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Gore blasts Bush's 'cowboy' Iraq policy
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 09/24/2002 | Carla Marinucci & John Wildermuth

Posted on 09/24/2002 5:59:54 AM PDT by Pokey78

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In one of the most forceful Democratic condemnations of President Bush's foreign policy, former Vice President Al Gore warned in San Francisco on Monday that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq would distract America from its war on terrorism and "weaken our ability to lead the world."


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albertgorejunior; algore; algoreisnotmyprez; barf; gore; soreloser
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To: Pokey78
Last night I watched "High Noon". It had been awhile but the lesson applies to our confrontation with Saddam. The townspeople knew who the "bad guys" were. Some wre afraid and others were more supportive to the returning murderer. In the end, Gary Cooper won the day without any help from the twonfolk. His wife, Grace Kelly, backed him when the time came.

If this is the type of cowboy the Demoncraps and allies accuse Wubya of emulating, then I say,

"Do not foresake me oh my Darlin'" as sung by Tex Ritter!

41 posted on 09/24/2002 4:37:29 PM PDT by Young Werther
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To: Pokey78
The author of this article is so busy slobbering all over his hero AlGore that I couldn't stomach reading the whole thing.

Guess he didn't notice that even most of the Dems are trying to keep their distance from Gore's stupid and poorly timed comments.

42 posted on 09/24/2002 4:42:14 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Libertina
Only libs can be so vulgar and worthy of disdain.
43 posted on 09/24/2002 4:45:02 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: SantosLHalper
LOL cubed!
44 posted on 09/24/2002 4:47:47 PM PDT by Redleg Duke
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To: Young Werther
High Noon is the classic illustration of "all it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing."

Then there's Aldork, who is not good and who counsels doing nothing.

before you ride out after Jesse James, you ought to put the posse together.

Whoa, Aldork! Don't ye start up about gunfights! Yore from the pack o' varmints wantin' t' ban six-shooters!

It is not for nothing that Rush Limbaugh today in his third hour intoned:

Algore is a clueless dork.

Not anyone you'd want on your side in a ahem gunfight.

45 posted on 09/24/2002 4:48:28 PM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: Pokey78
Neil Boortz at www.boortz.com hits Gore today:

AL GORE UNDERMINES AMERICA
I guess you’ve already heard some excerpts from Al Gore’s speech in California yesterday. If you did, I hope they were played right alongside some excerpts from Tony Blair’s speech to the British Parliament this morning. Comparing the two … Blair comes across as a leader. Gore comes across as a hack politician.

Gore has decided that his political fortunes will best be served by mounting an attack on George Bush’s plans to unseat Saddam Hussein. To really boost his chances to defeat Bush in 2004 Gore has to paint Bush as a failure. So, at the very beginning of his speech, Gore comes out with this gem:

"I believe that we ought to be focusing our efforts first and foremost against those who attacked us on September 11th and who have thus far gotten away with it."

Gotten away with it? The conventional wisdom is that Osama Bin Laden is dead. He most likely died in a cave in the Tora Bora Mountains. Al Qaeda is scattered. Their training bases are gone. Al Qaeda leadership is either dead, hiding, running like hell, or in custody. And this is what Al Gore describes as “getting away with it?

Al Gore is doing the same thing that Bill Clinton tried to do a few weeks ago. He’s trying to create an aura of failure around Bush’s conduct of the war on terrorism. Gore and his leftist fellow travelers know that discrediting Bush, painting him as a failure in his war on terror, is an essential element of Democratic electoral success. Electoral success is more important to the Democrats this November and in 2004 than is neutralizing any threat Saddam Hussein poses to America.

What is the Democrats worst nightmare? Bush sends the troops in. Saddam is removed from power. American troops find evidence of an ongoing program to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Evidence is also found which showed that Hussein had plans to use these weapons against America, Israel and his Arab neighbors. The goal? To become the ruler of the entire Arab world, and of all the oil supplies in the Middle East. Saddam is out, Bush is a hero – and the Democrats see their chances dim not only in 2004, but beyond.

How do the Democrats prevent this scenario from becoming reality? Keep Bush out of Iraq. Paint his as a warmonger as Cynthia Tucker is trying to do.

As for Saddam, once the Democrats are in power they can “discover” a new threat from Saddam and move to neutralize it, thus making them the heroes.

If you have the stomach for it … here is a transcript of Gore’s speech.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/gore_text092302.html

AND IF WE DON’T ACT?

The darker side of my personality harbors this scenario where President Bush just throws his hands up and says “OK, fine. Have it your way. We will take no military action against Iraq unless Saddam Hussein attacks us first.” Then, about six months or a year down the road there are reports of a case of smallpox in Chicago. Then one in Detroit. Then there are two cases; three, a dozen. More cases pop up in New York.

Suddenly it is very clear that America is under attack. It’s not a nuclear bomb secreted across the Canadian border in a minivan. It’s not deadly chemicals sprayed from one of this deadly general aviation airplanes. No, just a couple of people with Smallpox spreading the introducing the highly contagious disease into about six major American cities.

