Giuliani admits he would have politicized the Iraq Study Group

GOP presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani cared more about attending paid speaking engagements than serving out his tenure as a member of the Iraq Study Group.  That's right -- the former New York City mayor was actually an original member of the Iraq Study Group.  But after being a no-show for two of its meetings, and deciding instead to give paid speeches elsewhere, he quit the group.

If you think this underscores his lack of leadership, what was even worse was Giuliani's explanation for stepping down:

Giuliani said the main reason he quit was that it "didn't seem that Iwould really be able to keep the thing focused on a bipartisan,nonpolitical resolution."

So in other words, Giuliani is admitting that he would have let political calculation impact the findings of what was meant to be a fact-based document about the most pressing issue facing our country.

And this guy thinks he should be our next president?  What is to stop him from choosing political expediency over realism when he is in office?

As Rudy always says, it's all about trusting your leaders:

Freedom is about authority.  Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.

But what then happens if our leaders use that authority to mislead people and politicize the truth?

Comments

[PBH]

Rudy Giuliani or Vampire?

[Sean]

"Freedom is about Authority"... I've seen something like that somewhere before....