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Tom – Dedham, Mass ..

The terrorism issue was flogged to death in previous Democratic debates, and since their views probably haven't changed on the subject, why have them repeat themselves?

I, personally, refuse to live my life in fear – especially if it will only serve to get a republican elected.

Again.

We know what happened last time that stuff worked. We got four more years of King George.

As Patrick Henry put it: "Give me liberty or give me death!"

Perhaps Rudy should be answering a different question, like ...

Why do the firefighters hate him?

Where were the radios they needed during the 911 evacuation attempt that could have save dozens of their lives?

Or why the hell did he insist on putting the Emergency Control center IN THE TOWERS that had already been attacked previously – after being told that a more remote Brooklyn location was safer?

Funny how when you check the blogs, everyone ELSE supports Rudy – except for the people who actually LIVED IN NYC during his watch.

They tend to dislike the guy intensely.

If you ignore it and die, nothing else will really matter, will it?

I care about many other issues as well, but two biggies that got scant coverage (also ILLEGAL immigration) are in the top 5 don't you think.

Wouldn't want to put them on the spot, eh CNN?

Let's just ignore it, they will go away once Hillary takes office, because we will be so loved again.

Tom – Dedham, Mass ... there's other issues important to the American people besides the "fear will get us reelected" campaign motto over and over again like a skipping record.

FEAR wont work THIS time buddy!

Naivity is definitely a curse to our country. Why else would we be in such a mess now. We have a president that used 911 as a catalyst to go to an unnecessary war in Iraq when the real terrorist threat has always been in Afghanistan. Are we any safer now under the Republican rule of threat? Has Osama bin Laden been taken care of? Or have we been weakened by the present government? I am very discouraged to hear this fear mongering still present when it obviously lead our country astray with GW, Cheney, Rumsfield, Rove, Libby, Wolfowitz, etc. (you need to look up the ties these men had before 911, Project for a New American Century). Let's not be naive and willingly fall into fear leading again. Let's know what these men stand for. If Guiliani were a "safer" more terrorism informed person, maybe things would be different in NYC today. And I think it's about time we focus on our needs as a country and not fund all of our dollars overseas for a war we simply cannot win. I fear what fear can do to lead our country...I agree that it's too Hitler!

Liberals call it fear mongering, the rest of us call it reality.

This issue is a litle more important than Obama trying shove sex education down my 6 year olds throat.

No fan of Rudy and I DO NOT support him, but he asks a valid question.

I watched the debate, and I don't remember any questions about terrorism. Maybe they should have worked it in on their answers to the question from the snowman, or the guy with the gun...

Hey, Joe from Detroit...where did you get the 98% of terrorists are Muslim data? Since you say that it's a fact, I assume that you can point me to your source?

Thanks.

Personally I don't find Guiliani a good candidate. That said, he brings up a very valid point of contention.

The Democratic candidates have said much of their opposition to the war but have been silent on their views as to handle the threat of terrorism. This is like saying nothing of the Cold War in the election of 1980.

The growing threat of terrorism by Islamic fascists has been growing steadily since the 1960s. Sept 11th wasn't the debutants ball for these militants. The Western world had decided to ignore this terrorism and it didn't stop. So what are they to do but ramp up their activities?

First it was hijacking planes and demanding prisoners to be released. Then killing Oylmpic athletes. Then blowing up airplanes with missles. Then using homicide bombers in markets. Then blowing up whole buildings, attacking tourists, military ships, and discoteques. And we did nothing. So they used hijacked planes and crashed them into buildings. Luckily we stopped a plot to down a number of airliners over the Pacific Ocean.

Oh, but all these series of events are not important enough to capture our attention? Would Sept 11th be the last attack by Islamic fascists?

Doing nothing is a stance, but its not an answer.

9/11/01 was the best thing that ever happened to this fear-monger, and I find his milking the issue disgusting!

