How do you think GORE would have handled 9/11

GrandMoM | 02/03/02

[GrandMoM]

While the former veep praised President Bush for is stewardship of the war on terrorism, he warned that the country needed new leadership that would make finding energy "substitutes and alternatives and conservation" a priority.

Have any of you fellow FReepers even imagined how 9/11 and this war would have been handled if GORE & LIEBERMAN had won the election?

[TaxPayer2000]

He would have blamed it on the evil republicans trying to destroy his great economy

[weegee]

Next time someone offers up the notion of seizing wealth and giving it to the Muddled East to somehow buy off the next attack consider this:

5 of the 10 wealthiest men in the world live in the Middle East. Start by seizing their assets and palaces, etc. before taking a single dime from an American.

[John Jorsett]

Assuming that he'd have launched a campaign in Afghanistan in the first place ( a very big if), he'd almost certainly have paused it for Ramadan and possibly the entire Winter. (Remember the early pudit comments that "the brutal Afghan Winter" would be setting in, making military action impossible?) We'd probably still not have caused the fall of the Taliban by this time.

[finnman69]

The White House crater would be just about excavated by now and congressional hearings would be asking the question why were flights not grounded across the nation in time to prevent further attacks. The weekly Osama bin Laden press statements would be not helping the 40% Approval rating for President Gore as he attempted to try to get UN condemnation of the Taliban.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

aint that the truth he would blame right wing radio

[ChadGore]

ie gore would have given the state of the union address with mad Mulla omar in the balcony.

[eastforker]

FWIW,if gore had been elected there probably wouldn't have been an attack.I think President Bush was activly planning a raid on OBL long before 911,I think OBL got wind of it and made a pre-emptive strike against the US.Had gore been elected he would have tried to appease OBL,the PA and all the other evil doers.

[nocommies]

good point, he'd probably be cowering in fear, telling them we'll help them take ALL of israel,

[GrandMoM]

....I'll take my Gray Goose up, dry, and with an olive...please!....and Thank You

[alloysteel]

Very badly.

In an observation attributed to the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, "God watches over fools, children, drunks and the United States." Only by the most improbable series of blunders and near-misses, has the US staggered out of the way of certain oblivion.

Nobody could have written a piece of fiction twenty-five years ago which would have accurately predicted recent history, and been regarded as a serious author at the time.

[Jambe]

A Gore administration would have promptly called for a UN conference to discuss the terms of the U.S. surrender.

Mr. Gore can't hold a job let alone command a nation. We as a people are far, far better off due to his loss!

[GrandMoM]

....nor they him!

[LibKill]

You forgot this: </sarcasm>

[He Rides A White Horse]

Dear Taliban:

I am truly sorry that we have caused you so much pain that we drove you to act out your righteous anger against us.

Words can not express how truly sorry I am, and I assure you that in the future we will try to be more respectful of your feelings.

Please forgive us.

Yours Truly,

Al Gore

[nocommies]

hehehe, I LOVE IT!! EXCELLENT POST MY FRIEND!

[Neets]

Well for sure he wouldn't be boasting the fact that he "invented WAR".

[GrandMoM]

THANKS FOR THE LAUGH!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I believe he would have been looking for a place to hide.
I also believe he would have utilized the place he is most comfortable with and the place he hides most often...

[Ron in Acreage]

You are ALL WRONG!! The first, I mean FIRST, thing he would have done was to take a poll. Then propose to put the Taliban in a Lock Box.

[Allegra]

That picture never gets old. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!