Gore to Bush on Iraq: It’s Not About You

With every breath Gore not only makes his ignorance more transparent he demonstrates how much better off the United States is thanks to the outcome of the 2000 election.
His inane and unfounded policies regarding the environment, in addition to his stance on taxation (which is much farther left than that of his ex-White House chief Clinton) would have left the economy in peril after 9/11 and the internet bubble burst.
That combined with his massive ego, which far surpasses that of our current President, would have spelled disaster for America. Chances are very high he would not have reacted with a strong hand following 9/11, exposing Americans to more attacks here on our home soil, something which has not occurred since that tragic day.
Say what you want about the current Bush, at least at night we can all go to sleep sound in the knowledge that there have been no attacks in five years due to his policies. For all those who consider them heavy handed you should consider the facts of the last five years rather than the media fiction that is disseminated each evening and in our now dying print media.

The most relevant response to Gore’s comments is, “Who cares?”. Gore exposed himself as morally anchorless, and his hubris is exceeded only by his complete lack of personality. His willingness to plunge the nation into a 36 day period of succession uncertainty, while his legal team tried ovver and over to include ballots in the count that were never cast, and exclude some that were, is the best evidence that for Gore, it is indeed, “All about me”.

Wait worse….what about when you invented the internet and its effect on global warming?
Al Thanks for saving me from hot weather…You are my hero.

I really cherish inane comments from quite possibly the WORST VP in the history of the United States. Thank GOD, that moron wasn’t President on 9/11!

It’s very easy to say something does not work. During all of the time after 9-11, during the anthrax attacks, during all the dangers fought and avoided, all of the them, Mr. Gore has never offered a solution.
A leader needs to offer solutions, and not be a movie critic. Mr. Gore is not leading.

It’s very easy to say something does not work. During all of the time after 9-11, during the anthrax attacks, during all the dangers fought and avoided, all of the them, Mr. Gore has never offered a solution.
A leader needs to offer solutions, and not be a movie critic. Mr. Gore is not leading.

So Gore thinks that us going to Iraq is “the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the US”. This is odd, I guess he doesn’t consider not getting involved in World War 2 earlier, and probably saving many millions of people from genocide, as a worse mistake.
Then he goes on “worse than the civil war” … apparently for a rich southern boy from Tennessee there ain’t nothing wrong with slavery. I’d say one of the worst mistakes the US made, definitely worse than Iraq, was to permit slavery in the first place, we are still reeling from that mistake over 200 years later!
Brilliant man, I wonder if his grasp of science & global warming is as deep as his grasp of history?

So Gore thinks that us going to Iraq is “the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the US”. This is odd, I guess he doesn’t consider not getting involved in World War 2 earlier, and probably saving many millions of people from genocide, as a worse mistake.
Then he goes on “worse than the civil war” … apparently for a rich southern boy from Tennessee there ain’t nothing wrong with slavery. I’d say one of the worst mistakes the US made, definitely worse than Iraq, was to permit slavery in the first place, we are still reeling from that mistake over 200 years later!
Brilliant man, I wonder if his grasp of science & global warming is as deep as his grasp of history?

Gore/Obama
Now that’s an impressive ticket!

It’s very easy to say something does not work. During all of the time after 9-11, during the anthrax attacks, during all the dangers fought and avoided, all of the them, Mr. Gore has never offered a solution.
A leader needs to offer solutions, and not be a movie critic. Mr. Gore is not leading.

Where does Gore get off criticizing anybody? It was under his watch that Saddam was allowed to kick the weapon inspectors out of Iraq. If the Clinton administration (with its beloved U.N.) had kept the inspectors in Iraq, Bush 43 (and the rest of the world) wouldn’t have had to speculate about what Saddam had or didn’t have after 911.

Gore is such a joke. “All about him” is Gore to a tee. Mr I Invented the Internet and Love Canal is about Me should let the informed adults run the country. We saw how he and Pres Clinton did by cutting the intelligence budget to the bone, and then the consequences of that decision.

