The only thing in nature more dense than Depleted Uranium is Algorium.
It is much too dense to be fashioned into a practical weapon and is so unstable it will can reach critical mass unassisted.
Posted on 06/24/2004 6:34:25 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Former Vice President Al Gore Thursday called for an independent congressional investigation into Bush administration claims of an Iraq-al-Qaida link, saying officials should testify under oath under threat of perjury.
Gore, speaking at the Georgetown University Law Center, claimed "President Bush is now intentionally misleading the American people by continuing to aggressively and brazenly assert a linkage between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein."
Gore said of the way the Bush administration has conducted the war on terrorism, "I think it is safe to say that our founders ... would feel that we are now facing a clear and present danger that has the potential to threaten the future of the American experiment."
The former vice president, who lost the 2000 election for president to Bush, said there is no credible evidence of a "collaborative relationship" between al-Qaida and Iraq. That supposed connection, he said, led to an attack on Iraq. As a result, said Gore, "We are left with an unprecedented, high-intensity conflict every single day between the ideological illusions upon which this administration's policies have been based and the reality of the world."
Bush, as recently as last week, said he claimed there is a link between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein "because there is link." Vice President Dick Cheney said this week there was overwhelming evidence of a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida.
Last week a report from the staff of the Sept. 11 Commission looking into possible intelligence failures prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which were carried out by al-Qaida, said the Iraq-al-Qaida link did not exist. Commission members tweaked that, however, limiting it to the planning for the Sept. 11 hijackings. The Bush administration agreed, saying that while Iraq and al-Qaida did have contacts, they did not work together on the Sept. 11 attacks.
Gore claimed the administration "deliberately ignored warnings before the (Iraq) war from international intelligence services, the CIA and their own Pentagon that the claim was false." He recalled the 2002 statement by Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the Council of Europe's terrorism expert, that "We have found no evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaida. If there were such links we would have found them. But we have found no serious connections whatsoever."
Bush ordered the invasion of Afghanistan when the Taliban leaders there refused to hand over al-Qaida leaders -- including Osama bin Laden, who had orchestrated attacks against U.S. interests during the Clinton administration before masterminding Sept. 11.
U.S.-led forces were able to unseat the Taliban and soon the Bush administration was looking at Iraq, a target administration critics allege had been the main end in the first place.
Gore said that switching to a war in Iraq allowed many Taliban and al-Qaida leaders to escape in Afghanistan. In fact, he alleged, their numbers have "grown considerably" due to a war that is perceived in the Muslim world as a "gross injustice."
"The way in which we have conducted that war," he said, "further fueled a sense of rage against the United States in those lands and, according to several studies, has stimulated a new wave of recruits for the terrorist group that attacked us and still wishes us harm."
Terry Holt, spokesman for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, issued a statement saying, "Al Gore lives in his own world and is engaged in simple political attacks on the president.
"The (Sept. 11 Commission) members themselves last week took great pains to point out that they were aware of connections between al-Qaida and various elements in Iraq."
John Lehman, one of the Republicans on the commission, in the wake of the report last week, offered evidence that a member of Saddam's Fedayeen had attended an al-Qaida meeting in Malaysia in January 2001.
Gore said that "within hours, the commission's files yielded definitive evidence that it was another man with a similar name."
The former vice president suggested a fate for Bush similar to one that his former boss -- President Bill Clinton -- went through in the appointment of a special prosecutor.
"Congressional oversight and special prosecution are words that should hang in the air," Gore said.
"This is what we must now do, as Americans, in the name of our founders."
It will be interesting to see what happens after Gore's outbursts backfire and Bush begins to kick butt in the polls. Wonder if Gore will continue to emit noise.
Also wonder if Michael Moore will pull his film if it backfires.
And to think he came so close to being handed the launch codes to thermonuclear weapons. [[shudder]]
I bet you're really good at scary stories around the campfire! Ya have me shivering.
I'm a poor little sheep who has lost his way, an election, and my mind,...baa... baa... baa.
Can you just picture it? Fade in to a clock ticking very slowly, gathering momentum then BLAM!!! Al Gore screaming on television, Clinton raging at his recent interview, Hillary and Bill in a deep state of something at Reagan's funeral, Kerry ranting at a Secret Service agent on the slopes. Kennedy feverishly venting. The possibilities are endless and I swear if I had money and power I would absolutely produce it and it would be a blockbuster!
So anyway I read somewhere that the ancient Egyptians knew how to make marshmallows. I wonder if they were pyramid shaped....................oh yeah, Algore...well he's just a hole with a really big ass around it. Now where was I.....
Looks like the media will now try to use the word "collaborative" like they tried to twist the truth by using the word "imminent" a few months ago.
Scary, isn't it? What amazes me is that nearly half of the voters in this country wanted this lunatic as their leader? Do they have their collective heads in their arses? Or is it that their party is all that matters?
Whose bush?
He really has come unhinged. His amily or friends really ought to get him some help or lock him in the attic.
Attic? How about putting him in a lock box!
The more Gore rattles on, the more thankful Americans are that he was defeated at the polls.
FOFLOL. That'll work. :)
Me too. For four decades I've watched conservatives attempt to respond with reason and facts. By the time the conservatives get their rebuttals together the left has moved on to another "issue" and conservatives are back to square one. As David Horowitz pointed out about the left, the issue is not the issue.
All the while the left is yelling epithets at conservatives. Up until now most conservatives reacted as Trent Lott reacted, they folded.
Time for plain language. We've wasted four decades trying to explain to those whose only issue is our destruction.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President!
Gore wanted to be Caesar, that crap didn't happen either.
Gore is a closet Wahabist.
The only thing in nature more dense than Depleted Uranium is Algorium.
It is much too dense to be fashioned into a practical weapon and is so unstable it will can reach critical mass unassisted.
Al-Gore is a very dangerous Islamic jihadist known for ritualistic beheadings, Koranic tirades, wahibbi blood oaths, and flaming Haj cakes.
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