http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200704/POL200 70426c.html Dems: Giuliani 'Failed to Prepare NYC' for Second Trade Center Attack By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 26, 2007
With the presidential campaign starting earlier than ever, so are the cross-party attacks on candidates. The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday took aim at former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, calling him "arrogant" and attacking what some consider to be his strongest political asset -- his national security credentials. How dare Giuliani suggest that Democrats are weak on national security, the Democratic National Committee wondered, when he "failed to prepare New York City for the second attack on the World Trade Center." The DNC was reacting to Giuliani's comments in New Hampshire on Tuesday, when he said Republicans would take the offense on terrorism threats, while "Democrats want to put us back on defense." The comments drew a sharp response from the DNC, whose job it is to turn the perceived strengths of Republican candidates into weaknesses. "Rudy's arrogance has gotten the best of him," said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. She faulted then-Mayor Giuliani for putting his emergency command center in the "vulnerable" World Trade Center; and for failing to implement a "clear chain of command" for emergency workers after the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. The DNC also accused Giuliani of blindly supporting President Bush's Iraq policy - and being unable to say if the troop surge is working. Moreover, Giuliani said he didn't know whether Iran or North Korea was further along in the development of nuclear weapons. "How can the man who failed to prepare New York City for a second attack after the first one, quit the 9/11 commission because he was too busy raking in money from sketchy business deals, can't assess if the surge is working or if Iran and North Korea have nuclear weapons, claim that he will keep America safe?" But Giuliani stood by his comments Wednesday, saying Democrats "do not seem to get the fact that there are people, terrorists in this world, really dangerous people that want to come here and kill us." Speaking on the Sean Hannity show, Giuliani said Democrats "want to take us back to not being as alert, which to me will just extend this war much, much longer." For the record, the Democratic National Committee wants voters to think of Republican Mitt Romney as a "smooth-talking" flip-flopper who will say anything to get elected; and it says Sen. John McCain, who officially announced his candidacy on Wednesday, is "too old," too close to President Bush, too focused on the Iraq war, and too out of touch with his conservative base to be president. While the Democratic National Committee is quick to attack Republican candidates, the Republican National Committee is bogged down with what it calls a Democratic "fishing expedition." The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating whether White House staffers used RNC email accounts to conduct government business -- to get around a law aimed at preserving White House records. This week, the committee issued a subpoena for the RNC's records. Political analyst Rich Galen has noted that the Republican National Committee is sidetracked and pre-occupied. As he mentioned in his column on Wednesday, "If the Republican apparatus were up and running with any kind of efficiency, the RNC would be demanding of every Democrat in the nation running for (or serving in) any elected office to declare whether or not they agree with Harry Reid," who recently declared the war in Iraq "is lost." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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