Even worse than Seward’s Folly?

Extravagantly embellished statements like these, and one wonders why Gore’s political career isn’t worth spit anymore. It only helps impeach his global warming arguments.

The worst mistake in US History was Al Gore’s mom not following his ideology and having an abortion when she was carrying him…or wait, maybe she did have an abortion and is Al the result? Hmmm. This one is just too close to call. The boy aint right.

Is this a joke? It has to be. Maybe Gore’s history book fell out of his backpack on the way to the 2nd grade. Try the Civil War, Captain Hyperbole.

I like to think the Al Gore conception…

Ahhh, I see…Gore’s been promoted to “Captain Hyperbole” for his Iraq war criticisms by the majority on this Board.
Would then W be fairly labeled “Five Star General Hyperbole” for his laughable premises that seduced this country into falling for the Iraq experiment? I’d guess so.

Al Gore or George Bush, it really does not matter! The president is but a hood ornament. The illuminati are the deciders.

Gore is not content to be president. The failed divinity student sees himself as a priest, in charge of sacrifices to the sun-god.

Worse than slavery? Worse than the civil war? Worse than the internments? If you were on the fence about this guy being a joke, these comments should seal the deal. And for the people defending him still, where were you when this war started? I wrote to my rep telling him my thoughts about it being wrong. Very few listened, including many democrats who are now against the war, which is even worse than being still for the completion of the war.

Al Gore in saying, “the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States”, could only be referring to Al Gore.

I think the attack on our soil (World Trade Center) ranks pretty high on what’s the worst list.

The man wants to save the world even if it isn’t in trouble. I imagine that if he was elected in 2008 he would amazingly stop global warming by signing one or two bills restricting industry polution and banning SUVs. Then claim that after 2 years under his leadership, we are no longer in danger.
Every parody of this man is true. From the Saturday Night Live skits where he claims to technically be the real president to the South Park where he attempts to save the world from Man-Bear-Pig.
I’ve never seen someone so starved for attention except maybe Cindy Sheehan. How much fual does he burn flying all over the world to “educate” people on global warming? Name one idea he has on Iraq besides “find a way to get U.S. troops out of Iraq ‘as quickly as possible without making the situation worse’”. What an amazing idea. I can’t believe that the Bush administration never thought of that. Maybe after saving the world from global warming and fixing Iraq, Al could end poverty and starvation, cure AIDS, and bring about world peace. Pure politician.

The people on this site who post numbers of AMERICAN dead are showing their ignorance and conceit by ommitting the dead of the county’s we have invaded without cause…ie Iraq. The numbers are unknown because (for the first time in modern history) our beloved bush has decided that “enemy” body count is not important. I guess I would too if I ordered the worlds strongest military to attack a nation (without good reason) and then accidentally killed 500,000 innocent civilians.
You republican babies need to stop caring more about your money (economy) than you do about some important things like the lives of humans outside the US borders, or the land and trees that, like it or not, provide the air for you to breathe. If you all think that oxygen will just create itself after we have destroyed our fragile environment, i invite your party to fly off to NASAs new home on the moon, or mars, where we now found water. Maybe there you will realize what a harsh environment is like, and you will start to respect ours.
peace.

Just by way of clarification, Algore did carry his home “state” in 2000. He carried DC by a landslide. Although he maintains a vacation home in Tennessee, there is no way that he could ever be considered a real Tennessean. He is nothing but a pseudointellectual Ivy League poseur who has used a Tennessee address in much the same way as shipping companies register freighters in places like Liberia and Panama under flags of convenience. Tennessee is a Conservative RED STATE that has the good sense to utterly reject this bag of wind.Tennessee decisively repudiated this clown in the same way that it repudiated his utterly corrupt father back in 1970. If he really wants to stop the excessive production of CO2 he should simply hold his breath. We should all be very glad that Tennessee’s vote in 2000 provided the 11 Electoral College votes needed to elect George W. Bush and to prevent Algore from getting into the White House.Algore’s election would have caused incalculable harm to the USA.

