What did Giuliani do to earn the reputation of Mr. 9/11 besides be mayor during the attack?

Question

After the first WTC attack in the 90s, he had the brilliant idea to move their emergency coordination headquarters to WTC building 7--which collapsed on 9/11.

When he was on the Iraq Study Group, whose recommendations might reduce attacks on our troops, he didn't bother to show up for meetings. Why should we expect any better of him if he's elected president?

Netjr,

Go ask the firemen what they think of him. Like Bush, he likes to pose for pictures with them, but not take care of them.

Answer 1

he has done one heck of a snowjob.
We are to believe that he will be a good president? Because he will be on offense and the Dems will be on defense? He is a one trick pony who is hoping to use fearmongering to his advantage. Okay so, he took over NYC in 1994, he had 7 years to get prepared considering NYC had had an attack in 1993. Well guess what, he was provided recommendations as to how to best prepare the city in the event of another attack on the WTC. At the time of the second bombing and ultimate destruction of the twin towers MOST of the recommendations were NOT implemented, yet he was heralded as this great mayor. People do your homework, don't believe the hype.
Also listen to how he treated the fire fighters after 9/11, especially from the President of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
People have that memorable image-Rudy among the ruins- this hides a multitude of sins: in the event of a terrorist attack, Giuliani should have been directing police, fire and emergency services from the city's high-tech underground emergency management center; unfortunately, Giuliani had insisted that that secure center be located at the World Trade Center along with a diesel fuel truck which was against the advise of FDNY as well as the FBI. The faulty radios were the target of years of scathing internal assessments, bureaucratic wrangling, and accusations of bidding favoritism, and still the Giuliani administration had never replaced them. The buck stops with Rudy, who knew that the same radios had faltered when the World Trade Center was first bombed by terrorists in 1993, the year he was elected mayor.
During the attacks, because the command center was rendered inoperable, NYC had no clear chain of command and no physical command structure in place to coordinate the emergency response. Frankly, the whole reason Giuliani was on television all day and available for interviews was because he was scrambling around the streets trying to set up a command post since the one he had designed and located was paralyzed during the attacks.
Political infighting between police and fire departments went unchecked, preventing coordination between first responders, and Giuliani's rush to return New York to business as usual (fearing that Wall Street might relocate) may have seriously impaired the health of returning workers and residents. The New York City government now estimates that 43,000 people have significant 9/11-related health problems
How can we continue to treat this man as a hero when firefighters were looking for their brethren and he said no and took some of the debris which contained bodies to fix holes in the streets of New York, ( I am not making this up). He was more concerned about getting the gold and silver bullion for the Corporations that he was about getting the bodies of the real heroes of 9/11, the firefighters and police officers that went into those buildings. Giuliani also made a conscious decision to institute a “scoop-and-dump” operation to expedite the clean-up of Ground Zero in lieu of the more time-consuming, but respectful, process of carefully removing debris in hope of uncovering more remains
Excerpt from a letter from the IAFF President
"The real reason was that the Bank of Nova Scotia's assets were buried in that rubble, the day they got those assets out of that pile, Rudy shut the pile down, said 'everybody off, we're going to full scoop and dump'... It was gold, it was silver, it was other assets, I've seen a lot of numbers too, I don't have an exact one so I don't wanna give it to you... Our firefighters were on the pile helping excavate the gold as well, our problem is that all Rudy cared about at the end of the day was the gold bricks, not the lives and the memories of those that were the true heroes that day."
At the time, in November 2001, it was reported that $200 million in gold bullion has been recovered from the site. One day later around 50% of firefighters were removed from the job and totally denied access.
Mayor Giuliani’s actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like so much garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill."

Answer 2

He's called Mr. 9/11 for the calm leadership he showed during that time. Compare that to the finger pointing and hysteria coming from Mayor Nagle in 2005--they aren't calling him Mr. Katrina.

As for the decision to put emergency coordination in bldg 7--no one did, or could have, predicted the extensive damage that was caused on 9/11.

If you think a president, or any major leader, attends every meeting of everything that falls under their area of responsibility, you are naive as to how representative government works.

I have not decided who will get my vote, but I will base on my decision on more than a single issue or event. I hope you do the same.

Answer 3

I give Guiliani a lot of credit for sticking around on 9/11 and not running and hiding like Bush/Cheney did (especially since neither of them was in any danger).

But sticking around and being visible during the attack does not make him Presidential material. He really only has 1 thing to run on, his record on 9/11. Which is why you will always try to see him steer whatever question asked of him, back toward 9/11.

Answer 4

Yes, and no he does not. Just bluster and excessive predictions approximately what is going to occur if God forbid a Democrat will get into the White House. Yawn.... If he will get the nomination it is going to get intriguing despite the fact that. The firefighters from New York will crusade rough towards him and convey to mild all of the criticisms they have got closer to him over nine/eleven. They do not rather see him because the hero of nine/eleven like such a lot of others who have no idea larger. The dangerous information is that who does not appreciate the reviews of firefighters, and the primary responders from nine/eleven? Rudy larger watch out, he'll get twisted up in his possess internet.

Answer 5

He made sure that all of the evidence was properly disposed of (sold to China) so that a proper inverstigation of the attacks could not be conducted. Whatta guy. Go USA!!!

Answer 6

thats all he's ever done-----he was just there thats all

going to funerals doesn't make you a leader

too bad he didn't take the protection of the country seriously enough to participate in the Iraq Study Group, instead he was busy making $150,000 speeches at colleges, that had to hurt the terrorists.

Answer 7

Absolutely nothing to me. I'm voting for Fred Thompson, at least he's a real conservative.

Answer 8

Maybe you should have spent the following 10 days going from funeral to funeral of his fireman, policemen and citizens. It might have changed your opinion about things too.

Answer 9

It was the way he handled it. He put the people first.

Answer 10

isn't that enough??