Giuliani Tells It Like It Is

Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.

The truth is rather tough to swallow sometimes, but the fact is that Democrats would indeed return to the "defensive" stance of fighting terrorism and we would continue to be vulnerable to attacks. I disagree with a lot of things Mr. Giuliani stands for, but this one is dead on.

“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”

He added: “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.”

It's high time we took the fight to those who want to fight. Let them know that Navy SEALS might one day kick down their door and capture or kill them. Let them live in fear that a Tomahawk cruise missile might come in through their front window. Let them know what it's like to be hunted. Then, and only then, will they begin to think twice about attacking Americans.

If militants want to attack us for our support of Israel, does that mean that Iran is fair game for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah? Does that mean that the Palestinian government is now fair game? Does that mean that the Palestinian people are fair game because they elected Hamas to be their government? Does that mean we can slam commercial aircraft into their mosques and shopping malls? Does that mean that we can kidnap Iranians and saw their heads off on camera with full color and sound? Now all of a sudden it seems a bit more personal to them if we ever grabbed someone off the streets and butchered them like cattle just to send a message to them.

But we don't do that. We're better then that. We don't cut heads off of people and send tapes out to the media. We don't hijack aircraft and slam them into buildings. If we took the gloves off in a spectacular way like that, you can bet that the rules of the game would change completely.

But Democrats don't see it that way. They see it as "we're attacked, let's go get those that attacked us". They never want to be proactive about it and go after people who are planning to attack us or who are in foreign countries and they don't want to have an international incident because we went in to go get them.

Mr. Giuliani's right, a Democratic President would make this country less safe. His stock went up in my book a couple of points for this.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com