France24 TV – 2 July 2014
Rudi Giuliani – Former New York City Mayor: I think this is a direct result of our pulling out of Iraq, pulling out of Afghanistan, pulling our forces back… We have been warning the Obama administration on about this for 3 years. We have been telling them about this for three years that Maliki is a traitor, works for Iran, do not allow this man to continue, and if you want to know why there is a civil war in Iraq, just look at all the Sunnis that Maliki killed. What does he think they were going to do while he was killing them, while he was trying to imprison the vice president of Iraq who was dually elected in order to have a joint government, Shiite, Sunni…
France 24 TV: So what do you do?
Rudi Giuliani: You get rid of them. You put tremendous amount of pressure on them. No aid, no help, no assistance.
France 24 TV: Even at a critical moment like this?
Rudi Giuliani: Even at a critical moment like this you get rid of Maliki. To keep Maliki there means we are not going to solve this problem. All were going to do is to continue to turn Iraq over to Iran, and the United States and the world should not get their eye off the ball. Sure this is about Syria. Yes its about Iraq. Its really about Iran. The reason for all of these problems, including Hezbollah being supported, is the government of Iran. There is no one that will dispute this. It’s the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Well that should have consequences. The consequences should be isolated by the world, and I think these negotiations we are conducting are a farce…
The world community for ten years has been trying to prevent Iran from having any kind of nuclear capacity because they can’t be trusted to have it, and there is no reason for the peaceful use of nuclear power in Iran It is energy rich. That’s a total joke.