IMPORTANT to NOTE! RUDI is a DRAFT DODGER!

[FrenchieCat]

Speaking about terrorism and the Iraq war last week, Giuliani boasted, "It is something I understand better than anyone else running for president."

But it was draft deferments that kept Giuliani, 62, out of Vietnam while he attended law school.

He was granted a 2-A occupational deferment for his job as a law clerk in 1969 after his boss, the late Manhattan federal Judge Lloyd MacMahon, wrote a letter to the local draft board - a move criticized years later as rare and questionable.

Law clerks were not on the 1968 list of critical jobs that qualified for occupational deferments.

When the deferment expired in 1970, Giuliani became susceptible again - but lucked out with such a high draft number that it would have been unnecessary to attempt to continue his exemption. He was never called.

Giuliani "has made it clear that if he had been called up, he would have served," Giuliani spokeswoman Katie Levinson told New York magazine. He was opposed to the war in Vietnam on "strategic and tactical" grounds," she added, although she wouldn't offer specifics.

"Voters will choose the next commander-in-chief based on their whole record, and we believe the mayor's record speaks for itself." :rofl:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04152007/news/regionalnews/rudy_is_chilled_by_draft_regionalnews_cathy_burke.htm

from the same article......
"If Giuliani is the nominee, we're going to hammer him with ads, and it's going to be easy because the issue is simple: He's a draft dodger," Jon Soltz, an Iraq vet who served as a captain and runs VoteVets.org

"Giuliani gets a zero-zero," added Gen. Wesley Clark, an adviser to the group. "He wasn't willing to risk his life for his country, and he has no relevant experience that's in any way useful to be commander-in-chief. He hosted the U.N. and had a large police force."

[whistle]

1. ...and a cross-dresser

[FrenchieCat]

2. Awe shit.....He's in sooper real deep doo-doo then!

[Catshrink]

4. Meet Miss 9/11

By Gregorian



original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x908820

[whistle]

5. Oh Jesus H. Christ that looks like Ann Coulter's adams apple

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Sure is. Check out a couple of fine photos of him...REAL pics.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x913141

[Monkeyman]

3. Rudy Rudy While We Bled you hid oh my

:hide: :rofl:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. Junior went AWOL and it didn't matter a bit to the republicks.

Their priority is to be the party of the rich and the powerful and to be able to build the military from the poor and lower middle classes, especially if they can do it with ethnic americans. When the pictures of fallen soldiers appear on the local news, it's harder to relate if the faces are of a different color than theirs.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. That seems to be par for the course for most Repukes...

[FrenchieCat]

9. Yep......but when Rudi said this.....

"Speaking about terrorism and the Iraq war last week, Giuliani boasted, "It is something I understand better than anyone else running for president."

We must remind all as to what Rudi really did when the nation called on him; not where he just happened to have been when shit hit the fan down the road at some point!

[BrklynLiberal]

10. AND he was a LOUSY Mayor. 9/11 saved his hairy ass!!!!!

[FrenchieCat]

12. Yuk!

Guliani's behind!
http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/upload/2006/10/Time%20Elephant's%20Ass.jpg

[BrklynLiberal]

21. rotflmao...

[Cameron27]

11. And *the hero* profited big time from 911:

snip: "Giuliani's report provides the first detailed picture of his vast holdings and income since his term as mayor of New York ended more than five years ago. Since then, Giuliani parlayed his image as an in-charge mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks into lucrative speaking fees and business enterprises.

He reported $13 million to $45 million in assets, including his share in Giuliani & Co., a partnership that provides an array of consulting services. He also listed income from dividends and interest on many of those investments of at least $411,332 and as much as $3.3 million."


http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2518

[Vinca]

13. Why would Rudy understand Iraq and terrorism better than anyone else?

Apparently he didn't do anything prior to 9/11 (except put the command center in one of the towers) and after the attacks he walked and walked and walked and walked and walked. And while he was walking, the rescuers were dying because their radios would not communicate with one another. Good planning, Rudy.

[erpowers]

14. Right On

I have been thinking and saying the same thing for a while. I was planning on posting just about the same thing, but you posted it before me. I just do not see why so many people call Guiliani a hero and say he showed leadership. All I say him doing was walking and talking. I never understood how that was heroic. In addition, I have for some time thought that some of the problems on that day happened because Guiliani did not listen and did not plan. I have read that Guiliani was told not to put his command center in the towers in that it could be attacked by terrorist and Guiliani did that anyway. Guiliani also knew that firefighters needed new or better radio to communicate when things happened.

[blm]

24. Gee - you think Rudy read The New War? You know - the 1997 book that warned

of the growing global terrorism and how terrorists are being illegally funded through international institutions and financiers?

The one written by JOHN KERRY.

[FatDave]

15. So?

Haven't we proven that republicans don't give a damn about their candidates draft dodging?

[knight_of_the_star]

16. And he's bald

Honestly, when was the last time we had a president that was bald?

[Mend]

17. Keith O. said last night they can now grow hair on rats....there's a plan.

[knight_of_the_star]

23. Please apologize for the implied insult

Honestly, putting Guiliani in the same category as rats is insulting to rodentkind.

[TexasLawyer]

18. If he "had been called up, he would have served"...

yeah, shuuuuuuuuuuure!:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

[Supersedeas]

19. great -- another disgusting chickenhawk eager to commission troops into service for the Oil Industry

[UrbScotty]

20. Well the Mayor's record sure does speak for itself (nt)

[kskiska]

22. And his wife is a puppy killer

[kath]

25. An occupational deferment for being a LAW CLERK?!?!

Jeebus. H. Christ.

[FrenchieCat]

26. They are really continuing to sell us the "Rudi is a hero" schtick! Now he's Ike!

Unbelievable!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3289296&mesg_id=3289296

[AX10]

27. Rudy knows how to hold press conferences. That is enough for...

Republicans when it comes to national security experience.

[FrenchieCat]

28. Hehe!

I'm telling you, we live in a parallel universe. In the Real universe, Wes Clark beat Bush mightily in 2004, the Iraq war is over, we are normalizing relations with Iran, and Darfur genocide is old news as we speak.

[Totally Committed]

29. Looks GREAT in drag, though....

TC