All these personal attacks on Gore show how barbaric some of these “civilized” Americans can be.
One can debate whether the Iraq thing is the worst mistake in US history. Americans and Iraqis are all losers in this. But it has certainly produced at least one winner: the Chinese. While the arrogant Americans are so happy with themselves that they are throwing their money and credibility away like mad, the Chinese are very happy to take ths opportunity to play the catch-up game.
Good job Americans. Do not blame Bush. He was elected twice.

Once again the tradgey that was the 2000 “election” is made manifest. Al Gore is clearly more of a public servant than Bush ever could be. Even in defeat he has steadfastly worked to improve the world and the lot of humanity even as Bush as burned and fiddled. When WW III follows Georgie’s misadventure, I hope that all of the fatuous sheep that trotted after this muttonheaded sheppard bear the costs. Of course they won’t. They are all commenting here instead of serving in Iraw. Or serving at all. Ultimately that is the difference between the Bushies and the rest of us: the rest of us realize that the foremost duty of holders of public office is to serve the public. Bush serves no one, not his people, not his god, not humanity, and ultimately not even himself.

What the Gore haters should do is take a long nap…say 20 to 50 years long. When they wake up and read their new history books they will most likely learn that Al was right on both counts of the current administration and global warming. That is, if the planet hasn’t killed off a few billion of them because of our current folly.

Gore is an idiot. Nevertheless he gets to spout his nonesense to his willing allies in the press, without comment.

Worst VP in U.S. history? What, were you idiots asleep when we had a guy named “Quayle” in the office?
With wunderkind like this on the Internet, it’s no wonder that reality TV is a huge success.
You’re now free to going back to being afraid of Hillary and her lady parts.

Gore hit the nail on the head. I’ve been a professional historian for more than three decades, and I can’t summon up a self-inflicted foreign policy disaster worse than the invasion of Iraq. With the other disasters their authors can plead ignorance. They had no way of knowing things would turn out as they did. With Iraq, every setback envisioned by the uniformed military, foreign policy establishment, and area specialists has come to the pass. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld can’t say they weren’t warned. They were–in spades. Yet they blundered in anyway. Talk about hubris. We’re beyond partisanship here, or should be. There were a lot of Republicans who were leery of the invasion but were stampeded into this misconceived adventure by the White House. How we extricate America from Iraq is the challenge facing Republicans and Democrats alike. The Baker-Hamilton commission gives me some hope. But it is diminishing by the day. I’ve never been more worried for the safety of the republic. As tumultuous as the politics of the Vietnam War were, the stakes seem limited in comparison to the potential for world-shattering crisis in the energy-rich Middle East.

Having myself served in Iraq, I can tell you that I do believe that it is one of the biggest mistakes this country has ever made. Perhaps not THE biggest, but one of them. And the civl war was not a MISTAKE. You people need to brush up on your OWN history. It was unavoidable, as the socieities of the south and north were growing so far from each other. No CHOICE was made to initiate the war by a sitting US President.

From a Bush Fan, Iraq is a mess, but the Dems have not offered one productive suggestion from day one. I have to wonder how far along we would be in Iraq if the Dems had supported the effort and sought victory even at the expense of making Pres. Bush look good. Folks like Gore have done everything they can to make this the worst blunder in US foreign policy history regardless of consequences for our security or our troops. Gore has not once offered a viable plan for protecting this country and destroying terrorists. His and others hatred for Pres. Bush has become their defining characteristic and trumps all other objectives such as victory in Iraq and over terrorists.

I am ashamed that some of you call yourselves Americans.
Your extremely slanted and shallow views are so easily countered, yet you are 100% positive you are correct. And there is no point proving you wrong as you will refuse to listen anyway..
That is the biggest problem with GW Bush as well, and you simply can’t see it.
I am no fan of Gore, but to say things like we’ve not been attacked in 5 years BECAUSE of GW’s policies is a LOL JOKE.
You have no way to prove it was GW that kept us from attack, if anything it’s been pure LUCK that we haven’t.
You also cannot prove it wasn’t luck that kept us from being attacked.
So, if we do get another major attack, how well will you be defending the Bush administration?
I can answer that actually, you will continue to support and follow him into disaster like the sheep you are.
Sickening all of you with absolutely no ability to form your own opinion or accept that our leader could possibly be wrong, about anything..
Simply sickening that you call yourselves Americans.

