Issa: “We should thank” Giuliani for questioning Obama’s patriotism http://t.co/TaFSLb8vII

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“The reality is that Rudy has taken our debate — and I think we should thank him for this part of it — back to national security, to the key element that the president should be focusing on,” Issa said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He needs to call it Islamic terrorism. He can’t be looking at everything through the vision that somehow that if you treat people better or more democratic, you’re not going to have terrorism.”

Note this is from a man whose party spent the better part of the previous decade arguing that the best way to combat terrorism was bring democracy and “freedom” to the Middle East.