Some 9/11 victims group want Guliani silent at ceremony-shut it Rudy.

[AlCzervik]

Some 9/11 groups want Giuliani silent at ceremony
Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:31 PM ET

By Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Families of September 11 victims and emergency responders raised alarms on Wednesday that former New York mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani might politicize the sixth anniversary memorial of the attacks.

Giuliani has attended all five previous September 11 commemorations but this is the Republican's first engagement as a presidential candidate seeking the White House.

"Families and first responders are outraged and call for this speaking invitation to be rescinded and insist that politics be kept out of the 9/11 anniversary ceremony," said a statement by four September 11 groups.

"Rudy Giuliani should attend in silence with other invited guests."

Giuliani leads Republicans in national opinion polls for the November 2008 presidential elections largely on the strength of his performance as New York's mayor on September 11, 2001. On Wednesday, he announced he had formed a "first responders" group of supporters to defend his record as mayor.

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[slowry]

1. That's kinda unfair.

How can you ask someone not to speak about the greatest moment of their life?

[bryant69]

3. I suppose when that person is trying to use that moment

to run for President.

I'm not sure about greatest moment either - unless that was meant ironically.

Bryant
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[Gabi Hayes]

2. from the 'I saw it on TV, so this has to be true' department: Rudy

spent TWICE as many hours watching Yankee games after 911 as he did at ground zero

anybody else see that?