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Yes, all the above cr*p still would have happened plus Americans and our economy would have been hit even harder by the carbon tax imposed under a Gore administration.
Would 9/11 had still happened?
Would we have had several wars?
Would Katrina had gone a little better?
Would the economy had tanked?
What if...?
Discuss
you mean gore the lame puppet
911...still would have happened...was planned under the clinton era
wars....??? gore would have been to chicken to avenge 911..iraq would still be training terrorists, and ...well iran...gore helped broker iran getting plutioium and uranium to begin with
katrina....FEMA was cut drasticly under clinton...the hurricaine would have still hit...nagan (the lousy mayor) would have still screwed up
the economy...well the two main problems were....JOBS and realestate...nafta was a clinton/gore baby...and the RE market was also from clinton policies
so......still a 911.but no BL death....no wars from us but the ME would still be at war with us...NO (a city UNDER the sealevel) would have still been destroyed and the economy would be futher in the tank
Doubtful. Gore would have taken Clinton's intelligence reports seriously that Bin Laden was planning a terror attack, and stopped it before it happened. Unlike W that couldn't care less, he was busy doing what he did best, he was on vacation.
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Would we have had several wars?
9/11 never would have happened, so there never would have been a reason to invade Afghanistan let alone the false war in Iraq.
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Would Katrina had gone a little better?
Absolutely. Gore would have had all hands on deck after Katrina, not ignore them for about a week like W did.
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Would the economy had tanked?
Not at all, the economy would continue to soar like it did under Clinton. If Gore had his 8 years in office, we would be well on our way to being debt-free by now.
Doubtful. Gore would have taken Clinton's intelligence reports seriously that Bin Laden was planning a terror attack, and stopped it before it happened. Unlike W that couldn't care less, he was busy doing what he did best, he was on vacation.
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In August 2002 Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser, discusses US strategy in dealing with islamic terrorists:
RICHARD CLARKE: Actually, I've got about seven points, let me just go through them quickly. Um, the first point, I think the overall point is, there was no plan on Al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration.
Second point is that the Clinton administration had a strategy in place, effectively dating from 1998. And there were a number of issues on the table since 1998. And they remained on the table when that administration went out of office -- issues like aiding the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, changing our Pakistan policy -- uh, changing our policy toward Uzbekistan. And in January 2001, the incoming Bush administration was briefed on the existing strategy. They were also briefed on these series of issues that had not been decided on in a couple of years.
And the third point is the Bush administration decided then, you know, in late January, to do two things. One, vigorously pursue the existing policy, including all of the lethal covert action findings, which we've now made public to some extent.
And the point is, while this big review was going on, there were still in effect, the lethal findings were still in effect. The second thing the administration decided to do is to initiate a process to look at those issues which had been on the table for a couple of years and get them decided.
So, point five, that process which was initiated in the first week in February, uh, decided in principle, uh in the spring to add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after Al Qaeda.
The sixth point, the newly-appointed deputies -- and you had to remember, the deputies didn't get into office until late March, early April. The deputies then tasked the development of the implementation details, uh, of these new decisions that they were endorsing, and sending out to the principals.
Over the course of the summer -- last point -- they developed implementation details, the principals met at the end of the summer, approved them in their first meeting, changed the strategy by authorizing the increase in funding five-fold, changing the policy on Pakistan, changing the policy on Uzbekistan, changing the policy on the Northern Alliance assistance.
And then changed the strategy from one of rollback with Al Qaeda over the course of five years, which it had been, to a new strategy that called for the rapid elimination of Al Qaeda. That is in fact the timeline.
JIM ANGLE: You're saying that the Bush administration did not stop anything that the Clinton administration was doing while it was making these decisions, and by the end of the summer had increased money for covert action five-fold. Is that correct?
CLARKE: All of that's correct.
ANGLE: So, just to finish up if we could then, so what you're saying is that there was no -- one, there was no plan; two, there was no delay; and that actually the first changes since October of '98 were made in the spring months just after the administration came into office?
CLARKE: You got it. That's right.
Richard A. Clarke
Former chief counter-terrorism adviser
August, 2002
Absolutely. Gore would have had all hands on deck after Katrina, not ignore them for about a week like W did.
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gore was instrmental in CUTTING fema
bush declared the area a emergancvy BEFORE the hurricanin hit..the MAYOR and GOVERNOR failed
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