Gore blasts Bush's 'cowboy' Iraq policy

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 09/24/2002 | Carla Marinucci & John Wildermuth

[Pokey78]

In one of the most forceful Democratic condemnations of President Bush's foreign policy, former Vice President Al Gore warned in San Francisco on Monday that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq would distract America from its war on terrorism and "weaken our ability to lead the world."

[winner45]

Pokey, you forgot the barf alert.

[Marc Poor]

Asked at one point, "If you had been elected president . . ." several in the crowd yelled out "He was!" -- and then took up that chant of "He was! He was!"

These bozos must be reading a different version of the Constitution then the one I have.

[Huck]

"After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world," Gore told about 500 people at the Commonwealth Club of California. "That has been squandered in a year's time and replaced with great fear, anxiety and uncertainty around the world, not at what the terrorist network is going to do, but at what we are going to do."

Hey Algore, how bout putting yourself into America's shoes for just an instant. I know it's hard, but try. Let's see what it might look like:

After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world," Gore told about 500 people at the Commonwealth Club of California. "That support has begun to waiver in a year's time and replaced with a great fear to act. Our allies are more concerned about their own fear about what might happen if they act then about what will happen if we don't act."

See Algore? It ain't so hard. Just pretend you are a loyal patriotic American. Imagine.

[Joe Brower]

HEY, AL!

[LandofLincoln]

What was Gore's strategy on Iraq, and terror? I'll tell you ... He and Clinton thought that if they created enough terror at home, we would not notice the terror abroad. But, hey they did blow up a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan.

[prisoner6]

Bump for afters.

prisoner6

[Cultural Jihad]

Gore also dodged questions about whether Bush was playing politics with Iraq.

"I have purposely avoided making that charge . . ." he said. "The fact that doubts have been rising up is simply a fact that has to be taken into consideration."

But the crowd erupted in cheers when he added that Bush "should stop using the (war) issue on the campaign trail."

Yet, Gore drew a line -- forcefully -- when an audience member shouted out that Americans had more to fear from Bush than Hussein.

[Darth Dan]

"After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world," Gore told about 500 people at the Commonwealth Club of California. "That has been squandered in a year's time and replaced with great fear, anxiety and uncertainty around the world, not at what the terrorist network is going to do, but at what we are going to do."

If anyone knows anything about squander, it's the previous administration. It squandered all the great accomplishments of Reagan: the economy, the fall of the Berlin wall & defeat of Communism in the U.S.S.R. It also squandered many opportunities to actually retaliate against the terrorism being conducted against the U.S. It's clear what you would do, Al, nothing.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world," Gore told about 500 people at the Commonwealth Club of California.

So he wishes to build up our "goodwill" by making us sitting ducks. It is embarassing for America that this buffoon came as close to the presidency as he did.

[prov1813man]

Notice this tactic from the left. First their polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the war on terror. However, their base are adamantly against anything that is good for America (like survival) and historically for the positions most favored by our enemies.

So, they "support" the war on terror, while opposing it's elements. Attempts to separate Iraq from the war on terror are akin to World War II cries of "attacking France (normandy) will steal our focus in the War on Hitler".

I noticed that Suzie Tompkins is now a "prominent dimocrat", just another fossilized hippie from the sixties who made good on the very free enterprise principles whose destruction she now supports.

BARFFFFF!!!!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Gore was wagging the dog. He is churning the press to divert coverage of the money he took from China the DNC just got fined for.

[anoldafvet]

Would this be the story that appeared on page 23 of The New York Slimes and page 14 of the Louisville Courier Journal?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I think so.

If Al had his way, he would invite Saddam to the Whitehouse for a fundraiser.

[ErnBatavia]

All this cowboy talk....this is another example of Gore's being "Big hat - but no cattle".

[Right_in_Virginia]

"If the United States goes it alone in an attack on Iraq..."

If I were British, I'd be mighty sick of and insulted by this continued assertion by idiots like Gore.

[BibChr]

Geez. Not one American critical listener within five miles for the reporter to question. Imagine.

Dan