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'America's Mayor' Stands Tall for Bush |
'America's Mayor' Stands Tall for Bush
By Bobby Eberle
Talon News
August 31, 2004
NEW YORK (Talon News) -- In what may well be remembered as the speech of his
lifetime, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought cheering
delegates to their feet time after time as he recalled the response of
President George W. Bush to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Following speeches by three survivors of those lost in the 2001 attacks,
Giuliani immediately reminded the crowd of the president's promise to the
terrorists that "they will hear from us" as President Bush stood on the
rubble of the Twin Towers in the day's following September 11, 2001.
"They're hearing from us," said Giuliani. "So long as George Bush is our
president is there any doubt they will continue to hear from us?"
Giuliani didn't shy away from drawing direct comparisons between the
leadership of the president and that of Democratic presidential nominee Sen.
John Kerry, saying, "President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that
it is. John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision."
Giuliani's appearance was panned ahead of time by conservatives who were
disappointed that the party's moderates would hold center stage at the
convention, but the former mayor's discussion of the war on terror could not
be described as anything but tough.
Although most Americans now see very limited images of the horrors of 9/11
in the mass media, Giuliani recalled his own memories of seeing "the flames
of hell and then realizing that I was actually seeing a man, a human being
jumping from the 101st or 102nd floor," of the north tower of the World
Trade Center on that fateful day in 2001.
Saying that at the time he believed America would be attacked many more
times, Giuliani recalled, "Spontaneously, I grabbed the arm of then Police
Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, 'Thank God, George Bush is
our president.' And I say it again tonight, 'Thank God George Bush is our
president.'"
The former mayor of NYC has often been referred to as "America's mayor"
since his heroic leadership of a stricken city during the months following
the attack and how highly he is regarded was evident in the reactions of the
Republican delegates who came to their feet for him time after time.
Approval of his theme was certainly not universal however, with Democrats
leveling charges of "politicizing a tragedy" and using "September 11 as a
political ploy."
An unfazed Giuliani promised earlier on Monday that his party would not be
"intimidated by the Democrats into not talking about September 11."
True to his word, criticism did not stop him from recalling the world's
reaction to terrorism in the almost 30 years preceding the September 2001
attacks, first mentioning the 1972 attacks on Olympic athletes in Munich.
"The three surviving terrorists were arrested and within two months released
by the German government," Giuliani stated to loud boos from the crowd.
Relating several acts of terrorism that followed Munich Giuliani said,
"Terrorists learned they could intimidate the world community and too often
the response, particularly in Europe, was accommodation, appeasement and
compromise."
Terrorist acts became a ticket to the international bargaining table," said
the former mayor. "How else to explain Yasser Arafat winning the Nobel Peace
Prize when he was supporting a terrorist plague in the Middle East that
undermined any chance of peace?"
"President Bush decided that we could no longer be just on defense against
global terrorism but we must also be on offense," Giuliani said, reminding
the Republican delegates of the Bush doctrine, "Our war on terror begins
with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. Either you are with us or you are
with the terrorists."
"In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a
conservative or liberal. We choose a leader," Giuliani said, reminding
Americans that in perilous times "Americans should put leadership at the
core of their decision."
Giuliani compared the leadership qualities of George Bush to those of
Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan.
But he was far less admiring of the Democratic nominee John Kerry saying the
senator, "has no such clear, precise and consistent vision."
Giuliani went through a litany of the many changing positions that Kerry has
held on issues ranging from war in Iraq and his lack of financial support
for the troops there to his various positions on Israeli/Palestinian issues.
In one of the lighter moments in his speech Giuliani said, "Maybe this
explains John Edwards' need for two Americas - - one where John Kerry can
vote for something and another where he can vote against the same thing."
Giuliani recalled a number of incidents that took place during the
president's first visit to NYC following 9/11 from a huge construction
worker who swept the president up into his arms, much to the chagrin of the
Secret Service, to the president's visits with the families of firefighters
and police lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
The mayor stated his unqualified support for removing Saddam Hussein from
power in Iraq because Hussein "was himself a weapon of mass destruction."
Giuliani assured delegates, saying, "President Bush is the leader we need
for the next four years because he sees beyond today and tomorrow. He has a
vision of a peaceful Middle East and, therefore, a safer world. We will see
an end to global terrorism. I can see it. I believe it. I know it will
happen."
The mayor ended by invoking the memory of those who fell on September 11,
2001 and those who have fallen in the effort to defeat terrorism by saying,
"We will say to them we have done all that we could with our lives that were
spared to make your sacrifices build a world of real peace and true
freedom."
"God bless each one we have lost, here and abroad, and their families. God
bless all those defending our freedom. God bless America," said Giuliani.
--
Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.
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01 Sep 2004 06:11:17 AM |
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Are they Fair and Balanced?
They can't decide.
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