I’ve said before that Al Gore has the distinct quality among modern politicians of being right on nearly every major issue, years before they become popular. It was true on the environment. It was true on terrorism. And it was true on Iraq, where Al ….

No, it’s not what you think….not by a long shot.
The date was Sept. 29, 1992. In this video…
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No, it’s not what you think….not by a long shot.
The date was Sept. 29, 1992. In this video…
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Only good for insomnia.

On his, and others’ flip-flopping, I hold the media and dummies who believe these elitists accountable for the inability to put it together and make them answer on the Sunday shows. Alas, I’m just dreaming…

September 23, 2002: Gore Blamed The Previous George H.W. Bush Administration For Prematurely Abandoning Its Military Effort Against Iraq And For Allowing Saddam Hussein To Stay In Power. “Now, back in 1991, I was one of a handful of Democrats in the United States Senate to vote in favor of the resolution endorsing the Persian Gulf War. And I felt betrayed by the first Bush administration’s hasty departure from the battlefield, even as Saddam began to renew his persecution of the Shiites and Kurds, groups that we had after all encouraged to rise up against Saddam . . . . Now, a mere two years later, after we abandoned Afghanistan that first time, Saddam Hussein launched his invasion of Kuwait. And our decision, following a brilliant military campaign, to abandon the effort prematurely to destroy Saddam’s military allowed him to remain in power. Now, this needs to be debated and discussed by the Congress. You know, what this tells me is that the Congress should require as part of any resolution that it considers some explicit guarantees on whether or not we’re proposing to simply abandon the Iraqi people in the aftermath of a military victory there, or whether or not we’re going to demand as a nation that this doctrine of ‘wash your hands and walk away’ be changed so that we can engage in some nation building again and build the kind of peace for the future that our people have a right to expect.” (Al Gore, Remarks To The Commonwealth Club Of California, San Francisco, CA, September 23, 2002)

Gore Debating in 1992 on this

plus he’s on record in 1998 “Regime Change” policy and in 2000 I beleive on the need to remove saddam.

Certainly Gore has changed his tune and his tone for political reasons, as most of the Democrats have done, but I don’t see any evidence in that video that Gore supported either an invasion or regime change.

Al Gore making the case for Saddam being linked to terror…back in 1992 when it was important…

Nothing compared to what’ll be in a few years, when the Inconvenient Truth becomes a very inconvenient movie. That will be a blast from the past that will make this gem look trivial

I already envision Global Warming’s place in introductory science textbooks next to an explanation of the scientific method, along with cautionary tales of perpetual motion machines and Rube Goldberg devices.

jp on June 12, 2007 at 5:19 PM:

and the only way to be anymore aggressive in first gulf war would be to take saddam out.

Exactly. Which is what I thought should have been done in the first Gulf War. I actually agreed with Gore back then that GHWB hadn’t done enough to check (i.e. overthrow) Saddam.

Problem is, I still hold that position, and Mr. Gore has been blown hither and yon by the shifting winds of partisan political advantage.

What part of “ZOMG THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILED MISERABLY BY NOT TAKING MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION ON IRAQ WHICH IS A TERRORIST STATE WITH DESIGNS ON WMD’s!1one!eleven!!!!” did you not understand?

Citizen Duck on June 12, 2007 at 5:06 PM

and the only way to be anymore aggressive in first gulf war would be to take saddam out.

And from Rush to Drudge/Breitbart…seems like it’s going to get at least some play.

Oh, yeah, Citizen Duck. And once in a while, just eeeev’ry so often, something gets so much play on the blogosphere that it becomes newsworthy. Not the story itself, of course, but the story of how the story became newsworthy, you know, the converage of the coverage. But as long as the u-tubes don’t deem it “inappropriate,” it might just leave a mark on the Gorebot. Nothing compared to what’ll be in a few years, when the Inconvenient Truth becomes a very inconvenient movie. That will be a blast from the past that will make this gem look trivial.

NPP on June 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM

What part of “ZOMG THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILED MISERABLY BY NOT TAKING MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION ON IRAQ WHICH IS A TERRORIST STATE WITH DESIGNS ON WMD’s!1one!eleven!!!!” did you not understand?