On the radio a little earlier:

MAYOR GIULIANI: Well, I was quite impressed with General Petreaus’ testimony and Ambassador Crocker. I’m an admirer of General Petreaus. I think he’s taken a very difficult situation, he’s moved it in a direction in which we are now seeing, you know, some significant success. Although there are also a long way to go. But, gosh, this is a very difficult situation you can’t expect the man to have turned this around completely in five or six months. I think he has been put through some horrible attacks. I think Moveon.org trying to, you know, equate his name with betrayal, is one of the more disgusting things that has happened in American politics. And I think the failure of the Democratic candidates to really condemn that, given how much money Moveon.org spends on behalf of Democratic candidates, which is millions if not hundreds of millions, is really, I really think it’s very, very unfortunate. And also, they sort of play into it. Hillary Clinton said yesterday, ‘I think,’ said to General Petraeus, ‘I think the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.’ I don’t know what she’s trying to say when she’s accusing a general of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief.’”
HOST 1: “She’s trying to tell us that she knows more about the whole situation than he does.”
GIULIANI: “Doesn’t it also sound like she’s also saying that he isn’t telling the truth?”
HOST 2: “It does, and I think he handled himself well, I think he presented his case very well.”
GIULIANI: “Oh gosh, I think that between him and Hillary Clinton, I’d kind of take his advice on what’s going on in Iraq, don’t you think? And I really do think to accuse a general of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief,’ particular in the atmosphere that Moveon.org has created with these terrible attacks, I don’t know, I mean I think that’s not the way in a responsible way to go about , you know, forging the foreign policy of the United States and the military policy of the United States. I think this name calling, you know, saying to people, ‘willing suspension of disbelief,’ and then saying the horrible thing they said about betrayal–that is the last thing we need right now. What we need right now is a reasoned account, we need statesmanship not political venom.” (“The Randy and Spiff Show,” Atlanta, GA, 9/12/07)