On a conference all with reporters just now, Rudy Giuliani said there was one thing about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring terror suspects to New York City he could stand fully behind.
"I was glad to see Holder say 'we're at war,'" Giuliani said on the RNC-sponsored call. "I had thought we had virtually stopped being at war with the terrorists."
The former New York City mayor was referring to Friday's press conference by Holder where he announced the plan to try terrorists in the city.
Giuliani said he hoped the use of the word would hearken back to a return to the Bush era "War On Terror" which Giuliani said President Obama has abandoned, both in rhetoric and actions. "I was under the impression that the Obama administration thought this was just an unfortunate situation we're dealing with."
"'War' is important," he said.
Giuliani reiterated his opposition to bringing terror trials to Manhattan, which he said would put a city already in constant danger of terror attack at greater risk. He said the city is "ready" to host the trial, but said it would also incur "enormous expense" providing increased security around the high-profile legal proceedings.
New York "is already a primary target," he said. "There's no reason to add to the risk."
Echoing Republican rhetoric since the New York trials were announced, Giuliani called on Holder to try the terror suspects in military tribunals on the Guantanamo Bay naval base, where the suspects are being held.

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LindyLou
November 18, 2009 12:19 PM
Danger, danger, danger. Fear, fear, fear. The "terrists" are out to get us...fear, fear, fear. I wish Rudy and the rest of the Repubs using this meme would think about how cowardly they sound. Aren't we the land of the free and home of the brave?????
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NancyNYC
November 18, 2009 9:07 PM in reply to LindyLou
A. Terror attack at trial for KSM.
B. Terror attack against the rebuilt World Trade Center (WTC).
Which of the above is more likely. My bet would be B, but as far as I know every opponent (including Giuliani) of trying KSM in NYC is in favor of rebuilding the WTC. I work a few blocks from Ground Zero and like most New Yorkers I try to take a stoic attitude towards any future attacks but I would have to think twice about working in the new WTC (if it ever gets built). Rebuilding the WTC is not crucial to American values but the rule of law is.
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Michael A
November 18, 2009 12:21 PM
Sicko. I'm not glad to be at war. Who were the last criminals that were war happy? Oh, that's right the Nazis. How can anybody say that these fools are not like the Nazis. Look at the extremely vocal minority tea baggers. Employing Gobbels propoganda by repeating the same lies over and over again. Same Nazi tactics being employed 70 years later.
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Willow
November 18, 2009 12:23 PM
"glad that we're at war"
That basically sums up the GOP perfectly.
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Lestatdelc
November 18, 2009 12:27 PM
Why does anyone care what this has-been GOP hack has to say about anything?
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The Decider
November 18, 2009 12:42 PM
I too am quite relieved to know that we are still at war. If we were not at war it would mean that the terrorists would have won because they are still terrorizing out there. We do not fear them, but we should remain ever vigilent because vigilence is the price of freedom and we can't be free unless we are vigils. I think that's how it goes. God bless America!!
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LeeJo
November 18, 2009 12:45 PM
If it is Rudy it is, "...a noun, a verb, and 9/11." He can not live without his war. The rest of the world can however.
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tonigo
November 18, 2009 1:42 PM in reply to LeeJo
9/11 was the best thing to ever happen to Rudy Giuliani's political career. On Sept 10th, 2001 he was in the midst of a divorce after accusations of adultery, which scuttled his hopes of a Senate seat and his approval ratings as mayor of NYC were in the toilet. His perceived actions during 9/11 changed all that (and only because Bush was nowhere to be found).
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pppwww
November 18, 2009 12:52 PM
rudy's consulting firm is glad to see we're at war again
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john
November 18, 2009 12:55 PM
Serious question...Are we legally at war? Did Congress pass a Declaration of War? I can't remember...too lazy to research...
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Winston Smith
November 18, 2009 12:59 PM
Well, I guess that makes Obama a "war president" whom it is unpatriotic not to support. I'm sure Rudy added, "I support our president and our troops."
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roxanne
November 18, 2009 1:03 PM
Adulterer! Failed presidential candidate and ugly little dwarft....DROP DEAD! Your all to eagerness to once again exploit 9/11 is really a disgrace! Shouldn't you be cheating on your fugy wife? Oh, and how are your kids? I understand they still aren't talking to you?
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Aljstl
November 18, 2009 1:09 PM
Giuliani wasn't worried about the "enormous expense" for the security detail that was shuffling him and his mistress off to their secret trysts.
I can understand why the media keeps putting a microphone in front of these discredited people who were wrong on every policy they tried to implement-we like to watch car wrecks. What I don't understand is why anyone would take them seriously.
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rbe1
November 18, 2009 1:37 PM
Is there someplace we can store this dipshit for a while ?
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Redshift
November 18, 2009 1:57 PM
So Rudy doesn't think terrorism is important unless we call it war?
Another key wingnut characteristic: how you talk about things is much more important than what you do about them. Useful for covering up how incompetent they are at "doing"...
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LeeJo
November 18, 2009 3:14 PM
If it is Rudy, it is,"...a noun, a verb and 9/11." That is all the there that is there with Rudy.
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georgeconk
November 18, 2009 3:18 PM
I thought we were supposed to "smoke them out and bring them to justice". I guess that meant frontier justice - on the Pakistan/Afghanistan frontier.
But the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States calls for trial "by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed". That would be New York City. That's genuine American justice - for which Giuliani, et al. have now developed a distaste since it is Obama & Co. who are bringing the terrorists to justice, which Bush, Cheney & Co. failed to do.
For more check out Otherwise: www.blackstonetoday.blogpsot.com
- GWC
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