Giuliani has made a rather strange and obvious mistake. The former Mayor of New York City Mayor blurted out the following nonsense at a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

If a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001… Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!

Not only was the Republican administration on the defense waiting for attack in 2001, but their actions literally lowered the security of the country by ignoring warnings and only accepting information based on a slimy system of political allegiance and favoritism.

Giuliani really tried to drive home a similarly divisive view:

“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.�

Actually, none of the measures after 9/11 have been proven effective or even necessary to protect the Americans from harm. Quite the contrary, a drop in intelligence capability after Bush and Cheney came to office opened the path for attacks. Simply putting the pre-Bush collaboration and intelligence communities back together after the attack (by virtue of unified effort due to disaster response) was sufficient to prevent another attack. In other words, had Bush not been in office, it is unlikely the attacks would have been successful.