Rudy Giuliani became an instant hero, standing outside of the burning towers next to his unequipped corrupt lapdog, Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik: His best friend – the guy he embarrassed himself for, by recommending him to head up our Department of Homeland Security. Mayor Rudy and his security detail just stood there on the morning of 9/11 dumbfounded, watching the towers burn; and he was lauded for his bravery and leadership. Meanwhile, he was standing outside because his damn office was on fire. If you showed up for work one day and your building was on fire, and a crowd was standing around, you would probably just join them and stand there, watching the building burn, just as Giuliani did. That’s fine. He’s only human.



But nobody anywhere can explain why his office was in there: why Giuliani put his emergency management command center – his bunker - in the biggest terrorist target in the country, after it was already bombed in the ‘90s and a vow was made by terrorists that they would bring those towers down. It’s one of life’s great eternal mysteries, like the evolutionary process that produced the sawfish and the narwhal.

But Rudy Giuliani has since made a career and a fortune from his alleged expertise: the self-defense chops of a mugging victim. The most dumbfounding thing he ever did, after making his career, and literally billions of dollars, exploiting the attacks and the fear, was to appear in an interview and attempt to revise history by claiming there was never even one attack on Bush’s watch! Giuliani is a liar: an opportunistic, offensive liar.

My own 9/11 memory was getting my car repaired in Queens, about 15 miles from the WTC, while my wife was in a taxi on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge, as the first plane hit. Her taxi turned right around and brought her to her mom's house in Brooklyn. Thankfully, she hadn't gotten to work yet, as her building was three blocks from the WTC. Also thankfully, she didn't have to walk 15 miles home from the city. My sister was in SOHO, and witnessed the planes actually hitting the buildings with her daughter by her side.

I still remember it was New York City Marathon Sunday, so it was about two months after the attacks; and walking around Pace University, about 7 or 8 blocks away from Ground Zero, I walked by a store window and noticed some spots on my nose. I found I had grey ashes all over my face. Ashes of people. How can anyone politicize that and make money off of it, and lie about it...and be human?