Last week Giuliani made the news for not bothering to attend and finally leaving his position on the Iraq Study Group. It was an excellent opportunity for him to try and gain some foreign policy cred that he has nothing of. Instead, he goes around talking a lot like George Bush with ignorance and bluster. His excuse seemed rather lame and it seems there's a reason why. It wasn't true.
From ThinkProgress:
Earlier this week, Newsday reported that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani quit the Iraq Study Group after co-chairman James Baker offered “him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit.” Giuliani had failed to show up for a single meeting during the two months he was a member of the commission.
In response to the story, Giuliani said he left the group because he “didn’t want the group’s work to become a political football” for his nascent presidential campaign, a claim that has been thoroughly debunked.
On Meet The Press this morning, host Tim Russert offered more evidence that politics was not an issue in Giuliani’s decision to leave the ISG. “Several commission members have said to me that presidential politics never entered the discussion,” said Russert. “It was all about Giuliani’s schedule and commitments versus showing up for the Iraq Study Group.”
This evidence backs up the notion that Giuliani really cares nothing about national security and only focuses on having the power of the Presidency. He would rather make money and play politics than try to find a solution to one of the nation's biggest problems since Vietnam. If America is looking for more greed and corruption, Rudy is your man. If the people want a President to lead our country out of the mess we are in, choose someone else.
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