MSNBC: "Giuliani’s team includes a prominent neocon who advocates bombing Iran as soon as possible"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Mideast hawks help to develop Giuliani policy
Team includes Podhoretz, Pipes and Rubin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21464055/

By Michael Cooper and Marc Santora
Updated: 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s approach to foreign policy shares with other Republican presidential candidates an aggressive posture toward terrorism, a commitment to strengthening the military and disdain for the United Nations.

But in developing his views, Mr. Giuliani is consulting with, among others, a particularly hawkish group of advisers and neoconservative thinkers.

Their positions have been criticized by Democrats as irresponsible and applauded by some conservatives as appropriately tough, while raising questions about how closely aligned Mr. Giuliani’s thinking is with theirs.

Mr. Giuliani’s team includes Norman Podhoretz, a prominent neoconservative who advocates bombing Iran “as soon as it is logistically possible”; Daniel Pipes, the director of the Middle East Forum, who has called for profiling Muslims at airports and scrutinizing American Muslims in law enforcement, the military and the diplomatic corps; and Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who has written in favor of revoking the United States’ ban on assassination.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Thank god someone in the MSM is picking this issue up

Thank talking points memo for hammering away at this.

[fightindonkey]

2. And It Also Contains A Pedophile Preist And A Crossdresser

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Bombing Iran would only help Giuliani's candidacy as he could capitalize

on his advisors being "experts" on domination of Iran as compared to the other republican candidates and the democratic nominee. He would put himself out as the only one to orchestrate and prosecute the new war.