Posted on 09/25/2002 4:13:59 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
AL GORE, remarkably, has stepped into a leadership vacuum and said several things that most congressional Democrats may well believe but have been too fearful to utter.
Gore, speaking Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, warned that unilateral action against Saddam Hussein would ''severely damage'' the more urgent war on terrorism and ''weaken our ability to lead the world.'' Gore declared that the president has turned the broad reservoir of good will for America ''into a deep sense of misgiving and even hostility.'' In a pointed dig at President George W. Bush's go-it-alone cowboy rhetoric, he added, ''If you're going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first.''
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I hope more and more reporters say stuff like this before the election. This way the undecided and moderate voters will break toward the republicans.
LOL!
It still eats at them!
Thank GOD for the wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
In light of recent intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein has continued to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction, in violation of U.N. sanctions, I have by executive order, authorized the immediate and total destuction of every....single....aspirin factory in Iraq
Why am I not surprised that this article will not support the contention
Many Democrats in Congress say privately [who, to you?] (and a few publicly) that they've heard nothing in the confidential intelligence briefings to indicate that Saddam Hussein is more of a threat now than in years past.
So what? And who was in charge in the past?
Congressional Democrats got a closed-door briefing from a worried and extremely skeptical Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's hawkish national security adviser. Worried and skeptical about what? He's a big mouth, why not express concerns publicly? Who's dole is he on? Saudi funding? And what the f does he know about the middle-east, he's Mr. Blowback!
This morning Democrats are scheduled to have a another confidential briefing from one of the party's foreign policy eminences, Richard Holbrooke, who is said to harbor grave doubts.
Eminence. Let's bow to this retread!
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