Giuliani: Joining Iraq group a mistake

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday it was a mistake for him to join the Iraq Study Group, on which he lasted just two months and failed to show for any official meetings.

The former New York mayor has tried to tamp down criticism in recent days after Newsday reported that Giuliani was a no-show for two of the group's meetings and instead attended paid public appearances.

"I thought it would work, but then after a month or two I realized the idea that I was possibly going to run for president would be inconsistent with that," Giuliani said during a campaign stop in Iowa.

Giuliani said the main reason he quit was that it "didn't seem that I would really be able to keep the thing focused on a bipartisan, nonpolitical resolution."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_iraq_group

[pinto]

1. And this quote is exactly why he has no qualification to be President:

Giuliani said the main reason he quit was that it "didn't seem that I would really be able to keep the thing focused on a bipartisan, nonpolitical resolution."

[speedoo]

2. Of course, Rudy.

That'll work. For Judi and Bernie, anyway.

Fucking POS.

[Eugene]

3. Rudy backed the Iraq war as part of the "War on Terror."

Giuliani has played 9/11 and the "War on Terror" for
all they are worth. "America's Mayor" had a duty
as a political leader in the war.

The hero of 9/11 put is own personal political gain
before the national interest. That alone makes him
unfit to be President.

[calimary]

4. And it CERTAINLY doesn't make him a hero, either.

[gratuitous]

8. Surprisingly . . .

Talking Points Memo has checked into Mr. Giuliani's record on Iraq, and he's been oddly quiet about it. He acknowledges, grudgingly, that there is a war going on in Iraq, but he pretty much regards it as irrelevant to the greater war on terror. He admits that losing in Iraq would be worse than winning, but he just doesn't talk about it very much.

Very strange. And yet no one in the media seems terribly interested in finding out just what Mr. Giuliani thinks might be done in Iraq, or what winning might look like. He's ducked the question, basically saying that whatever happens in Iraq is out of his hands (and, as a private citizen, I guess that's true), but offering no concrete proposals for what he would do about Iraq should the American people lose their collective mind and install him in the White House come 2009.

[WCGreen]

5. How Would he know if he never attended a meeting....

[leQ]

9. BINGO! give that guy a ceegar. (eom)

[NI4NI]

6. Let me get this straight in my mind

Trudy felt that his presidential campaign (which I believe had not yet begun) would have been "inconsistent" with the ISG and its main objective of helping solve the most deadliest and expensive issue for the country he wants to be president of?

My head hurts!

[Javaman]

7. So mr. backpeddle changed his mind again, huh? I'm soooo surprised. nt

[Highway61]

10. Damn LIAR!

Tell the truth..... the $$$$$ was more important

Giuliani failed to show up for a pair of two-day sessions that occurred during his tenure, the sources said - and both times, they conflicted with PAID public appearances shown on his recent financial disclosure. Giuliani quit the group during his busiest stretch in 2006, when he gave 20 speeches in a single month that brought in $1.7 million.

http://truthorlies.org/govtarticle027.html

Stick a fork in him....he's all done...

[Roland99]

11. No, the mistake was getting into politics in the first place!

[Orsino]

12. Typo!

The colon doesn't belong in that title.

[roody]

13. How much money did he collect for

"serving" on the study group?

[Kool Kitty]

14. He's an opportunist and a douche bag.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Floundering

Pathetic

Oh, how I despise that weasel.