And he held little back in his piercing attack on the powers that be, noting that ocean testing for radiation exposure to marine life has been limited and that the fall harvest season of radiated rice will create "havoc".
Another Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry, also turned up in Des Moines on Monday morning, offering his own speech and a piercing attack on Howard Dean.
Former President Bill Clinton opened the Democratic National Convention on Monday with a systematic challenge to President Bush's leadership, using humor and a piercing attack to argue that Mr. Bush had unraveled a prosperous and well-respected nation that Mr. Clinton left him four years ago.
But the 12 months leading to Mr. Giuliani's departure are as instructive today as they were riveting then: a blistering year of mental gamesmanship, piercing attacks, contrasts in personalities and positions, and blunders, played out by two outsize political figures in a super-heated atmosphere.
In retrospect, The New York Times would write that the battle so far between the two had comprised "a blistering year of mental gamesmanship, piercing attacks, contrasts in personalities and positions, and blunders, played out by two outsize political figures in a super-heated atmosphere".
This armor-piercing attack is game-changing in two ways: Traditional antibiotics leave the cell wall and membrane of bugs largely undamaged, giving them a chance to evolve and become drug resistant.
This production does not rank among its best, short on creative theater, long on harangue, less pointed and piercing in its attack on perceived ills than frustrated by them.
By contrast, the purer, Delta-rooted style of Muddy Waters, with its piercing slide-guitar attack, while exalted by critics and musicians for its energy and authenticity, had a narrower appeal.
To them, the Sarah Palin who, at 44, bursts onto the stage at rallies — confident, feisty, piercing in her attacks — sounds nothing like the younger woman they recall.
Clips from racy WWE segments have served as piercing ammunition for political attack ads against McMahon in the past.
But he was also guilty of squandering the clearest of several other try-scoring chances, as the Tigers' enterprising attack pierced the Hull KR defence at regular intervals, but too often took the wrong option.
