Would We be in a Better Place if Gore Won?

[Correia]

Something else to think about, if Gore had won, the liberal supreme court justices that are currently hanging on by their finger nails would have already retired so that Gore could appoint some younger judges to take their place.

And we also don't know if the repubs would have the stranglehold they have on congress right now if Gore had won either. So in theory it wouldn't neccesarily be dem prez, and both houses repub, but rather it could be dem, and two houses evenly divided.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very ticked at my own party right now. All of American politics has taken a huge leap to the left. Frankly both parties disgust me, just the dems are worse, and trying to rewrite history so that they look good is just silly.

As for Gore preventing 911. Whatever. During Clinton we had the Cole, the first World Trade Center bombing, two African embassies, and a bunch of other assorted plots and problems.

Our solution to this was to bomb a drug factory in Sudan and bomb the hell out of some camps in Afghanistan. Unfortunatly the aspirin factory turned out to be innocent, and one of the camps was filled with Pakistanis that were allies of the US.

We had multiple chances to kill Bin Laden during the Clinton era, including an offer to have him picked up and turned over to us by the Sudanese government, much like Carlos the Jackal was turned over to the French. We didn't take them up on the offer.

We gutted our intelligence gathering abilities by not utilizing any foreign agents who might have violated people's human rights, like that isn't common in the 3rd world.

Arafat was a constant visitor to the White House, to bad he was a terrorist scumbag piece of trash then, and remains so now. Kissing one terrorist's butt can only encourage all of the others.

 

[straightwall]

Gore would have sent the Taliban to sesitivity training and Sadam would still be Supreme Ruler in Iraq because guns make Gore uncomfortable. Gore couldn't even win his pro-gun homestate of TN!

After campaigning on the virtues of small government, I am dismayed that George W. had NEVER met a spending bill he didn't like. And thanks GW for giving us back our huge budget deficit.



We need to STOP being the World Police Force and quit handing out billions of our tax dollars a year in aid to foreign nations. If they are gonna hate the USA, then let 'em hate us broke.

 

[mrapathy2000]

Gore?



he would probably appease the terrorist to get them off our backs.

 

[Henry]

"Would We Be In A Better Place If Gore Won?"

Now I get it. This is a humor post. Pretty funny!

 

[buzz_knox]

No.

9/11 would have happened, if for no other reason than because under Clinton, nothing was ever done to go after Bin Laden. After the '93 WTC attacks, the embassy bombings, the Cole attack, Clinton still made a decision not to go after Bin Laden. All this "Clinton tried to be tough on terrrorism but the Republicans wouldn't let him" is a flat out lie. Clinton made an overt decision when given Bin Laden on a silver platter to let him go. That is what emboldened the 9/11 terrorist to act. All this crap about "Gore would have implemented this or that plan" ignores the fact that the 9/11 plot was carried out before any gov't plan could have been put in place in a "peacetime" environment.

As for what would have happened post-9/11, there would have been committee after committee to ascertain what occurred, and it would have been treated as a law enforcement matter. Once (and if) Bin Laden were identified (iffy because would Gore actually allow him identified knowing that Clinton had let him go repeatedly?), we would have demanded that anyone who had him extradite him. When Afghanistan (assuming it came forward and admitted his presence there) refused, you really think that internationalist Al Gore would have invaded and conquered that country to get him? No way.

Simply put, Al Gore is a nightmare as is and President Gore is an abomination I can't conceive of happening.

 

[w4rma]

9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2003

(CBS) For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston.

"This is a very, very important part of history and we've got to tell it right," said Thomas Kean.

"As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done," he said. "This was not something that had to happen."

Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame.

"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed," Kean said.

To find out who failed and why, the commission has navigated a political landmine, threatening a subpoena to gain access to the president's top-secret daily briefs. Those documents may shed light on one of the most controversial assertions of the Bush administration – that there was never any thought given to the idea that terrorists might fly an airplane into a building.

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," said national security adviser Condoleeza Rice on May 16, 2002.

"How is it possible we have a national security advisor coming out and saying we had no idea they could use planes as weapons when we had FBI records from 1991 stating that this is a possibility," said Kristen Breitweiser, one of four New Jersey widows who lobbied Congress and the president to appoint the commission.

The widows want to know why various government agencies didn't connect the dots before Sept. 11, such as warnings from FBI offices in Minnesota and Arizona about suspicious student pilots.

"If you were to tell me that two years after the murder of my husband that we wouldn't have one question answered, I wouldn't believe it," Breitweiser said.

Kean admits the commission also has more questions than answers.

Asked whether we should at least know if people sitting in the decision-making spots on that critical day are still in those positions, Kean said, "Yes, the answer is yes. And we will."

Kean promises major revelations in public testimony beginning next month from top officials in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, National Security Agency and, maybe, President Bush and former President Clinton.

© MMIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55118

 

[kentucky bucky]

You gun owners that even suggest that the rabid leftist Al Gore would have been anything but pitiful as a president astound me. Bush bashing has become a obsession for liberals around the country, and the idea of serious gun rights advocates getting in lockstep with leftist pansies disgusts me. George Bush hasn't done everything in my agenda, but he is on the right track. I can tell by the liberal nut cases that are frothing at the mouth.

God bless George W. Bush

 

[Airedale1]

By Kentucky BuckyI can tell by the liberal nut cases that are frothing at the mouth.

There is an old adage about lawyers preparing for trial that advises, "If you can't pound the facts, pound the law; if you can't pound the law, pound the facts; and, if you can't pound either, pound the table."

The Libs are now hitting the table with a sledge hammer :banghead:

When was the last time you heard one mention the "Bush economy?" Not lately Now they are saying in desperation that the economy is "growing too fast." It's just sad really.

 

[Steel]

Would We be in a Better Place if Gore Won?

Yes, if you desire a godless, secular, socialist remnant of former America, with a decaying military, diminished sovereignty, higher taxes, increase in the welfare state, et cetera.

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Here ya go. Mark Steyn weighs in. Roll out the visqueen

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004441

And, of course, it would not be complete without disembowlment by Ann Coulter.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20031218.shtml

 

[JohnBT]

Would I be in a better place if Gore had won?

Yeah, probably Costa Rica.

John