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Giuliani Rips Congress for Iraq Resoution

February 13, 2007 6:43 PM

ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: On Sean Hannity's radio program, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani R-N.Y., hammered congressional Democrats and their Republican allies for pushing the non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq saying that the American people did not elect lawmakers "to do non-binding resolutions."

Giuliani, who hopes to capture the 2008 Republican nomination for president, described the debate over the resolution as nothing but a "comment," and dared member of Congress who oppose the Iraq war to "step up and take some risk."

"With so much at stake for our country I find a non-binding resolution very disappointing," he said.

As he has done on many instances, the former mayor stressed his support of President Bush's handling of Iraq and the war on terrorism. "(Iraq) is a very very critical part of our being able to defeat terrorism, " he said. "We have to give ourselves every chance to have victory in Iraq."

For Giuliani, who is celebrated for his response to the 9-11 terrorist attacks while mayor of New York, the path to the Republican nomination may come down to whether or not he can allay conservative concerns about his moderate position on abortion, gun control and gay rights. Giuliani told Hannity that back in the 1980s he helped President Ronald Reagan pick judges, and that as president he would appoint judges who are "strict constructionists."

Giuliani explained that he favors "reasonable regulation" of guns but wants states to decided how much gun control is appropriate. "The best system is a system in which you allow state to do what they need to do, " Giuliani said.

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