Whether your Repub or Dem Dont be Naive enough to say that Islamic terrorism does not exsist, 98% of terrorist are Muslim, thats a fact, Does that Mean all Muslims are terrorist? no but it does mean most terrorist are Islamic. Jihad does have a religion and the Terrorist have declared Jihad agaisnt the US

Its one thing to constantly harp on terrorism and quite another to ignore the issue completely. He raises a valid point, effectively dealing with the terrorist threat is one of the most important issues facing us today. I'm very discouraged that the democrats completely ignored the issue.

“I am becoming increasingly concerned that the Democrats don’t mention the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ during their debates,”

Judy; could it be that AMERICA as a whole is tired of you and “W” spouting the same old crap. Domestic terrorism such as deceit, lies and abuse of power are what AMERICA fears far more than anything. You and “W” keep linking Iraq and 9/11 which is an absolute lie. Yes; AL Qaeda is now in Iraq thanks to “W”, however they account for about 1 percent of the bastards that fight our troops and foreign fighters make up another ½ percent.Our troops are being killed by the Iraqi civil war!

“WE THE PEOPLE”

because we all are tired of republicans scaring the american public from this so called terrorist threat and trying to steal the votes. Why don't Giuliani ask himself that howcome NYC and Washington DC vote overwhelmigly democratic while the naive people living below the mason dixon line and Rudy Giuliani are the only ones scared of this "terrorist threat" which they won't even be a target of if it exists. Bombing the whole world in to submission is not going to make us safer. 4 years into this stupid war should make anyone realize that.

Um... The entire SECOND HALF of the debate was about the war in Iraq. And if you listen to the conservatives, like Mr. Giuliani, Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq are one in the same.

I happen to disagree with that characterization of the war, but the Republicans here are trying to have their cake and eat it too.

You can't say that the war in Iraq equals the War on Terrorism out of one side of your mouth and then, out of the other side of your mouth, say that the Democrats didn't discuss terrorism – only the war in Iraq!

Well, you can... But it's dishonest and lame. Good try, Rudy.

One issue Guilini...boring!

One reason might be that the candidates weren't forced to answer carefully crafted questions by political talking heads and others with specific agendas. Instead they were forced to answer, with a palpable lack of comfort at times, questions crafted by real Americans concerning issues that matter to the masses.

No one has forgotten about the terrorist threat, but since that seems to be the only issue Republicans and the White House are usually able to bring up (despite overwhelming data that what they've been doing in the Middle East just isn't working) it was refreshing to hear a candidate put on the spot about any one of a dozen other issues that most Americans struggle with on a daily basis.

I'll be watching the Republican debate coming up and can't wait to see how they handle the same straightforward, and sometimes uncomfortable, questions that YouTube Nation will no doubt have ready to fire as well the "all business" approach of moderator Anderson Cooper who I think did an excellent job of keeping the Dems in line and "on task", so to speak, rarely allowing them to stray in their responses without finally forcing an answer to the original question before moving on.

I hope this format is here to stay!

Is that the ONLY thing Giuliani talks about? Does he realize that there is more to being president than yelling about terrorists? Just shut up Giuliani! The candidate of fear.

I wonder the same thing. It's like their sticking their heads in the sand about it. Shouldn't the voters be informed of how their next president will deal with one of his or her greatest responsibilities – protecting the safety and well-being of American citizens? Guess there are just too many legislators in that field who don't think about the chief executive responsibilities of the president.

Does Rudy have anything else to talk about? He placed the command center at ground zero. I don't think he should campaign on how he wuld keep the country safe, since he could not keep New York safe after 1993. I want to hear about health care, education, student loans, medicare programs; all that have been ignored or cut because of terrorism. I won't vote for any person that campaigns on fear, that's to Hitler.

Guiliani just keeps getting more ridiculous every time he opens his mouth. Islamic terrorism? It seems that he's only trying to incite fear and hatred towards "muslims." Ridiculous. He almost makes me ashamed to be a republican.

