Our next President is going to have to sort out a lot of the damage to our country from the Bush Administration. Ultimately the voters are going to have to make a choice about not only who is going to restore our economy and credibility around the world, but if that man or woman wants to walk down that road in the first place. Rudy Giuliani is not that man. The example here refers to our global credibility. The adviser behind Giuliani is neo-con Norman Podhoretz and a definite sign that not only will Rudy maintain Bush's course, he'll swing it further from the realm of reality.
From Commentary Magazine:
But I entertain an even darker suspicion. It is that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again. This time the purpose is to head off the possibility that the President may order air strikes on the Iranian nuclear installations. As the intelligence community must know, if he were to do so, it would be as a last resort, only after it had become undeniable that neither negotiations nor sanctions could prevent Iran from getting the bomb, and only after being convinced that it was very close to succeeding. How better, then, to stop Bush in his tracks than by telling him and the world that such pressures have already been effective and that keeping them up could well bring about “a halt to Iran’s entire nuclear weapons program”—especially if the negotiations and sanctions were combined with a goodly dose of appeasement or, in the NIE’s own euphemistic formulation, “with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals for regional influence in other ways.”
If he thinks the intelligence community is out to get Bush, who knows how far this man's paranoia reaches. See Norman, the intelligence agencies in our country are looking for the truth of what is going on in the world in regards to our interests.
Our interests do not include the politics of fear, that is what George Bush and Rudy Giuliani hope to play on. Scholars and Rogues has a more in-depth analysis here.
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