Funny how the socialists, celebs and george soros types love to trash our country on someone elses soil.
Posted on 10/12/2005 2:07:22 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 4:39 p.m. EDT Gore: America 'Routinely Torturing People'
Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration.
"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again," Gore told reporters after giving a speech at an economic forum in Sweden.
When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.
"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."
"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country."
Gore did not elaborate. But last year, he blamed Bush administration policies for the inmate abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Mike Feldman, Gore's spokesman, did not immediately comment on Gore's remark when reached by phone in Washington.
Tracey Schmitt, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Gore's comments "fictitious rants that border on dangerous."
"To accuse Americans of participating in 'routine torture' is absurd and reveals that while Al Gore may no longer be a leader in his party, he still embodies the maniacal anger that guides Democrat leaders in Washington today," Schmitt wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
Gore also reiterated his criticism that the Bush administration was too slow in responding to the crisis in New Orleans after the city's levees failed during Hurricane Katrina. He said that should have been predicted.
"There were specific warnings that the levees might break," he said. "But for whatever reason those warnings were not acted upon in a timely way."
He said the United States and other countries are similarly ignoring the threats that global warning pose to the environment.
"My country is extremely attentive to the slightest increase in a risk from terror, and that's appropriate," he said. "But why should we be so tolerant of risk where the future habitability of our planet is concerned?"
Gore, who now runs a cable TV channel and is the chairman of an investment company, did not completely shut the door to future political endeavors.
"I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that," Gore said.
He declined to comment on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's possible run for the White House in 2008, but he said he believes the country is ready for a female president.
"Of course a woman could get elected president," he said. "I am not going to make any comment on individual candidates. It's quite premature."
I agree it happens every year around April 15th.
It's torture just listening to Algore.
There's a Saint out there somewhere that needs a candle lit.
Drink if he said,"...No controlling legal authority."
Good catch. Funny how all the little Dem stooges go over THERE to say this crap. Hey Al, NO ONE will miss you if you STAY there.
Funny how the socialists, celebs and george soros types love to trash our country on someone elses soil.
That close to this pandering, lying two-faced POS traitor being President.
"We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said.
Apparently the U.S. Senate agrees with Gore, since last week it voted 90-9 to further protect terrorists from "abuse". The Senate is buying into the media propaganda that the U.S. is somehow evil, and the terrorists need to be protected by additional laws. The 90 Senators are giving comfort to the enemy that is responsible for killing some 1,900 of our soldiers in Iraq, and for killing more than 3,000 people here on 9/11, and for blowing up thousands civilians, mothers and children around the world, reducing them to body parts. The 90 Senators are lunatics.
When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.
"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq.
Translation - I would have held a summit with Osama and Saddam and tried to understand why they are angry with us. We would have bombed one cave after 9/11 and the terrorists attacks against America would continue.
"We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."
Translation - Recession during entire first term.
"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media.
We wouldn't have to, they would spew our propoganda without question.
We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said.
Translation - Funding to the CIA, FBI and US military would be slashed.
"We would be a different country."
Translation - More socialism, less freedom.
I thought that Clinton/Gore was nothing but 8 years of solid torture.
Al Gore is crazy and I wish that he would stop torturing us with his insights.
Women and minorities primary targets!
He's a real loser man
Sitting in his loser land
Making all his loser plans
For losers.
Has too many points of view
Knows not where he's going to.
Loser man
Pandering to you and me.
Loser man, please listen
We won't miss what we're missin'
Loser man,
The armed forces won't be at your command.
Won't be the navy's next skipper.
He'll spend his days with sweet Tipper.
Loser man, give her a kiss for me.
Loser man, please hurry,
We'll be fine, don't worry,
Loser man, your future is back on the land.
Got some hogs to be slopped.
Got some tobacco to be chopped.
Loser man on his farm in Tennessee.
Loser man, don't be silly.
You can cruise with Slick Willie.
Loser man, the real party just began.
He's a real loser man
Sitting in his loser land
Making all his loser plans
For losers.
Making all his loser plans
For losers.
Making all his loser plans
For losers.
Poor Al, he's a 50'ish white guy trying to dance on stage at a all black hip-hop club full of 20 somethings......
Yes, Mr. Petrified Tree... I'm being torture-taxed to death (especially at the gas station).
Democrats are routinely torturing Americans!! It is pure torture to have to hear and read idiotic ravings from the likes of Algore, Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary, etc. etc. Call Amnesty International, I can't take this torture and abuse of my human rights anymore!
Yeah, he would have renamed it "Amrikastan".
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