Earlier today, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Good Morning America that there were no domestic terrorist attacks in the U.S. under former President George W. Bush. Now, an unidentified spokesman clarifies to ABC what Giuliani meant.
“What [President Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said.
For this to be true, Giuliani — who based much of his run for president on his leadership during the 9/11 aftermath — would have to be discounting the late 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and the attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid, not to mention 9/11 itself.
But the spokesman said Giuliani was “clearly talking post-9/11 with regards to Islamic terrorist attacks on our soil.”
And the “one under Obama” he was referring to was not the Christmas Day bomber, but the shootings at Fort Hood.
