two articles on Giuliani blaming the troops for missing explosives

[donsu]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410280003

In falsely accusing Senator John Kerry of denigrating American troops, it is in fact conservatives themselves -- including one of Bush-Cheney '04's most vocal campaigners -- who are suggesting that soldiers on the ground are responsible for explosives going missing in Iraq. On FOX News Channel, both Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham claimed that it was the soldiers -- not President George W. Bush -- who decided not to search for the explosives. And on NBC's Today, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, an active Bush campaigner, placed the "actual responsibility" squarely on the troops.

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From the October 28 edition of NBC's Today:

GIULIANI: The president was cautious. The president was prudent. The president did what a commander in chief should do. And no matter how much you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?
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http://www.democrats.com/

SHOCKING! Bush Surrogate Giuliani Blames the Troops

Reuters: " Kerry of a rush to judgment without knowing the facts. Kerry 'the Bush standard Mr. President, I agree with you. George Bush jumped to conclusions about 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. George Bush jumped to conclusions about weapons of mass destruction and he rushed to war without a plan for the peace,' Bush 'not only jumped to conclusions, he ignored the facts.' ormer New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... one day after Republicans said Kerry was blaming the troops 'No matter how you try and blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops who were there' on NBC's 'Today' show. Kerry's running mate, Sen. John Edwards, blasted the comment and said 'our men and women in uniform did their job. George Bush didn't do his job.'" Who jumps to conclusions and blames the troops? The unfit flip-flopping Bush Team!

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=942538&tw=wn_wire_story

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Democrats attacked former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has been campaigning with Bush, for blaming U.S. troops for the missing explosives one day after Republicans said Kerry was blaming the troops.

"No matter how you try and blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops who were there. Did they search carefully enough?" Giuliani said on NBC's "Today" show.

Kerry's running mate, Sen. John Edwards, blasted the comment and said "our men and women in uniform did their job. George Bush didn't do his job."
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someone should slap creep Giuliani's mouth

women know what a creep he is

[Philostopher]

1. I don't think Giuliani served in the military.

If he had, he'd understand that there's a little thing called the Chain Of Command that you don't f*ck with. Which is to say, if nobody told these folks to do that, of course they didn't -- they're there to follow orders, and they're told to assume if something seems wrong, somebody overhead knows something you don't. We saw what happens to soldiers who don't follow orders even when the orders seem wrong -- they arrest them and put them in detention!

Asshat.