Giuliani says he faced same health risks as workers on 9/11

[The Straight Story]

Giuliani says he faced same health risks as workers on 9/11

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he had exposed himself to the same health risks as workers at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spent as much time at the site as those involved in the recovery.

The former New York mayor has faced criticism from relatives of some of the firefighters killed at the World Trade Center, who have contended that Giuliani was woefully unprepared for 9/11.

Last month, the parents and siblings of some of the 343 firefighters killed in the terrorist attacks released a video with the International Association of Fire Fighters, which opposes Giuliani's candidacy.

Campaigning in Ohio, Giuliani defended his work, including raising funds.

"This is not a mayor or a governor or a president who's sitting in an ivory tower," he said. "I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them."

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[Stargazer99]

1. the sob forgets he Has medical insurance and probably

damn good insurance. I have no sympathy for him.

[tularetom]

2. I'm almost biting my tongue off trying to avoid saying

what I'm really thinking. Many of those emergency workers have gotten sick and some have even died. That's all I'm gonna say.

[frylock]

13. i'm a little less subtle when it comes to such matters..

crawl under a rock and die already, ghouliani.

[stillcool]

3. Nothing like adding a little fuel....

to the fire. I don't know how some of these people survive saying shit like this without getting their ass kicked. I wouldn't have made it out of adolescence.

[AlCzervik]

4. oh horseshit.

[alstephenson]

5. What an asshole.

[global1]

6. Then We Should Demand A Complete Physical Check Of Him As.....

a candidate for president. He shouldn't be running for the office and wasting time and money if he has some affliction suffered as a result of his exposure to the WTC rubble. Chances are if he does have some malady from this - he won't be healthy enough to withstand the rigors of the presidency.

We should make sure now - before he wastes more time and money.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Spent as much time at the site as those involved in the recovery?

Which people involved in the recovery is he talking about? The ones that were always with him at all times or the real people involved in the recovery day in day out?

[Harper_is_Bush]

8. I think he just sunk his own boat.

How hard will it be to find NYFD who know Giuliani was not at the site as much as them, or doing the same work as them?

Not very.

[jazzjunkysue]

15. Bye Bye, Rudi. Murikkans don't like that kind of talk. They know better.

It's called Blowback, and it's a bitch.
:hi:

[Harper_is_Bush]

17. self delete

[skids]

9. That's what you get for putting your command center in WT7

...dumbass.

(Though he's of course lying through his dentures.)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. Really! He was working pulling out bodies for days on end?

I don't THINK so.

[wicket]

11. Oh Rudy, get off your fucking cross

DISGUSTING. :grr:

[tabasco]

12. Sure Rudy. And Bill O'Reilly was in combat.

Republicans lie when telling the truth would be easier.

[wicket]

14. Has O'Lielly ever been confronted about that stupid, blatant lie?

n/t

[undeterred]

16. Well, then maybe he won't be around for 5 more years.

:shrug:

[NYC Liberal]

18. At least he doesn't have to go to Cuba to get decent health care.

At least he can afford it if he DID get sick.

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. How many months was he down there digging out bodies? Let me guess

ZERO.

What an asinine thing to say! The NERVE of that rat bastard.

My G-D! They're all alike! Self-centered, insensitive, narcissistic, assholes!

Man, I detest these people so much. I cannot wait until I don't have to hear their lies anymore. I have had more than my fill of their crap.

[glitch]

33. I don't think they have any idea how not to be assholes.

They couldn't not be assholes even if they tried. Not that they ever would try, they are incapable of thinking of trying not to be assholes.

I bet all their brains look like swiss cheese, whether from Lyme or Mad Cow. Whatever, they all exhibit a remarkable lack of normal human function.

[fujiyama]

20. These guys are amazingly arrogant

What, between this and Romney's "my sons are saving the US by voting for me...'

[Bluebear]

21. Swoon. My hero. nt

[KitchenWitch]

22. In my hand is the world's tiniest violin, playing, "My heart bleeds for Rudy"!

:eyes:

[Kool Kitty]

25. I think this is what you're looking for:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: What a lying asshole. He spent as much time there as the workers? Bullshit. I can't wait to hear the reaction from the ill and dying workers and their families.

[KitchenWitch]

27. Those violins are too large!

:eyes:

The man has some nerve comparing his exposure to those that spend hundreds to thousands of hours there, cleaning up.

[Kool Kitty]

28. Really, how can he claim such a thing?

Does he think that no one will dispute this? These people lie and lie and lie and lie.....And newswhores like Chris Matthews swallow all this shit without question. "America's Mayor", my fat ass. Un-friggin-believable.

[KitchenWitch]

23. Oh, and Kick, and second Rec!

:hi:

[marmar]

24. This man is truly pathetic....

How low can he sink?

[lovuian]

26. Guliani Sucks I made a video Dust to Dust 911 Haunts Rudy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1B2WBD-F-7I

[uppityperson]

29. 1 more recommend and off to greatest page for all to see.

My response to Rudi: bullshit

[BlueStater]

30. Then I guess he's not healthy enough to run for president and should drop out n/t

[KitchenWitch]

32. That'd be the day!

:eyes:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

34. Yes... Old Rudy is sick!!! ...Sick, I tell ya!!

As my mom would say, "Sick in the head".

[Rex]

31. Only a ghoul makes fun of the dead like that.

I guess he is getting jealous of Rummy's bodycount. Vampires.

[LeftishBrit]

35. Seriously?

If so, he needs to get to a doctor fast.

What a hypocrite he is.

[moondust]

36. Another shameless Repo.

The audacity of these clowns never ceases to amaze.

Rudy now claims he lived on the pile and Mitwit's boys are bravely serving the country by driving around Iowa in an air-conditioned campaign bus. Jeezus.

[Maraya1969]

37. Oh he was at ground zero as often or more than the workers?

The ones that spent weeks digging for survivors and then bodies? The ones covered in white powder as they maneuvered around the wreckage?

Go back to bed Rudy.