THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT; Gore Says Bush Betrayed the U.S. by Using 9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq

New York Times ^ | Feb. 9, 2004 | Katharine Q. Seelye

[conservative98]

In a withering critique of the Bush administration, former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday accused the president of betraying the country by using the Sept. 11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq.

''He betrayed this country!'' Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. ''He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place.''

The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer.

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Mr. Gore said he was ready to break his silence about his disagreements with the Bush administration before the Sept. 11 attacks, but afterward he threw his speech in the trash.

But then the war in Iraq came, and he felt betrayed. ''It is not a minor matter to take the loyalty and deep patriotic feelings of the American people and trifle with them,'' he declared, adding with a shout: ''The truth shall rise again.''

General Clark followed Mr. Gore with a notably tamer speech. But he honored Mr. Gore, saying, ''The 2000 election was stolen from the Democratic Party,'' and that Mr. Gore ''would have been and should have been a great president.''

[Sequoyah101]

So the sex poodle is getting lonely again?

Not getting enough attention al?

Aren’t you getting way too old for tantrums and other assorted BS?

Here is a red hot poker. Stick it and spin you putz.

[conservative98]

Also, note the New York Times and the Democrat party saying the election was stolen and rigged.

[dfwgator]

And Gore would have had us in Iraq just as well. He made plenty of statements about Saddam having WMD, along with many other Rats. He was just upset that Bush got to be a “wartime President” and he didn’t.

[DIRTYSECRET]

He’s right you know.

[usafa92]

The article is from 2004. That said, Gore was correct.

[C210N]

9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq

911 bush school kite plane must hit steel

[realcleanguy]

I almost forgot about old Al, the guy who got busted not paying a prostitute in his hotel room that led to his divorce.....

[dfwgator]

Some choice we had, eh?

[LibertyFlame76]

This is why the American right is done for
Soviet KBG/FSB Putinist propaganda took long enough now has had its effect the Russian psy op their propaganda on the American right has been a total success.
Now that American right has been subbed they’re free to do whatever they want they’re in control the American right and left are theirs the American people brain washed sheeple Gone is America she’s gone
Good is now evil and evil is good destruction will be our lot.

RIP America 1776 to 2021 destroyed not by Democrats or Al Gore but by the American right who blindly bought into the Gnostic lies of distorted conspiracy theorists misinformation put out by our enemies.

[Republican Wildcat]

Ah yes...the old talking points the Dems invented against Bush. Remember these well...as though all of those news reports, intelligence reports, etc. that existed before Bush every became President linking Saddam to terrorism never existed. News media orgs could not even remember their own reporting on the issue.

Here’s one such report of this nature - there used to more than could be found from the 1990s but difficult to find if they are still around at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7n3ivH3pCQ

[hercuroc]

Manbearpig resurrected to to show how he can foresee things.
Next we’ll hear his wisdom on global warming.

[LibertyFlame76]

Yep 9/11 was all an inside job
Bush lied people died
Islam really isn’t all that
We stole billions billions of oil from Iraq Saddam Hussein was never a bad guy.
Iran doesn’t want nukes that’s all Jewish propaganda put out by the WWIII Neocons
Putin is a nationalist Christian conservative Russia is a Christian nation
The moon landing was fake
North Korea is not really a communist nation but a Christian nation long to be free from NWO those aren’t nuke ICBM they have those are all SpaceX rockets.
Cuba protests are a Neocon plot
China really isn’t all that bad either /S

[conservative98]

Those were the days.

2000:

2004:

GOP tries to pull a ‘Dukakis’ on Kerry
Republicans ridiculed Democrat John Kerry’s primary campaign contortions about the war on Iraq on Tuesday and handed out pictures of Kerry clad in a hooded blue anti-contamination suit as he climbed out of a NASA space shuttle orbiter.

Rumsfeld passed away a couple months ago. At least didn't have to see Afghanistan collapse.

[The Right Edge]

OH! I agree! But what this liar doesn’t say, is that he would’ve done the same damned thing!!! Lying politicians... SCUM!

[SpaceBar]

He was right. However I suppose if you throw enough feces around, eventually one will stick. That said, this country doesn’t seem to learn from its mistakes.

[kiryandil]

I knew I hadn't seen the byline of that old Times bag Katherine Q. Seelye in a while...

[irishjuggler]

I dutifully voted for the Bushes in the general elections of ‘88, ‘92, ‘00 and ‘04 (though never in the primaries). I always figured that they were better than the Dems, and that was probably true, but I’m not afraid to admit that Bush 41 & 43 did a lot of damage to this country. Their coddling of China and their wars of aggression in Iraq & Afghanistan cost thousands of lives and accomplished little. The Bushes were not good presidents. The only good presidents in my living memory have been Reagan and Trump.

[LouAvul]

Weird post for a really new newbie. I don’t know if you’ll be around long. What was your earlier screen name?

[HandBasketHell]

The media can Bush bash all they want. Can’t stand that whole family now since they revealed they voted for Hillary in 2016. All because Trump soundly beat Jeb! for the nomination. Petty, bitter, and Assistant Democrats, all of them.