Rudy Giuliani<\/a>: Urban Legend”–it mentions Giuliani’s foolishness in locating his mayoral “Command Center” in WTC 7–destroyed on 9\/11\/01 and forcing him to go operate out in the street (while running away from the danger).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Tom Moody: You might have noticed the CBS News story “McCain Backs Bush’s Iraq Strategy” on the blogroll to the left for several months now (or maybe not–well, it’s been there). 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