Giuliani is a "one trick pony" in this presidential field. All he can do is talk terror to scare up some votes. How long will this shallow candidate continue to lead the Republican field!?

They did not say it because there was no such thing as "Islamic terrorism". Terrorism does not have a religion and no religion including Islam condones terrorism. Must you continue to show your ignorance?

It seems to me that you and Osama Bin Laden must have learned about Islam from the same mullah. I don't expect you to read and understand Qur'an. But at least you should have read the 9-11 report before you challenged Ron Paul!

It's interesting that Guliani, a candidate who has ONE issue and one issue only would express distress that the democratic candidates failed to mention 'islamic terrorism' in their debates. When will the politics of fear run its course? Why is it okay for the Republican candiates to continue to run on a platform of fear and terror without any concern or attention on domestic issues? I am relieved that the Democrats have chosen to focus on politics of change rather than fear. Shame on you Mr. Guliani...it's time to move forward as opposed to living and running on 'glories' long passed.

Giulliani has hitched his tail to a falling star. Buddy no-one is afraid enough of the Huns of any stripe to shake in fear before the hallowed whatever, and sell out their soul.

Perhaps the Democratic candidates don't believe that invading and occupying Islamic countries, or unconstitutional surveillance of citizens, is the best way to defend the homeland against terrorists. As Poppy might say, "wouldn't be prudent."

Because the Democrats don't get it! They childishly ignore proof over and over again. They'll believe in evolution and that they came from apes, but they do not believe what has been demonstrated to them very clearly.

Why? It does not fit into their agenda. It does not suit their play for the presidency.

Rudy should move to Iraq and never be allowed back into the USA.

Rudy Guiliani is shamefully using fear and September 11th as a tactic to get votes. This is typical fear-mongering at its worst. Terrorism is nothing new and it's certainly not going to go away with Guiliani in office. He is a blatanant opportunist getting rich of 9/11, taking in millions in speaking engadgments on the topic, and pretending to be a hero when the real heros died that day, many of which would still be here had Guiliani effectively managed the city's emergency resources prior to and on 9/11. Meanwhile, families and survivors continue to suffer while Rudy fills his pockets with money. Guiliani is a well-known and widely disliked bully who announced the divorce of his wife on television before she even knew. He is a flip-floppping, money-driven opportunist who will use terrorism and fear to weasel his way into the white house, and then make the country even less safe by selling off American security, resources and technology to anyone with a big enough checkbook. He will stand for big corporations and big oil at the expense of working Americans, will drag the Iraq war into more years of blood and loss, and will continue to erase our civil liberties. I hope that voters get the whole story on Rudy Guiliani, especially from the nations firefighters that are outspoken about and against his running for president. American's must see through the lies and spin that will be a product of Guiliani's campaign, thanks in-part to the employment of Karl Rove's henchmen. This country cannot afford to have a person like Rudy Guiliani in the white house, especially after 8 years of George W. Bush.

CNN, never mind. Must have been a glitch in the system.

You censored that?

Rudy still playing 9/11 card!

Mr. Giuliani is on very shaky ground when it comes to talking about terrorism: his Mayoral office misled New Yorkers as to the extreme dangers from the toxic dust fallout from the 9/11 attacks, to the extent that thousands of people are now suffering chronic and severe illnesses, including mesothelial cancers; several hundred have died already, including a number of members of the FDNY and NYPD.

If anything, Giuliani's office's actions have exaggerated the toll of the attacks, and could result in more premature deaths during the coming decade than what happened on the day of 9/11 itself. The dangers from breathing such a dense atmospheric suspension of sub-micron particles of asbestos, PCBs, mercury, lead, cadmium and other toxic elements and compounds were well-known to his office (and other officials), and any action taken by Giuliani and company in lying to, or misleading New Yorkers as to the safety of the air and water should be regarded as criminal negligence and gross dereliction of duty. People should be charged for multiple counts of manslaughter at the very least, and that includes not only Giuliani and his complicit officials, but also parties in the White House (James Connaughton et al) who ordered the EPA to lie about the dust, even altering the scientific data gathered on the toxicity/content of the dust to make the situation appear much safer than in reality.