An emergency inoculation program is begun. People wait in line for hours for the vaccination process .. hoping they haven’t yet been infected. Soon one of the disease carriers is found, dead. The FBI determines that he is from the Middle East. Further investigation finds he is from Iraq. He, and his fellow carriers, were unknowingly infected with the disease and sent to the US.

Before the completion of my dark imaginary scenario smallpox spreads across the United States. Fatalities add up to the tens of thousands. This is America, so it’s time to assess blame.

Is there any way in the world that Al Gore or his fellow Democratic appeasers would say, “We’re sorry. The President was right, and we should have supported him in his efforts to get rid of Saddam Hussein”? Yeah, sure they would. You know what would happen. Al Gore would take to the stump before some fundraiser to blast Bush for the intelligence failures that led to this smallpox invasion. Bush would be blamed for his “bellicose and belligerent attitude” that led Saddam Hussein to launch this attack. Bill Clinton would pass down the word to DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe to attack Bush for the lack of preparedness in America’s major cities. One way or another .. Bush’s fault.

46 posted on 09/24/2002 4:48:50 PM PDT by kcar
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To: Pokey78
In response to an audience question about another presidential run, Gore said, "I haven't ruled it out," adding he would decide by December, based on wholly unscientific "gut feeling."

His "gut feeling."?

I don't know which is worse.
Gore's stiff wooden public image, or his pathetic attempts to make himself over with these 'I'm just a spontaneous, from the gut kind a dude' cliches.
Just like his so-called 'spontaneous' Tipper kiss on stage during the 2000 campaign.
Right. The more this guy tries to look "natural", the more phoney he comes off.

47 posted on 09/24/2002 4:53:41 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Libertina
So he doesn't like cowboys, huh?

In listening to the cowboy part of his speech, I was expecting him to say,"Listen up pilgrims." Does anybody think he was giving us a really bad John Wayne immitation?

48 posted on 09/24/2002 4:58:25 PM PDT by diamond6
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To: Pokey78
Al Gore? Al Gore? The name sounds vaguely familiar. Hmmmm, just can't seem to remember the relevance.
49 posted on 09/24/2002 4:58:50 PM PDT by OC_Steve
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To: OC_Steve
I'm going to start call Al Bore "Fosbury".
50 posted on 09/24/2002 5:56:36 PM PDT by diamond6
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
>>So he wishes to build up our "goodwill" by making us sitting ducks.

No, he just wants to be President for the sake of being President. If he had any vision or platform other than "whatever is opposite what the other guys are doing", he wouldn't be a Dumocrap, would he?

51 posted on 09/24/2002 6:23:09 PM PDT by Wondervixen
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To: diamond6
LOL Everything Gore says is an imitation. A weak one. When I heard him speak big waves of annoyance washed over me - I'd forgotten how grating he is.
52 posted on 09/24/2002 6:31:11 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: Destructor
EXCELLENT POINT!!!

With Bush, we may not know for sure if Bin Laden is dead or alive and we don't have him in custody if he IS alive, but at least those negatives are a plus compared to a Gore Administration...THERE, we'd be sitting across from a table with the bastard, able to reach out & touch him or even wring his neck, but we wouldn't because like Clinton, Gore wouldn't take him for fear of making the UN mad.

53 posted on 09/24/2002 6:45:43 PM PDT by Wondervixen
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To: Libertina
He is pretty annoying. You ever feel like your in first grade again, whenever he talks?
54 posted on 09/24/2002 6:46:02 PM PDT by diamond6
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To: diamond6
>>I'm going to start call Al Bore "Fosbury".

They Called Him FLOPPER, FLOPPER

Faster than Oatmeal

He Cannot Be Real

He's Such A Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

55 posted on 09/24/2002 7:03:35 PM PDT by Wondervixen
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To: diamond6
You ever feel like your in first grade again, whenever he talks?
Constantly, but I tell myself I must have patience with the special ed kids. ;)
56 posted on 09/24/2002 7:06:04 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: Pokey78
I could say algore is a species of tree. No, I won't say that.

I could say algore is a hypocrit. No, I won't say that.

I could say algore is liar. No, I won't say that.

I could say algore is a REMF. No, I won't say that either.

I will say thank the Lord algore is not president.

5.56mm

57 posted on 09/24/2002 7:09:11 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Wondervixen
LOL. You got it.
58 posted on 09/24/2002 8:54:04 PM PDT by diamond6
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To: TonyRo76
"Makes me shudder to think how close this effete, pandering, pusillanimous twinkie of a man actually got to being president. Sheesh!

I thank God every day that Green Al didn't get elected. He is a spinless hamster that isn't worthy of any kind of respect

59 posted on 09/24/2002 9:00:20 PM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: All
Does anybody really pay attention to or really care what an ex-vice president, presidential looser, says about anything? Why does this need to be discussed? What about Dan Quale (gets a heck of a lot more respect from me than Algore ever will) says about Iraq?
60 posted on 09/24/2002 9:07:08 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird
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