publically in one of the world's greatest potential terrorism targets. He didn't do anything about even building that bunker for years, then put it a few hundred feet away from the site of the '93 bombing. He is a FRAUD, and anyone defending him here deserves this man as their president.
  • Gene
    As much as I hate Bush, Cheney and all of the neo-con draft dodgers (Don't give me the bullshit about Bush being in the Texas Air Corp). Dan Rather was right. But the White House spin doctors erased all of the "proof" and Dather was left twisting in the wind, babbling about like a blithering idiot. With no job. Or any credibility.

    But worse of all is Rudy's stellar military record. What you say? Oh yeah, He also got FOUR deferments so he could finish college and complete law school. What a man. What a hero. Yeah. My ass.
  • RedWhite&amp;Brooklyn
    I can imagine a quiet get-together of “family values” republicans, having a few drinks, smoking their smuggled-in Havanas. Bob Dole says: “I had my aides bring my first wife to court in the middle of the night, in front of a judge who was a friend of mine and Bang! Divorce granted. She never even knew I had filed!” Newt Gingrich says: “That’s nothing! I told my wife I wanted a divorce just as she was coming out from under anesthesia, after cancer surgery… just when she needed me more than ever!” Rudy says: “I married my first cousin and then had the marriage annulled to “marry up” to a blonde actress… and then had my lawyer slander her on television… on Mother’s Day… with my kids watching! Then I went to court to try getting her kicked out of our home so that my girlfriend could move in!” “Rudy”, they all cried out, “You are THE MAN!!! Family values! Family values! Family values!”
  • chris
    H. Carey - vote for candidates with integrity - not ones that call themselves a word you feel attached to.