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Putting a new twist on the old saying, “shoot first, ask questions later”, the new republican motto is, “send people into harm’s way first, ask questions…never”.
In the days immediately following 9/11 Giuliani was repeatedly warned by the EPA that the air at Ground Zero was unsafe to breathe. Giuliani repeatedly ignored the warnings.
An examination of Mr. Giuliani’s handling of the extraordinary recovery operation during his last months in office shows that he seized control and largely limited the influence of experienced federal agencies. In doing that, according to some experts and many of those who worked in the trade center’s ruins, Mr. Giuliani might have allowed his sense of purpose to trump caution in the rush to prove that his city was not crippled by the attack.
Administration documents and thousands of pages of legal testimony filed in a lawsuit against New York City, along with more than two dozen interviews with people involved in the events of the last four months of Mr. Giuliani’s administration, show that while the city had a safety plan for workers, it never meaningfully enforced federal requirements that those at the site wear respirators.
At the same time, the administration warned companies working on the pile that they would face penalties or be fired if work slowed. And according to public hearing transcripts and unpublished administration records, officials also on some occasions gave flawed public representations of the nature of the health threat, even as they privately worried about exposure to lawsuits by sickened workers.
Well I’m convinced. Bush and Giuliani are willing to ignore warnings, subvert facts and throw your ass in harms way if they feel like it somehow adds to their legacy. Somehow it’s not surprising that despite all that we know about his decisions after 9/11 and the suffering that is a direct result of his decisions, he is somehow still the leading candidate the republicans have to offer up in ‘08 so far.
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