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Giuliani: I shouldn't have joined Iraq Study Group

Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday it was a
mistake for him to join the Iraq Study Group, on which he lasted just two months
and failed to show up for any official meetings, the
Associated Press writes.

As AP notes:

The former New York mayor has tried to tamp down criticism in recent days
after Newsday reported (here,
on Tuesday) that Giuliani was a no-show for two of the group's meetings
and instead attended paid public appearances.

"I thought it would work, but then after a month or two I realized the
idea that I was possibly going to run for president would be inconsistent with
that," Giuliani said during a campaign stop in Iowa.

Giuliani's aides had also
told Newsday that he didn't want to politicize the study group. The
newspaper noted, though, that "Giuliani himself did not cite his concern about
politicizing the group in his May 2006 resignation letter to Republican
co-chairman James Baker, which offered only his 'previous time commitments' as a
reason."

Posted by Mark Memmott at 09:19 AM/ET,
June 21, 2007 in Iraq war, Presidential
race, 2008, Republicans
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