Holmes: Giuliani's untold stories

Rudy is like a man with a huge target painted on his back. He is the one last connection to 9/11, still on the political stage for 2008.

It would be true poetic justice if this fraud's candidacy is, finally, the thing that forces this nation to get real about that horrible day.

Not much is as it seems in the empire.

Holmes: Giuliani's untold stories - Milford, MA - The Milford Daily News:

Giuliani has been riding 9/11 ever since, turning his heroic moment first into a lucrative stint in the private sector, then into a presidential bid. But all the ink spent examining that day's events, and all the finger-pointing in Washington, somehow left Giuliani untouched. Giuliani looked so dramatic fleeing from the World Trade Center, as comedian Bill Maher has pointed out, because he made the bone-headed decision to locate the city's emergency command center in New York's highest profile terrorist target.

Equally disturbing - and equally unreported - is Giuliani's failure before 9/11 to put New York's police and fire department on a coordinated radio system. The pre-9/11 failures of the FBI and CIA have been extensively investigated, but Giuliani has gotten a free ride.

Why? Mostly because in our moment of fear and doubt, the nation needed a hero. While the president was hiding on Air Force One, Giuliani was on TV looking calm and brave. George W. Bush showed up a few days later, struck a heroic pose at Ground Zero and rode that image to war and re-election.