Transcript: Iraq and the War On Terrorism [Transcript of Al Gore's Blathering]

Al Gore 2004 Official Website (Are you serious?) ^ | 9/23/2002 | Al Gore

[Paul Atreides]

Argh. Please yank my #21!

Please! No Bill/Monica bawdy talk.

[Undertow]

Al and Tipper plot their '04 strategy at the new DNC headquarters in Rat's Ass Tennessee.

[MJY1288]

The Boy Scout Troop I belonged to some 35 years ago stood at attention better than these guys :-)

But at least it's an improvement over what they used to look like under Taliban control (un-disciplined wild animals)

[mhking]

[Paul Atreides]

It will be fun if it comes down to Bubba and Hillary having to come out for the Bore.

[Sungirl]

I heard that the Whitehouse reply to this was Gore "is irrelevant and out of touch with his own party."

HAHAHAHAHAHAH....great reply.

[Shermy]

Oh Speed!

[mhking]

Oh Speed!

And you, too, can have your very own custom Mach 5 -- only $635,000!

[MJY1288]

[woofie]

Al ...we need ya buddy in the war effort..get your gear together and get going ...next stop Bagdad, yep Bagdad! Now dont go anwhere else till we call ya....

[NorCoGOP]

I was one of the few Democrats in the U.S. Senate who supported the war resolution in 1991.

And you supported Bubba's impeachment-deflection in 1998, and again in June 2000, you were for this.

Yet another "new" Al Gore flip-flop....we're tired of your flapping in the wind...

You lost.

You aren't President (Praise be to God)

GET OVER IT.

Don't you have a class to teach or something better to do?

[Pagey]

Hell Bump

[perfect stranger]

I'm glad you saved that. Thanks

[PoisedWoman]

Found at: http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20000110.html

"According to Britannica.com, a fifth column refers to any clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity.

"Who came up with the phrase, and what's with the columns? Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), originally coined the term. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

<So the fifth column is a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders. Recent conflicts have had their fifth columns: Iraqi insurgents in the Gulf War, Cuban rebels in the Bay of Pigs. Those columns didn't fare quite as well."

[Tom Bombadil]

I’m speaking today in an effort to recommend a specific course of action for our country which I believe would be preferable to the course recommended by President Bush

I am such a smart weenie.

[45Auto]

For those who may wish to forget, Gore was VP of this great nation for 8 years (1992-2000). And…during those eight years, he and his administration had many chances to fix many problems including those of world terrorism. And what is Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything Gore’s record?

1. The Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center.

2. The 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel.

3. The April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 Americans.

4. The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel.

5. The 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000.

6. The 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors

[X-FID]

I hope the Afghan 1st Batallion isn't standing at attention. If so, they need some motivating :-)

Hehe, the guy on the right is very close to scratching his ass, that is anything but attention, worms.

[rintense]

Ok, this guy needs to STOP inhaling.

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[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?