This issue must be raised by the mainstream media in the coming election campaign, but to date, virtual silence still reigns. If the American public were aware of this scandal to just 5% of the extent they know about, for example, Paris Hilton's antics, Giuliani would never again be regarded as the "hero of the 9/11 attacks, but instead, one of the villains.

It's just a bumper sticker, a slogan to get people to be scared and vote for these mean Republicans that actually want to admit it's reality.

Stop trying to scare people, 9-11 was an inside job, multiple embassy bombings, the first world trade center bombing, USS Cole, Madrid, Scotland, England among others were all just "criminal acts" done by spurrious bad people.

Rudy is a joke. Hey Rudy can you talk about anything other than terror. It seems like thats all he can come up with. Give me a break, this guy is the one who put the security building inside the WTC after the 93 bombing!

Oh yes Rudy, why no terror talk? Why don't they speak about terror on how they let their city get attacked by terrorists, and somehow it makes them eligible for President...oh wait, thats you!

Earth to Rudy: We the People have had enough of the Executive Branch taking away our freedom under the constitution by constantly waving the bloody shirt of "Islamic terrorism." We're perfectly aware that the USA is a magnet for terrorism, but King George, Darth Cheney and Fredo have simply used its existence as a means to get whatever they want, and to smear all who disagree with the label "soft on terrorism."

Since the nation is just as unprepared now as it was on September 10th, 2001, and the Federal government is both unwilling and incapable of doing anything about it, perhaps the questions submitted to the Democratic nominees simply reflect the fact that the country has moved on. We're stuck with the world situation the Bush gang created, and we're just going to have to wait until they're gone before we'll have any chance at change.

We are all quite aware of the terror threat. I tend to doubt the leadership qualities of those who use terrorism to continually frighten the public.

Obviously all intelligent candidates are aware of terrorism. The difference is that the Democrats have more to talk about than the typical fear-mongering of terrorism that Republicans use for votes.
Funny, Republicans come to my beautiful city in almost complete secrecy

That's funny. I'm concerned that Giuliani doesn't mention anything except Islamic terrorism when he speaks.

If this is the only topic that he knows, maybe he'd be better off joining the military rather than leading it as Commander-in-Chief.

Don't you think Rudy's going overboard? a href="http://www.newsgroper.com/rudy-giuliani/2007/07/20/americas-mayor-is-steam-pipe-explosion-free/">News Groper had Rudy sum it up perfectly.

Giuliani wants to another "fear" President. That's the only plan he seems to have – more of the same. We need to go in a different direction and try to reconcile with the rest of the world.

Rudy, I saw you speak at a Town Hall meeting in Savannah and you did not once use the word "Iraq" – isn't that a pretty important topic to this country?

Perhaps the reason is that the Democrats still have the decency not to resolve to scare tactics for constituents' control?

While the security of the country is clearly a very important issue, it should be considered from the point of view of threats from both within and outside.

I doubt anybody in America is going to wave their hands and claim that terrorist threat is not a concern. However, it is not the only issue to consider, and some might say, not the most important, either.

Mr. Giuliani might as well ask CNN why such questions were not presented to the debatees, because it is unlikely that nobody submitted them.

Rudy, no one is listening to your 9/11 speech anymore, give it a rest!!! You just can't debate on any other issues because without 9/11, you wouldn't even be considered a presidential candidate.

Giuliani also seems to forget that last nights Democratic Presidental debates with CNN and You Tube were questions being asked by the American people and those running for President were trying to answer questions that were asked of them by the American people so he needs to stop trying to play politics with fear. I have no respect for Giuliani.

