Giuliani tried to conflate the Virginia Tech shootings with 9/11.

[milkyway]

As the bushies did with Saddam and 9/11, last week in his Oklahoma City speech Giuliani tried to roll up the Virginia Tech shootings, Oklahoma City, 9/11 (and by inference Iraq) into one big package.

From the New York Daily News:

U.S. must hit back, Rudy sez
He links Oklahoma City, 9/11, Virginia in call to better detect 'warning signs'

BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Friday, April 20th 2007, 4:00 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY - Drawing a direct line from the bombing here in 1995 to Al Qaeda's twin tower attacks in 2001 to this week's mass shooting at Virginia Tech, Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that America must respond aggressively to avoid future acts of terror.
Standing on the site of what was once the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the presidential hopeful said the nation needs to do a better job of detecting the "warning signs" of attacks against Americans - whether from foreign or domestic terrorists or criminals.
"What the terrorists have to know - what the criminals have to know - is that if you attack any one of us, any one city, any one college, you attack all of us," the former mayor said to some 500 observers at the placid memorial to those who died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by American Timothy McVeigh.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/04/20/2007-04-20_us_must_hit_back_rudy_sez-3.html


He also said during the same speech:

“We owe to those we lost at Virginia Tech or to those that we lost here and on Sept. 11 that we will do everything we can to prevent future attacks.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18196001/

It takes an incredible amount of nerve to imply to a nation still grieving from the Virginia Tech tragedy that those shootings are why we are in Iraq (and why we need to elect him President). I have not been able to find the complete text of his remarks, but it certainly seems clear that he is saying we owe it to the Virginia Tech victims (and Oklahoma CIty and 9/11 victims also) that we do everything we can to prevent future attacks like these by following his plan to go on "offense" and escalate the war in Iraq.


Then to top it off, he actually said this:
"Today is not a day for politics, I am not here for a political purpose," he said after his speech and after spending 40 minutes at the memorial posing for pictures and signing autographs.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/04/20/2007-04-20_us_must_hit_back_rudy_sez-3.html

[waiting for hope]

1. Are McCain and Rudy just insane?

All I can say is, keep it up....this will ensure a 2008 Dem win.

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. LOL, I was just thinking that they drink from...............

the same water bottle.
Maybe it's some sort of republican psychosis.

[AlCzervik]

2. there is a special place in hell for Guiliani and his sycophants.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. "..if you attack any one of us, any one city, any one college, you attack all of us." Kind of

how I feel about Bush and New Orleans. When did Rudy drink all the kool aid?

[Oilwellian]

5. For Pete's Sake...

and to think we have to listen to this shit for the next two years.

[magellan]

6. I'd remind the Puppy-Killer-Lover that both events happened on the Repub's watch

...and that most Americans are sick of Repub terror-terror-terror tactics to win votes...Except that he's doing such a good job of hosing himself and the GOP I'm hoping he keeps up his insane bs. lol

[milkyway]

7. kick.

[uppityperson]

8. Iran, N.Korea, Iraq, trifecta of terror? Yup. All related to 9/11 and VTech murders.

:sarcasm: Keep talking Rudi. Keep talking.