Of course there have been no attacks on the US homeland since 911. By invading and occupying Irag, Bush and Co. have effectively parterned up with Al Qaeda in creating the ultimate terrorist training camp; Islamic terrorists are getting real-life experience in the streets on Iraq. Not only has the Iraq invasion played right into the hands of Al Qaeda, but it also fuels Islamic terror from an ideological perspective thus strengthening the cause of Jihad. American imperialism is at the root of this misadventure. It’s sad when a country loses the values it fought so valiently to establish. That the US administration believes that it is above all international law and can act outside the jurisdiction of international courts is yet another sickening reality. Because of Bush and his policies of agression in the name of anticipatory self defense, including his disregard for the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the world is now on the brink of an arms race. Americans should be very proud of their President for making the US a safer place indeed.

Obviously, this country is still full of retards if we have people thinking that Gore is worse than this freak show at the top currently and if people still believe that Rove lie about Gore saying he invented the internet. Use your brains people. Bush sucks, and he’s a disaster.

Gore is right. This war was the most stupid exercise in the history of America by the most stupid president in the history of America. I tremble for this country over the next two years. Who knows what damage this sociopathic moron might do. George W Bush is a disgraceful embarrassment to the people and the history of America.

I’m sure all the “GOP’s” (those are the “Gullible Oprah People” are all worked up after Uncle Al dazzled them all with his doom and gloom Powerpoint charts and nifty graphics, showing the spellbound audience what will happen when Greenland melts on her show yesterday. I was amazed (well, maybe not) that everyone was suckered in by this. As usual, Oprah has a guest on the program that claims to have all the answers, and her and the audience fall for the claptrap.

Hmmm…what about sitting-by as hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were slashed to death. That was sort of a mistake. Oh, oh, and also that whole thing where we failed to enforce any resolutions on Iraq in the 90′s which allowed the situation to escalate to the current predicament. Oh, hey, yeah, and there was also that pesky letting Al Qaeda & OBL plot their attack unfettered thing. Not sure if any of those would qualify as the WORST mistake in our history, but they might all be a bit worse than Iraq. I would submit that our worst mistake took place in November 1992.

I’ve never seen 52 comments at
one time on this page before.
ALL Anti-Gore, doesn’t that seem strange to you? Like someone (or group) posted all at nearly the same time???? Seems like a Radical right wing Comment bomb to me. A comment version of the phone jamming fraud sceme the Republicans were convicted of, excuse me, settled out of court. How pathetic and transparent you are.
GO AL GORE!!! This patriotic American supports you!

It still amazes me how many liberals do not have college degrees (or street smarts.)

These attacks on Gore are moronic.
If Gore said the sky was blue on a sunny day, this gaggle would denounce him as a dupe to the color blue and an agent of the sun out to get moral americans and prevent their right to behave like idiots

“But Iraq.. again, WHAT do you think we are we going to get out of this that is worth fighting for?”
Posted by: JR | Dec 6, 2006 1:57:16 PM
we got not getting nuked by Saddam, which in my most humble opinion is pretty nice.

iraq may be a mess ….. but its not even close to our biggest mistake. leaving iraq unfinish will be even a bigger mistake …you think things are bad now.

Whine? And now after the elections America votes for the Democratic Hill run by the sane? Al Gore is the least of our problems. Just wait till next year. America will pull out of Iraq and leave a huge mess to excite the Democrat partisan proof against Bush. Thanks guys…..

Al Bore, I mean Al Gore: The biggest mistake in the history of the USA was electing Bill Clinton as president and you as vice president. You had your time of power and couldn’t even utilize it properly. Now you want a second chance? Go eat some endangered crow!

