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Giuliani Ad Uses Iranian Hostage Crisis To Illustrate How To Handle Terror
December 05, 2007 10:43 AM
ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: Rudy Giuliani released his fourth television ad Wednesday morning using Iran to how punch home his message on how to handle today's terrorism challenges. Invoking Ronald Reagan, Giuliani warns voters that a certain mindset is needed defeat those who threaten the United States and that he has it.
Entitled "One Hour," the former New York City Mayor and Reagan justice official steals a page from his stump speech and uses the Iranian hostage crisis of the late 70's and early 80's to illustrate how he would approach dealing with "tyrants and terrorists."
Using black and white stock footage of those Americans that were held by the Iranians for 444 days, Giuliani reminds viewers that they were released within one hour, the hour in which Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.
While not saying it outright in the ad, Giuliani notes that the terrorists understood that his former boss was not going to handle the ongoing crisis as his predecessor Jimmy Carter had.
When Giuliani has given this history lesson on the campaign trail, he has noted that the Iranians looked into the eyes of Ronald Reagan and they knew that his leadership was not something they wanted to be confronted with, insinuating that some of today's Democrats may also not hold the correct point of view to defeat terrorists.
"The best way you deal with dictators, the best way you deal with tyrants and terrorists, you stand up to them. You don't back down," Giuliani says in the ad.
As with all his past television ads, "One Hour" will air exclusively in New Hampshire and the Boston television markets.
December 5, 2007 in Dodd, Chris, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (8)
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Yeah Reagan gave Iran terrorists weapons for those hostages... real brite! I'm a New Yorker, Guliani is full of ... all he did during the terrorist attacks were a bunch of photo opts
Posted by: Squierghia74 | Dec 5, 2007 12:07:23 PM
Does Giuliani REALLY want to bring people's minds back to the Iranamok crisis? The Iranians 'looked into Reagan's eyes' and saw a sucker, then got weapons galore from him. There are those among the lunatic right-wing fringe who claim that we have been 'at war with Iran for 40 years,' in which case, Reagan committed treason with his weapons dealing.
Of course, since that 'war' was not declared, ol' Ronnie and his minions get off scot free. Nonetheless, claiming to use Reagan's approach to Iran hardly speaks of a reasonable mindset.
It sounds like campaign double-talk to me. Oh, that's right... it is.
Ed
Posted by: Ed Drone | Dec 5, 2007 12:25:26 PM
um the deal to release the hostages was one that had been worked on for months prior to ronnie-irangate-reagan took office. I'll grant the man did a lot decent things as president but he was also the one who helped finance and and authorized the training of Osama Bin Laden and he also helped put Saddam Hussein in power so maybe just a little quick on the draw to canonize ronnie.
Posted by: Louis | Dec 5, 2007 12:44:07 PM
G.H.W. Bush and his Iran/Contra drug-runners are traitors? Is that what you are getting at, Rudy? Brave man.
Posted by: Ollie | Dec 5, 2007 1:05:51 PM
Did Rudy serve in the armed services? Not that it matters, or does it? We currently have two chicken hawks for a president & VP and look what that got us.....War & Destruction! Killing of innocent lives, and talk of WWIII. They say that terrorists are chomping at the bit to kill an American, so why don't Rudy and all the other chicken hawks go to some deserted Island and shout out, "come and get us you terrorist", instead of sending other men & women to fight for them?
Posted by: robert | Dec 5, 2007 5:24:28 PM
"The best way you deal with dictators, the best way you deal with tyrants and terrorists, you stand up to them. You don't back down," Giuliani says in the ad. Guiliani is 100% right, that is exactly why the Muslim world is beginning to stand up against George Bush and his murderous and oppressive foreign policy.
Posted by: ML | Dec 6, 2007 9:31:29 AM
I live in the Boston area and have gotten in the habit of changing the channel whenever this commercial comes on. How could anyone appear in and approve an ad like “One Hour” that appears to give Ronald Reagan and his staff full credit for getting the Iranian hostages released on January 20, 1981. Since another ad states that Giuliani was part of that administration, he should know full well that it was Jimmy Carter's team that negotiated the release and that the process began before the elections were held. According to his biography, Giuliani wasn’t even in Washington DC during the crisis. Instead he was in private practice in New York from 1977-1981.
I may have been 10 years-old when the hostages were released, but my Dad’s tradition was that our family watched the local and national news every night after dinner, so I do remember the facts. However, many of my generation and most of those younger than me do not. I refuse to vote for another candidate who is willing to manipulate the public by rewriting history and take credit for the accomplishments of others to make themselves, their ideas, or their associates appear better than they really are.
Posted by: jp | Dec 11, 2007 8:21:38 AM
well diden't he still get the OUT?
YES!
if it was a democrat it woulda took years
Posted by: marc | Jan 9, 2009 12:32:20 AM
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