[Wait4Truth]

Your comments are welcome, as always.

[finnman69]

"We should focus first and foremost on our top priority -- winning the war against terrorism."

THEN GET OUT OF THE WAY AL!

"If you are going after Jesse James you ought to organize the posse first"

WHAT DO YOU THINK WE HAVE BEEN DOING DIPSTICK!

[Mat_Helm]

Who is Al Gore????? Sounds like some budhist money laundramat owner.

[woofie]

This was posted at DU....I find it interesting:

grinz2much (355 posts)

Sep-23-02, 06:28 PM (ET)

Gore Speech - I WAS THERE!

I haven't seen the news coverage and I want to know if they edited me out. During the Q&A part I got up and interrupted him and made a statement, "We are more afraid of Bush than Saddam." He responded that perhaps I was joking and I said, "No - I am not joking. We are more afraid of Bush than Saddam." He got very nervous and basically said something like "we can't go there".

I was just wondering if that got censored out.

As to Gore's speech - I was uninspired. He did say more that I agreed with that I expected - but equivacated as to what to do. I was hoping for a strong firm statement of opposition. Basically what I hear was he supported the war - but should wait for more support.

[floriduh voter]

It's later in the evening now. My comment on Algor's comments "I'll have what he's having."

[Dan Day]

Gore in 1991, after the Gulf War had concluded:

What little criticism Bush is getting comes from potential presidential challengers like Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., who supported Bush's call to arms against Iraq, but now says he hasn't been tough enough.

Gore said last week that Saddam must be forced to destroy everything he could use to make nuclear weapons. He said he would support military strikes against Iraqi targets to accomplish that goal if necessary.
-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 07/21/91, page 16

Hmm -- now he's whining about how US military strikes on Iraq for the same purpose would be indefensible.

Also:

WASHINGTON - A leading Senate Democrat on Wednesday accused President Bush of making a conscious decision to keep Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq, suggesting it was part of the administration's foreign policy of coddling dictators.

"In what turned out to be the closing days of war with Iraq, he made a conscious decision that it was in the interests of the United States for Saddam Hussein to remain in power," said Sen. Al Gore , D- Tenn., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

[snip]

"This is a pattern in the Bush [41] foreign policy. He wants to support whoever is in power no matter how odious and despicable the human rights violations, the anti-Americanism, the nuclear proliferation or whatever."

Gore said Bush now has embraced Syrian President Hafez Assad, also a member of a Baathist Party. Gore termed Assad and Saddam "followers of the same bloodthirsty ideology."
-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 07/18/91, Page 3

Yeah, heaven forbid the elder Bush should decide to leave a dictator like Saddam in power just because it was in America's interest not to rock the boat.

Oh, wait... Isn't that what Gore is now arguing?