Posted on 11/22/2004 11:05:11 AM PST by mhking
Riiiight.
Look at the Lewinsky scandal, not the fact that Clinton declined to apprehend bin Laden when he was #$%^ing OFFERED to us.
That has to be the most convoluted anti-war "explanation" I have ever heard.
These people must stay up nights trying to outdo one another.
This article has reached the pinnacle of IDIOCY! There are so many things wrong with this guy's thinking that I hopelessly fail to find a place to start.
A "President Gore" would have dithered, obfuscated and obsessed over how it was all our fault to have angered those sweet, freedom-loving Al Qaeda fellows, and done absolutely nothing in Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere else after Sept. 11. Under "President Gore," I believe, there would have been many more such attacks on American soil.
What if.......?
What if Dole had been elected?
What if the Barbery Coast Pirates won?
What if the Crusades were a failure?
What if Spain told the Italian kid to go get his own boat back in 1491?
What if Albert Einstein was aborted?
What if JimRob opened a night club instead of an internet Forum?
What if I married my high school sweet heart?
Well he convinced me. Everything is Clinton's fault.
I've noticed during the course of many, if not all the, time, when the democrats mention this, they almost always fail to mention their little part in it--the DUI. Sure, Gore won the popular vote even *with* all that "heavy baggage," but those on the other side who constantly proclaim this don't like to mention the only way they did it was with the dirty trick they pulled.
And I really like how some dems deride W's victory as being so narrow, *only* 3+ million vote difference. Someone tell me how Gore's 500K+ popular vote is something to constantly hoot about, but 3+ million isn't?
"Any questions?"
Yes, why does he blame poor Monica, Clintoon had two years to act after the first bombing of the Trade Center. There is no reason to be so sure Gore would have acted similarly to Bush rather than more like Clinton did. Year after year, attack after attack, before and after Monica Lewinsky.
Maybe 9/11 changed everything, maybe George W. Bush did. There's got to be a reason that Rudy Giuliani actually said in the maelstrom of the morning of 9/11 "Thank God Bush is in the White House" and why I myself said during those same hours "There'll never be a democrat in the White House again, not in my lifetime". I really don't think that was just party boosting going through our minds. It was the knowledge that something HAD changed and the Bush could be counted on to take the danger to our country seriously, something no dem. president ever has or ever could. At least not any one since LBJ.
From what this television guest said, there was apparently a message delivered to a Middle East media outlet (maybe al-Jazeeera) after Clinton tried to divert attention from his legal troubles by launching missile attacks against Iraq and Afghanistan. The message was supposedly from one of Osama bin Laden's close confidants, informing the U.S. that bin Laden had survived the attack, and that "al-Qaeda's war against the United States has begun."
This was one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever seen, and the lack of any subsequent discussion of this subject has left me baffled.
Dude, it's like, if a butterfly had spread its wings in China in 1952, then, like, maybe Ralph Nader would be president right now.
Yeahhh...deep.
Second, while a President Gore would certainly have gone after Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the wake of Sept. 11
Certainly, my ass.
Al Gore would have wet his pants watching the towers fall.
Then he would have immediately asked the UN to impose some economic sanctions on the Taliban.
When they turned him down, he would have suggested we just bury the dead and try not to piss anybody else off.
On the other hand, Iraq would be out from under U.N. sanctions; it would be the new heidi hole for AQ; Lybia would be subcontracting nuclear work for Saddam; North Korea and Iran would be building nukes without effective opposition.
911 was in planning for at least three years, probably more. The next big one might have taken more years to plan, but it would have decapitated the U.S.
No one can say that we will never be hit, but you can't say we didn't try to stop it.
Al Gore ran twice for president. The first time, in 1988, he didn't even make it out of the primaries. The second time, in 2000, he ran as the incumbent vice president and heir apparent to "one of our greatest presidents", in a good economy, with the country at peace, running against a Republican nominee with a fraction of his experience, and still couldn't pull out a clear win (and on the only measure that matters, didn't pull it out at all). Enough said.
...well, except for this:
Just damn.
Thank God we have a President who is changing the course of world events instead of letting that third catagory (an accident? Riiight) direct them!
So, I take it you only FReep during the day?!? LOL
This guy is still on drugs. Algore would have gone and bitched to the UN, that's all he would have done.
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