Rudy Giuliani: 'We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We've Had One Under Obama'

Rudy Giuliani has joined fellow Republicans Dana Perino and Mary Matalin in seeming to forget that the September 11th attacks happened under President Bush.

On "Good Morning America" Friday, the former New York mayor declared, "We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we've had one under Obama."

Not only does the statement suggest Giuliani does not remember the devastating attack in his own city, it also omits the anthrax attacks and the attempted shoe bomber attack.

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"Um, really?" wrote ABC News reporter Rick Klein on Twitter. Later he added, "even if Rudy MEANT to say post-9/11, what makes this incident different than [shoe bomber] Richard Reid, I wonder?" Of course, Giuliani could have been referring to the Fort Hood shootings rather than the botched underwear bombing.

A day earlier, Giuliani falsely claimed that the shoe bomber attack occurred before September 11th.

Curiously, the Associated Press did a long write-up of Giuliani's Obama criticisms but omitted the startling mistake. George Stephanopoulos, who conducted the ABC interview, included the quote in a blog post but did not question it.

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Comments

[NHGranite]

06:31 PM on 02/07/2010

OMG, you guys, talk me down. What does Giuliani know and when did he know it. So many things out of whack happened on 911. The two largest towers dropped incredibly fast for all the interior supports they had, basically in free fall. Tower 7 was "pulled". Now Giuliani is saying there was NO ATTACK during the Bush Administra­tion. Mary Matalin says the same thing. What if they are not re-writing history at all? The FBI has never put OBL on their most wanted list. Bush even said 6 months later "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

[miriamfl]

04:35 PM on 01/13/2010

Has everyone forgotten the plane that went down on Nov 12, 2001 flight 587 that went down in Queens? It appears to me that it was swept right under the rug. I don't remember any serious investigat­ion or answers to that horrible (accident)­? It was exactly 2 months and 1 day after 911 and lets not forget the anthrax this all happened right after 911. Rudy give me a break!

[james4truth1066]

02:28 PM on 02/18/2010

(Interstin­g Link,)

http://www­.rense.com­/general17­/terrcc.ht­m

[JcFractal]

04:54 PM on 01/12/2010

Giuliani looses credibilit­y with every ridiculous utterance.

[Liberalforsure]

07:35 AM on 01/12/2010

The republican­s 'running' (destroyin­g) this country for the last 8 years was the worst single domestic terrorists attack we will ever have.

[geoteapa]

12:32 AM on 01/12/2010

guilianni,­cheny,bush­es etc are in position to numb the public mind with continuiou­s lies and misinforma­tion. you dont need to be a conspiracy theorist to get the depth of their purpose. my only warning is when you try to talk with persons who hear this garbage as their source of political informatio­n, you can see the fear,resen­tment and disbelief as you rationally (with facts no less) explain what is really happening. i'd love to tell you that these people of power are nothing but thieves and liars but you would have to research that yourself.

[TruthFinderToo]

10:56 AM on 01/11/2010

George should stop. He has no credibilit­y left - he is not a hard interviewe­r, just a man looking to increase his wallet. He, like Fareed Zakaria, have lost their way and have given into the false journalism we call call reporting today. Roger Piles and Murdog have proved mathematic­s correct - everything goes to the lowest common denominato­r.

[BexSF]

10:41 AM on 01/11/2010

Are Republican­s really that stupid or do they think we are?

[American04]

10:28 AM on 01/11/2010

He is a FOOL, he thinks most Amerians are stupid...

[Jonathan Kalla]

08:47 AM on 01/11/2010

What he obviously meant to say was that under Bush - we hadn't been attacked since the last time we were attacked. But that's like an alcoholic saying that he has been sober since his last drink.

[allanpiper]

08:15 AM on 01/11/2010

But Republican­s don't believe New York is part of the "real America," so 9/11 shouldn't count.

[Australian2]

07:14 AM on 01/11/2010

Per politifact­.com:

http://pol­itifact.co­m/truth-o-­meter/stat­ements/201­0/jan/08/r­udy-giulia­ni/giulian­i-says-the­re-were-no­-domestic-­attacks-du­rin/

Evne post-9/11, there were quite a few.

Typical Rethuglica­n revisionis­m.

[ivanh3]

06:21 AM on 01/11/2010

This is just standard procedure for the right wing. Just repeat something often enough, make it a talking point, and the Fox news demographi­c will chime right in: "That's right! No domestic attacks under ol' iron fist GWB!".

[barrycourage]

03:53 AM on 01/11/2010

He obviously meant "post-9/11­."

Slow news day.

[allanpiper]

08:17 AM on 01/11/2010

So what if he did mean post 9/11? That's like saying Mark Sanford is a loyal, faithful husband, except for that mistress in Argentina.

[barrycourage]

09:03 PM on 01/11/2010

The article focuses on the quote instead of all of what he said.

I did not address, nor do I agree with, Giuliani's mental machinatio­ns.

[lj50307]

01:38 AM on 01/11/2010

and a lot under Clinton

[Billy Harston]

08:47 AM on 01/11/2010

4 attacks under President William Jefferson Clinton(19­93, 1995 1998 and 2000). 1 under President George Walker Bush (2001). Who did you feel safer under?

[lj50307]

10:42 PM on 01/11/2010

Bush

[Mona Holmes-Nisker]

02:38 PM on 01/12/2010

Aren't you forgetting about the shoe bomber?

[lj50307]

01:38 AM on 01/11/2010

We had 2 under Bush and 2 under Obama.

[billw8017]

03:40 AM on 01/11/2010

Definition is everything­. Last year, hundreds of Americans died untimely through no fault of their own in violent acts that are reasonably called terroristi­c. We pick and choose, offering up hysterical defenses against the most unlikely terrorist assaults until you can hardly steal the lotions and shampoos from your hotel and pass through an airport. Towels, I guess are OK -- until somebody weaves one from a plastic explosive!

I understand the terrorist list has half a million names, practicall­y the same as a big city phone book. The late Senator Kennedy had to motor from Massachuse­tts because his name got on the list. I don't like nihilism, but I'm not that impressed either.

[kfreed]

06:41 AM on 01/11/2010

Only the most horrific terrorist attack in U.S. history happened during the reign of Bush Jr. but whose counting?