Rudy Giuliani is in no postion to attack anyone. Giuliani should look at his own record, the fact how he flip flops all over the place on abortion. Giuliani also said that he hates abortion yet has made several donations to Planned Parenthood. How can Giuliani say that he hates abortion and then donate to a place that supports it? As far as terrorism goes Giuliani was a failure on 9/11, just look at the complaints from the 9/11 firefighters. Giuliani is trying to play politics by trying to use fear with terrorism in order to gain votes for Republicans but the American people aren't buying it anymore. We already saw the lies about Iraq which had no WMD and had nothing to do with the horrible events of 9/11. I think Giuliani fears Hillary Clinton the most because he knows she will tough on real terror threats and has the experience to know how to properly deal with them. Giuliani isn't exactly high on the moral list, he has been married and divorced something like 3 times. If Giuliani can't even get things right with his own family and flip flops on abortion then how can he be trusted to be President? The answer is he can't.

It's about the only thing Guiliani can talk about... so he just continues to harp on it... Do you really want a President with such little depth...? And I'm a Republican.

The one hit wonder should worry about his own campaign. Did he realize that last night's debate was driven by the public's response and questions the public was interested?Seems all he can do is create hype around an issue that the public knows about already and are waiting for this Republican administration to provide a coherent, reasonable and thoughtful response to terrorism rather than just scare tactics with words. The Republicans led us into an unnecessary war and now are trying to back track rather than focusing on Afghanistan and Al Queda when they should have...maybe we'd be having a different terrorism discussion had any Republican Senator or Congressional Representative had a back bone...

Here we go again. Giuliani is smart in that he is using the currently successful gameplan of using "scare tactics" to try to sway voters to beleive that he is the only one that can save us from everything. The only problem is that there is a time when you have to realize that only so much can be done about outside factors (terrorism, etc.) and some of that effort should be re-directed to other issues that are just as, if not more important (at least on a daily basis), to citizens such as health care, education, family, economy, etc.

If saying that no one mentioned "islmic terrorism" is the only negative he has regarding the respective platforms of the democratic candidates, then he might want to consider looking in to some of the other issues beside terrorism

I guess if I was having a problem with my own parties right-wing base, with my multiple marriges, dysfunctional family, my stance on social issues, and my problem with my signature issue as "The Nations Mayor", with my placement of the cities 'Emergency Crisis Center' in the World Trade Center against my own experts advise, and my inability to address the issue of compatible communication sytems after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, I would be looking to make up issues as well. Puh-lease!

Of course Giuliani talked about terrorism...that is all he ever talks about...ever. Please people, don't buy into the one-note, fear-mongering platform.

LOL It's becoming more and more painfully obvious that Julie Annie has NOTHING but 9/11 to run off of. No substance, just 9/11. The islamofacistterroristkillerdangerousbomberpeople hate our freedumz! Vote for Julie Annie!!

Oh, wait, RON PAUL '08

Why no terror talk? Becuase you weren't there you war-mongering con-man!

Is there a terrorist threat in the world? Yes

Are you prepared to be the President simply because you were near the attacks on 9/11? NO

You are a RAT! You come from a family of RATS! Go away and let us focus on picking a REAL PATRIOT to be or president.

my lord, giuliani is a joke. what have you said about acutal terrorism policy, sir? Nothing, except that we should be scared of it, and that the Democrats will get us all killed.

for a one trick pony, your trick is pretty lame.

Were'nt the conversation topics determined (in part) by those who submitted questions? If we accept that as the case, then should Guiliani not then fault the questioners for raising the spectre of terrorism? THus, given the context of the debate, if there were not any questions asked about terrorism, then a candidate would have to have pushed their answer toward such subject matter. Does Guiliani presume that all candidates must also sing the same note he keeps piping over and over? Can Rudy scare us into voting for him? Is it still 2004? Does he have a stance on anything but "staying on the offensive"?