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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rudy-giuliani-there-were-no-successful-terror-attacks-before-obama-w434639
Before Obama came along, we didnt have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks inside the United States. They all started when (Hillary) Clinton and Obama got into office, Giuliani, 72, said at a Donald Trump campaign event in Ohio on Monday, August 15.
Rudy Giuliani speaks during a campaign event for the 2016 Republican presidential nominee in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S., on Aug 15, 2016. Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Republican politician who was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, including the day when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and killed more than 3,000 was heavily criticized on social media for his comment, which seemed as if he momentarily forgot about the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
One tweeter wrote, Disgusted that Rudy Giuliani is so anti-Obama that he is willing to dishonor the memory of those lost during 9/11. He of all people knows better.
Others argued that the comment was taken out of context since Giuliani had referenced both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center just seconds before making the apparent gaffe.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)when the WTC was bombed killing six Americans by terrorists who came from Pakistan
Then 9/11 happened during Rudy's watch, in part, more people died because Rudy didn't do all the things recommended by the review of the 1993 attack. (something to do with the radios for example)
Selective memory. Like Trump, I think he's a lying pig.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)lapucelle
(18,372 posts)He didn't count the 9/11 victims in the murder crime rate that year. If he had, there would have been a 26% rise in the murder rate.
The number of murders is listed as 609.
That doesn't include the 1102 people killed on 9/11.
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2012b/pr489-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1
Crime was worse under Guiliani than under any mayor in recent history. He undid all the policies of Mayors Koch and Dinkins and allowed the police to run rampant, all the while allowing over 3000 people to die in his city in one day.
Orrex
(63,247 posts)I'm not disagreeing with your assertion that Giuliani fudged the numbers, but it seems that his deception is even greater?
lapucelle
(18,372 posts)Thanks for correcting the record.
Orrex
(63,247 posts)Thanks for the follow up.
Mendocino
(7,517 posts)the Trump look, jaundice skin tone and at least one small finger.
niyad
(113,701 posts)have not choked you yet.
do yourself and the world a favour, shut up, and retire to the obscurity you so totally merit.