Giuliani: New York City Survived 9/11 Attacks Because Of Me

Think Progress
January 9, 2007

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today on homeland security, Rudy Giuliani references September 11 nine separate times. In one of those instances, he claims he prepared New York City well to “withstand the 9/11 attack“:

One reason New York City was able to withstand the 9/11 attack was that we were prepared to meet 21st-century security threats. … And while we didn’t anticipate the specific scenario of 9/11, the constant practice, and the relentless follow-up from actual emergencies, certainly helped in its aftermath.

Jim Riches, a deputy New York City fire chief who lost a son at the Trade Center, has a very different perspective:

“Lives were lost because of the lack of preparation and (Giuliani’s) lack of leadership,” said Riches, who spent 16 days in a coma after the attacks due to respiratory failure. “All he did was run that day, and get on TV and provide a calming influence for the United States of America. And they made him a hero.”

Because of Giuliani’s failures, first responders were forced to use old radio equipment on 9/11 that prevented them from hearing evacuation orders when the World Trade Center buildings were about to collapse. The radios had malfunctioned eight years earlier, during the 1993 attacks on the WTC.

Giuliani claimed last month, “It would have been impossible for me to have those radios ready.” It would not have been impossible. After the 1993 incident, Giuliani gave Motorola a $14-million no-bid contract to produce faulty radios that had to be taken out of service in March 2001. Brave New Films released this web video detailing the negative impact Giuliani’s no-bid decision had on firefighters on 9/11.

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  2. Raul F. Calixto III on January 9th, 2008

    The govt. is spending billions upon billions of Monopoly paper (a.k.a. IOU’s) on staged attacks, wars, genocidal eugenics projects… need I go on???

    If the govt. can afford to do that… need I say more???

    And by the way… Gooliani dressed the part and he surely acts the part, as he most certainly did on that day… you know what I’m talking about (hint: it’s a five letter word for an animal)

  3. Daniel on January 9th, 2008

    This guy is the biggest scum bag I’ve ever seen!

  4. Globalstomp on January 9th, 2008

    For fourteen million you would think Motorolla could do something as simple as make the radios work as needed. Ghouliani the son of a mob boss should be investigated not be running for president. It sickens me when I see him or even hear him much less open his mouth and talk with his speech impediment like someone years ago punched his lips to the side of his face. Ghouliani I know your going down you globalist goomba f**K.

  5. d. skupien on January 9th, 2008

    giuliani needs to be held accountable!!!!

  6. TruthgoneWild on January 9th, 2008

    21st-century security threats?

    Hijacking airliners is a 20th century threat you ignoramus! God you are stupid!

    Will someone put some tape on his mouth already?

  7. Tony Ryan on January 10th, 2008

    Rest assured Guiliani will not be elected US President. The chickens are coming home to roost for him after his gross negligence peior to 9/11- the failure to provide functioning Radios; on 9/11 where he trampled the streets of Manhatten like a headless chicken and yet he has the audacity to claim that he saved New York and post 9/11 where he was involved in the 9/11 cover up by expediting the removal of the steel that would have proved beyond doubt that there was controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and building 7. He was also involved in the cover up of the fact that he knew of the levels of toxicity in the air in lower Manhatten and didn’t supply the ground zero workers with masks with the result that as many if not more people will die than on 9/11 itself as a result of cancer and respiratory dieseases.
    His removal of the steel was a federal offence and when the criminals responsible for 9/11 are brought to justice - and they will be- he should be in the dock along with them facing a minimum sentence of life in prison. Anyone who would vote for him is either a fellow neocon or is cerebrally challenged from watching and listening to too much of Bush’s indoctrination ministry apparatchiks aka Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity of Foxnews.

  8. Dyne on January 10th, 2008

    Yeah right. New York city survived 9/11 DESPITE Giuliani.

  9. Al on January 10th, 2008

    The hubris is just overwhelming…

    If Ron Paul doesn’t get elected, I may move to the Lakota Nation!

    Or how ’bout just plain ‘ol secession?

    Hey, if we can’t get the most honest leader, I say, secession!

  10. ACL on January 10th, 2008

    Many died because of Gulliani and the rest of the thugs that were behind 911. In the past I use to always think Giuliani was this great man that saved New york from crimes and organized crime when in fact he too is an organized criminal. But I can gladly tell you that Clinton, Obama, Huckabee, Romney, Mcain are not the answer either.

  11. bill parker on January 10th, 2008

    Rudy Julie Annie. You too can be a cross dressing,lying neocon mobster and run for president. Rudy why didn’t you go anywhere near your command center in WTC7 on 911. Every word out of that putrid mouth is a lie.

  12. Doc Reality on January 10th, 2008

    Guiliani knew about 911, he was well aware of the scheme. This was a very typical financial fraud operation albeit on a grandiose scale, and a geopolitical false flag for the imperial globalist agenda. At this point anyone believing the government’s farcical tale of 911 has been brainwashed beyond the point of cognizant thought.
    Ghouliani is still preying upon the gullible, he is doing his role in destroying the American Republic to the tee.

  13. John Mascaro on January 10th, 2008

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  14. Barb Clark on January 11th, 2008

    I have learned in my battles with the State of California government that the false impression of care-free foot-dragging ineptness is designed to engender sympathy. Government pretends to be retarded to lessen the severity of outrage against “ineptness”. Don’t be fooled, this is an age old tactic. It is designed to make you feel like the bureaucratic class of people (with life long jobs) are just stupid and bungling incompetents. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. It is a fraud. Wake up.

    www.BarbClark.org

  15. WinstonNephron on January 11th, 2008

    Huh, and here all I thought all he ever accomplished was cooking the books to cover up all the tax dollars he diverted to pay for his extramarital affairs. The thought of this creep ever being President makes me sick.

  16. geerish on January 14th, 2008

    Dont worry the way we do many things he will be elected President and the Congress for ever will be bending to his orders and wishes.

  17. GetAClue on January 17th, 2008

    Giuliani is nothing more than a NWO puppet in womens clothing. If NYC survived because of him, then its because the CIA and Mossad like transvestites and were partying with the silly freak in the bunker he set up at the Port Authority, instead of blowing up more buildings and blaming it on Usama.