Most posters here evidently think attacking the messenger negates the truth of the message. But that is a well known logical fallacy called argument ad hominem.
Moreover, Gore’s opinion is not unique to him, but is shared by many military and political figures of note that are not so easily lied about and falsely caricatured.
General Odom (US Army, retired) was Reagan’s head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and he has said the same thing. Other former very senior Reagan and Bush 41 administration figures have said the same thing.
This assertion of Gore’s is most likely entirely true, and these lists of supposed faults and sins of Al Gore as a politician and a person do nothing to counter the claim. It’s as if we are to take ‘shut up!!!’ and a litany of insults as an argument.
The minimal attempts at providing counterexamples (delaying the entry into WW II, slavery, our civil war, et al.) are pitifully weak.

As a Republican, I am looking forward to another Gore presidential campaign. In my best dreams Hillary, Al Bore, and John Kerry are all screaming at each other in the Democratic debates.

Johnny Culver @ 2:00:46
Racist? $20 says this teacher is!!!

Al Gore has no feet left to put in his mouth. He put them in so much that they rotted off.

Wow! So many responses, some good, some just plan stupid – I’ll try to be brief.
1) If my memory serves me correctly didn’t Saddam have a chance to back down, to let inspectors in? He did but no, no, no…Instead, he had to play tough guy and keep breaking one UN resolutions after another….He could have played nice, he didn’t, now the bully will get his due….
2) The global warming he-haw? I haven’t checked but has Al Gore visited the countries that really need help when it comes to pollution? China, Korea, Mexico, and India come to mind (the list would go on and on)…If “global” warming is such a menace then why is the “global” focus and the “global” blame being put on America?
3) It’s about FREEDOM and keeping it. Those of you who rip on President Bush…right on…you’re FREE to do that. Now take your FREEDOM to Iran…rip on that president…your head will roll…speak your mind when Saddam was in power and you might get thrown off a three story building or better yet executed while your family watches…
I said I’d be brief so one last thing – Remember the situation today is simply shaping tomorrow…there is a chain of events and they didn’t start with Bush….
Until next time…Stay FREE!
PS. If you see Al Bore, tell him he is an idiot for me!

THE FACT THAT SO MANY POSTERS DISLIKE GORE MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT HE MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING.

Al Gore loves making extreme statements, that what his whole movie is about, so little wonder that he calls the President the worst ever. How many times did we hear in 2004 that this was the most important election of our lifetime from the Democrats? Same thing. No real answers come from anyone. On the one side, liberals like Gore come up with stupid solutions like, “Let’s get our troops out as soon as possible without causing problems.” Not really a solution is it. Just a nice fantasy. On the other side Republicans want to “stay the course as long as it takes.” Not really a solution either. I’ve got a solution, go through each city and make every person in it show identification papers, then take all the people who are not Iraqi citizens and do not have paperwork showing legal rights to be in the country, and expel them. At least this would get rid of all the “insurgents” we here about that are not Iraqi in the nation indiscriminately killing citizens (I love when people talk about all the citizens killed in Iraq and blame it on the U.S. I’m sure our bombs did kill plenty of civilians, but you’ve got to be kidding if you don’t think the radical Islamic fundamentalists aren’t indiscriminately killing Iraqi civilians for propaganda purposes. They already did in New York, D.C., Pennsylvania, Spain, London, Lebanon, Israel, etc…). The truth is radical Islamic fundamentalists are using Iraq as the battleground for their hatred and perverted idealogy to take over the world. Simply leaving and allowing them to win symbolically and control a staging ground for their hatred would simply produce another “Taliban-like” regime that would produce 9-11 type attacks on the free world in the future, and hence is not an option worthy of consideration. Wake up and see the enemy, and realize that he doesn’t reside in either the White House or in Congress, but in the hearts and minds of the evil empire known as radical Islam.

