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Gore Rips Bush On Storm Response (this is news??)
AOL News ^ | 9/10/05

Posted on 09/10/2005 8:50:45 AM PDT by NRA1995

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 9) - Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

In the speech, Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly "when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck."

Bush administration officials have said Katrina's damage could not have been anticipated, but Gore rejected that.

"What happened was not only knowable, it was known in advance, in great and painstaking detail," Gore told the Sierra Club's national convention. "They did tabletop planning exercises. They identified exactly what the scientific evidence showed would take place."


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To: Ann Archy

I'd venture to guess that it'd be fun to dig into the *real* story behind this mission. ;-)


41 posted on 09/10/2005 9:40:23 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: NRA1995
I wonder if Gore has the b@ll5 to challenge Hillary for the Dim nomination in '08.

I'd love to see those two square off in a catfight.

Gore's probably too scared to even try it.

42 posted on 09/10/2005 9:43:30 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("...there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." - Thomas Kean, chairman, 9/11 Commission)
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To: NRA1995

The fool has said in his heart,, that Al Gore is smart...


43 posted on 09/10/2005 9:49:10 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed by me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: NRA1995

It scares the heck out of me that THIS guy was nearly commander in chief !


44 posted on 09/10/2005 9:57:12 AM PDT by sawmill trash (You declare jihad ... we declare DEGUELLO !)
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To: NRA1995

Coming from the mouth of this liberal COMMUNIST idiot Gore, what should we expect him to say about a Patriot and a Great American like President Bush.God Bless America and all who have and will defend HER.


45 posted on 09/10/2005 9:59:03 AM PDT by JOE43270 (JOE43270 America voted and said we are One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All.)
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To: JOE43270

The question that needs to be asked over and over is...
Who would be to blame if the President were a democrat and the LA officials were republican? Just picture Clinton as Pres. and the mayor and Gov. as republicans. ABCCBSNBCCNN would be screaming bloody murder for their heads. Clinton would be innocent in all this because he wanted to help, but just couldn't. Sick but true!


46 posted on 09/10/2005 10:31:29 AM PDT by ihaveboys
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To: martin_fierro
He betrayed us!! He played on our fears!!!
47 posted on 09/10/2005 11:01:32 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: NRA1995
"When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward."

--Mt 6.2

48 posted on 09/10/2005 2:52:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: NRA1995
Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response...

Translation--Bush should be held accountable for the governor's inadequate relief response.

49 posted on 09/10/2005 2:56:59 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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