LIVE THREAD: GORE TO SPEAK SHORTLY ON IRAQ - 3:15 approx

MSNBC | 9/23/02 | Wait4Truth

[floriduh voter]

Exactly. Since it was obvious that Algor was under the influence of something, none of our remarks have been deleted by the admin moderator. We saw it with our own eyes and that means it's newsworthy. It's in the public domain - and the way he swaggered and rambled, maybe he should have had water before the speech, not that other adult beverage. He reminded me of Alec Baldwin who is another loser.

[floriduh voter]

There are happy drinkers and sad drinkers. The sad drinkers invented the blues.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I would say this.... He doesn't look drunk to me, but I could believe that he has a "hatchet in the head" hangover. He looks incredibly pained.

[HairOfTheDog]

[whew] its over. That was horrid.

[Dan Day]

Gore in 1991, after the Gulf War had concluded:

What little criticism Bush is getting comes from potential presidential challengers like Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., who supported Bush's call to arms against Iraq, but now says he hasn't been tough enough.

Gore said last week that Saddam must be forced to destroy everything he could use to make nuclear weapons. He said he would support military strikes against Iraqi targets to accomplish that goal if necessary.
-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 07/21/91, page 16

Hmm -- now he's whining about how US military strikes on Iraq for the same purpose would be indefensible.

Also:

WASHINGTON - A leading Senate Democrat on Wednesday accused President Bush of making a conscious decision to keep Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq, suggesting it was part of the administration's foreign policy of coddling dictators.

"In what turned out to be the closing days of war with Iraq, he made a conscious decision that it was in the interests of the United States for Saddam Hussein to remain in power," said Sen. Al Gore , D- Tenn., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

[snip]

"This is a pattern in the Bush [41] foreign policy. He wants to support whoever is in power no matter how odious and despicable the human rights violations, the anti-Americanism, the nuclear proliferation or whatever."

Gore said Bush now has embraced Syrian President Hafez Assad, also a member of a Baathist Party. Gore termed Assad and Saddam "followers of the same bloodthirsty ideology."
-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 07/18/91, Page 3

Yeah, heaven forbid the elder Bush should decide to leave a dictator like Saddam in power just because it was in America's interest not to rock the boat.

Oh, wait... Isn't that what Gore is now arguing?

[justsomedude]

I spent 8 years avoiding mass media because I couldn't stand the sound of their voices (not kidding).

Tonight I heard a soundbyte from the spew in, well, of all places, san francisco. I had to change the station before the 3rd or 4th word....there is something in me that can't tolerate willful hypocrisy, deception, self righteousness, evil...there is something particularly unnerving about clinton, gore, lieberman, and those they associate with. again, I am not engaging in hyperbole. I'm soberly searching for the best way to describe how I perceive them, and to describe their effect on my consciousness.

[b4its2late]

You're right. He just makes an ass out of himself when his gums are flapping.....

[b4its2late]

Thanks for the link Jim.