Giuliani falsely claims "[w]e had no domestic attacks under Bush"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/research/201001080013

5 hours and 12 minutes ago

On Good Morning America, Rudy Giuliani falsely claimed that "{w}e had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama." In fact, while Giuliani and other conservative media figures have recently downplayed the number of attacks on the United States under former President Bush, there were numerous terrorist attacks attempted during the Bush administration, including the September 11, 2001, attacks, the attempted detonation of an explosive device on an airplane by shoe bomber Richard Reid, and the anthrax attacks.

September 11, 2001 attacks. As CNN noted, "On September 11, 2001, four U.S. planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people in a matter of hours."

2001 anthrax attacks. A March 2004 State Department report on "Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2003" quotes then-Attorney General John Ashcroft saying of the letters containing anthrax mailed to various targets: "When people send anthrax through the mail to hurt people and invoke terror, it's a terrorist act." Five people were killed as a result of those letters in the autumn of 2001.

2001 shoe bomber attempted attack. In June 2008, then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described Reid's December 2001 attempt "to blow up a trans-Atlantic plane with a shoe bomb" as an attempt to "carry out terrorist operations for Al-Qaeda."

2002 attack against El Al ticket counter at LAX. In July 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. A 2004 Justice Department report stated that Hadayet's case had been "officially designated as an act of international terrorism."

2002 DC-area sniper. The state of Virginia indicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad -- along with his accomplice, a minor at the time -- on "an act of terrorism" for one of the murders he committed during a three-week shooting spree across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Muhammad was convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed for the crime.

2006 UNC SUV attack. In March 2006, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV into an area of campus, striking nine pedestrians. According to reports, Taheri-azar said he acted because he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world." Taheri-azar also reportedly stated in a letter: "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11/01 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."

[MadBadger]

1. How the hell can Ghouliani not include the shoe bomber, but include the underwear bomber?

That just is insane.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. By beginning with lots of bullshit.

[Posteritatis]

3. That can't be a real Giuliani quote - the word-to-"9/11" ratio isn't close enough to 50/50 (nt)

[ArmajaDasComatose]

4. Anthrax?

[dkf]

5. They've managed to conveniently forget 9/11

They only want to bring it up to rev up for war. Then they stick it in their back pocket and play amnesiac.

[Obamanaut]

6. TSA, wiretapping, threat level flags, etc. - granted they were all done by

us to us, but they did happen on the * watch.

[jmowreader]

7. Rudy should be so glad I wasn't on GMA with him

Reasoning with someone who would say that is pointless. You need to just slap the dogshit out of them.