He had to have known it; we all knew it. The un-named Clinton hack in paragraph #2 who claimed they'd never in a million years hand Dubya a war is lying through his teeth; that's exactly what they did do. It just took a few months longer for Pearl Harbor to happen than they anticipated.
And, if Gore won the election, then for sure Clinton would have been able to get in on the action, sidestep the mentally challenged Gorebot, and strive for that long lost legacy