Back in the late 70′s, the environmentlist concern was global cooling. Now it is global warming. Did Gore invent Global Warming when he was elected in the 80′s? Some studies have indicated that trees are a cause of global warming. So if we kill about half the tree population then that may stop global warming. Did man’s discovery of fire start global warming and reverse the Ice Age? Unconfirmed reports from DC are that Pres. Bush is going to apologize for his mistakes, bring the troops home, make Islam the state religion to appease the Islamo-Facists, and take away all liberties not in accordance w/ Islamic law. Beheadings of all Judeo-Christian leaders and unconverted infidels will start 01Jan07. Allah is Great. Praise the Islamic States of America.

I pity the poor students who have a history teacher that calls criticism of Al Gore racism….do you even know what the word means? I have a distinct feeling that most of the posts no this site against Al Gore are from people of the same race…..go back to college and learn something as you sure can’t teach our kids…

Why do do the the so-called “smart people” of America {eg-newspersons and college teachers) continue to broadcast the rantings of a FOOL. That would be Gore

Once again Al Gorleone has established himself as class idiot. Too say that this was the worst strategic mistake in US history defies logic. What about the treaty of Versailles Mr. Gorleone. That mistake cost over 100 Million lives between 1935 and 1945. The US has made mistakes as we are not perfect but we STRIVE to be. Mr. Gore you are a dispicable person and to say to our troops who are fighting and dting for us are doing it for a mistake is just plane SEDICIOUS and you sir should swing from the gallows!

So Al thinks the Iraq war was worse than slavery. I would say that was the US’s worst mistake.
Al Gore Rythmn (algorithym). Yeah!!!

I would say the Iraq is maybe not the worst, but one of the biggest mistakes of the history for the US. Part of the problem is the mentality some individuals like Geaorge Bush have; The assumption that he knows it all and thinks he is doing the right thing, without considering all the aspects of the situation in Iraq.
The reason why America cannot win this war or “accomplish the task” is strictly that: Iraq is not America. The dictator (Saddam) is out of the picture, so now sunnis and shiiates are back to killing oneanother. So, in many ways Bush made the matters worse for the Iraqis. That is the result of a now-it-all attitude combined with kneejerk-mindset and fabricated dictatorship which Bush has become in America. By the way, America is not the center of the Universe… someone tell that to mr. Bush…
Sorry about all the lives lost thus far…and we will still see about 100 american lives lost each month….for no reason….

Thank you, republicans, for flaunting your stupidity for all of us in your comments–as if we don’t have enough examples in the headlines every day. I don’t know one person who isn’t worse off than they were before Bush stole the election (the 1st time). I have to wonder how things would have been different if Gore hadn’t been scammed out of the office.

While many people still are trying to make up their minds about Iraq lets remember that the Defense Inteeligence Agency stated months before the invasion that there was no credible evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq posed no threat to the United States. General Tommy Franks who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or in other words the most Senior Military Man in the Country advised Bush against invading Iraq because he said there was nothing to gain and much to lose. Open your eyes and see what have we gained. We have lost 3000 brave young men dead and 20,000 wounded most of these are seriously wounded or totally disabled.
Charlie

To Ryan, who said that to liberals no one is responsible for 9/11 other than us: No, Ryan, last I checked it was a widely published fact that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11–please tell me when he lived in Iraq?

Al Gore confuses Bush with Bubba

Thats the only conclusion I could come to after reading this tripe (emphasis added):
ABC News Teddy Davis Reports: Calling the Iraq war the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States and worse …

Please Bush: Resign now!

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It is interesting to read all these comments from people who call them selves Americans. I am an Australian and for years have wondered at the stupidity, greed and ignorance of the right wing in that country. If America goes down the tube which it looks like it is doing, it couldn’t happen to a more worthy bunch of people.
When you are not busy wrecking your own country, you are invading other countries and spreading your dis ease all over the planet.
Al Gore is a breathe of fresh air.
It is my opinion that the citizens of the world should all vote for the American president, because Americans seem to be unable to pick any good ones. Is America so lacking in talent that George Bush is the best they have to offer? You have got the president you deserve. But did the rest of us deserve him as well. I don’t think so.