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How do you think GORE would have handled 9/11
GrandMoM | 02/03/02

Posted on 02/03/2002 9:48:33 AM PST by 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?


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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
I agree with ALL of you (except whoever said Presidents don't set war strategy) and want to add one big thing: He and Bill would be saddled up again campaigning for reparations....after all, according to Clinton, it was slavery which caused them to hate us so much.
41 posted on 02/03/2002 10:08:25 AM PST by Timeout
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To: eastforker
Sorry,

but the plans for 9-11 were in place long before Bush was even running for office. The attack would still have taken place if the Goron Coup succeeded. The big difference is that the Taliban would still be in power now while Gore tries negotiating with them as they continue to strike all over the western world. (Except maybe France because I believe they have already surrendered!)

42 posted on 02/03/2002 10:08:38 AM PST by PortugeeJoe
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To: GrandMoM
algore would have done what Beelzebubba would have done. Lob a few cruise missiles in the general direction of bin-Laden and call it a day. Then turn the screws on Israel to bow down to Arafat and vacate Jerusalem and turn over the temple mount while bin-Laden and his thug killers would be planning a nuke or chem attack on the USA.

President Bush is the terrorists worst nightmare!

43 posted on 02/03/2002 10:09:23 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
How is that possible?

Don't you, like, have to pull down your pants FIRST?

44 posted on 02/03/2002 10:09:51 AM PST by alloysteel
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To: LibKill
No, I realy mean it.During the clinton years I have a feeling the terrorist blackmailed Clintoon,telling him to back off of muslims or they would make a strike.I think the cole,the embassy bombings were just warnings.Had Gore been elected he would have probably been blackmailed into pulling troops out of saudi and giving arafat a free hand against Israel.Also,had gore been elected islam would have flurished worldwide to the nth degree.No,I think W was on their tale and was planning some justice for all the terror attacks previous,and OBL knew his days were numbered,why else would you wake a sleeping giant,knowing it would be your death warrant.
45 posted on 02/03/2002 10:12:34 AM PST by eastforker
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To: Howlin
My wife and I had similar thoughts on Sept 12; Thank God that this didn't happen during the Clinton presidency or Gore's attempt to steal the election.

Gore as President? A few missles at unimportant sites. Then the serious stuff would begin; the negotiations with the Taliban. New laws would have been drafted to restrict our freedoms, while keeping the INS from going after those here illegally. Gun rights would be a thing of the past, and we'd be fighting to keep our right to own knives and box cutters which would probably become registered items overnight. We would probably have even more international welfare (which serves to keep in power bad regemes that keep their people poor in most cases). I could go on and on; but I think you get the idea.

It is a scary though, one I have had many times. This is why I often thank God for President Bush!

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

46 posted on 02/03/2002 10:12:46 AM PST by logic101.net
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To: GrandMoM
Enron would be flying higher than a kite, on its old habit.
47 posted on 02/03/2002 10:13:05 AM PST by let freedom sing
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To: alloysteel
"How is that possible? "

I also believe that Algore would have had a tailor make up a whole slew of slacks with a special "rear trap door" for just such an occasion.


48 posted on 02/03/2002 10:14:03 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: GrandMoM
Personally, I belive GORE would have PI$$ED HIS PANTS the minute he heard about the first plane.

And $HIT HIS PANTS when the second one hit. The Battleground Poll would show the same results for different reasons. Instead of being attracted by a positive example provided by GWB and the republicans, the public would be repulsed by AG and the Dimocrats.

Afghanistan would NOT be free right now.

Is there ANYONE who thinks we would have gotten ANY form of a tax cut under AG?

I didn't think so.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

49 posted on 02/03/2002 10:14:08 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: GrandMoM
Are tying to give us nightmares? I don't even want to think about it.
50 posted on 02/03/2002 10:14:57 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked
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To: powderhorn
Presidents don't really create the strategy for fighting wars. That's something the Generals do.

The way I understand it, the Generals give several options, depending upon what the President asks for.

I believe that a President Gore (shudder) would have asked for much different options than our President Bush. It would have been a couple of quick bombings and then nothing. Lots of rhetoric, but no real muscle.

51 posted on 02/03/2002 10:15:16 AM PST by w1andsodidwe
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To: GrandMoM
He would have claimed that he invented the fire engine, the airplane, the tall building...Then he would have Tomahawked some mountainside in Afghanistan while hosting a state dinner for Arafat.
52 posted on 02/03/2002 10:15:38 AM PST by pfflier
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To: GrandMoM
Gore would have offered an unconditional surrender after the FIRST plane hit the WTC.
53 posted on 02/03/2002 10:17:09 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: GrandMoM
He'd hold a press conference and confess to election fraud, hand the presidency over to bush...then crawl under the bed.
54 posted on 02/03/2002 10:17:29 AM PST by JessicaDragonet
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To: powderhorn
Condi Rice and Donald Rumsfeld? I don't think so.

Gore would have had the same people as the clinton regime, like the general who wanted to have every person in the army wear black berets made in Communist China, and the female general who had the NICE campaign to eliminate aggressiveness from the military, and the generals who after 9/11 came to Rummy with a plan so timid and clintonesque he cussed them out and kicked them out of his office and told them to come back with a plan worthy of the United States.

Yeah, different speechwriters too, but very different things to write speeches about.

55 posted on 02/03/2002 10:18:01 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
....WELL IT'S ONE OF MINE TOO! I JUST WANTED TO SHARE.....
56 posted on 02/03/2002 10:18:37 AM PST by GrandMoM
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To: eastforker
You may be right. Given that scenario we would have been attacked if any administration, Republican or dimocrat, had gone after Osama.

I can see Klintoon paying Dane-Geld (blackmail) to Osama.

57 posted on 02/03/2002 10:18:59 AM PST by LibKill
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To: GrandMoM
THANKS FOR THE LAUGH

Laugh?? I was being serious...:^)), You're welcome, LOL

58 posted on 02/03/2002 10:19:35 AM PST by 4TheFlag
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To: reagan_fanatic
One bit of good news if Gore was President on 9/11: He would have taken Jesse up on his offer to negotiate with the Taliban. And the Taliban would've done away with the "King of Beers" after just five minutes of listening to his annoying haranguing.
59 posted on 02/03/2002 10:19:54 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
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To: alloysteel
Gore has special pants made.
60 posted on 02/03/2002 10:20:49 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked
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