He's a Freudian Delight, He Crawls With Clues!

Rudy Giuliani is nuts. Absolutely, completley, out-of-his gourd nuts:

"This is the world we live in. It's not this happy, romantic-like world where we'll negotiate with this one, or we'll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we'll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we'll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House," Giuliani said.

"Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball," he added.

Andrew Sullivan calls it "literally insane." But really, it's just par for the course with Rudy.

Giuliani's problem is that he really has no idea what he's talking about, and he's not a pro-life zealot, so he has to ratchet the rhetoric on the GWOT to eleven. And unfortunately, the GOP was already insane on that, so Rudy sounds almost messianic. Look at another quote from his rant:

"Suppose Hillary Clinton and John Edwards' new position was their position back then, that it was a mistake to take him out," Giuliani said, referring to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "Wouldn't we be dealing with Saddam Hussein becoming nuclear right now? If Iran was becoming nuclear what would he be doing? Sitting there letting his arch enemy gain nuclear power over him? Or would we now be dealing with two countries seeking to become nuclear powers."

No. We wouldn't. SADDAM HUSSEIN DIDN'T HAVE A NUCLEAR PROGRAM. He hadn't had one since the mid-nineties. Heck, he couldn't even sustain a chemical weapons program, which is orders of magnitude easier to run. If we'd stayed out of Iraq, they wouldn't have WMDs, and it's entirely possible that Iran would be moving less provocatively because first, the limits of American power would not have been vividly illustrated for them, and second, because they would have a significant deterrent in their quest for regional hegemony, a country called Iraq.

It would be nice if Rudy's insane pronouncements would get the kind of coverage that, say, John Edwards' hair or Hillary Clinton's cleavage got. But I suppose that's asking a lot; after all, it's not like Rudy has a funny laugh. That would be a major story.