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Did not everyone with an R next to their name support the war? Were the architects of this abysmal failure not Republicans?
Bush = the ultimate failure
HUH? I thought it was Obama's war now. He's had enough time to change it's direction. I see how it is, if we are losing it's Bush's war but if we are winning it's Obama's war.
HUH? I thought it was Obama's war now. He's had enough time to change it's direction. I see how it is, if we are losing it's Bush's war but if we are winning it's Obama's war.
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Former Clinton Vice-President
Speech to San Francisco Commonwealth Club
September 23, 2002
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Al Gore said last night that the time had come for a "final reckoning" with Iraq, describing the country as a "virulent threat in a class by itself" and suggesting that the United States should consider ways to oust Saddam Hussein.
"Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table."
The New York Times
Gore, Championing Bush, Calls For a 'Final Reckoning' With Iraq
February 13, 2002
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"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Former Clinton Vice-President
Speech to San Francisco Commonwealth Club
September 23, 2002
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Al Gore said last night that the time had come for a "final reckoning" with Iraq, describing the country as a "virulent threat in a class by itself" and suggesting that the United States should consider ways to oust Saddam Hussein.
"Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table."
The New York Times
Gore, Championing Bush, Calls For a 'Final Reckoning' With Iraq
February 13, 2002
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All of that is nice, but the bottom line is that the president made the case for war, executed it (poorly), and watched as his administration made a mess of it with poor planning and no strategy or endgame.
No WMD? Fine...but that was no excuse for bungling the whole damn thing and leaving the country with practically nothing accomplished. I mean, is that what 4500 troops died for?
[SIZE=4]But while many Democrats and some on the Left
are eager to challenge the Bush-Clinton New World Order, Vice
President Gore is not among them. Mr. Gore is a Wilsonian in full. He
exhibits a New Republic-style lust for cruise missile strikes on
"rogue nations." He was all for the war on Serbia. Nor did he allow a
ray of daylight to open up between himself and Mr. Clinton on
sanctions against Iraq or the strikes against that poison gas factory
in Sudan, that turned out to be a pharmaceutical plant. [/SIZE]
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Mr. Gore is also an acolyte of the New World Order, ever ready to cede
American sovereignty, and an architect of Clinton's Kyoto Treaty, under
which global bureaucrats would dictate America's use of fossil fuels.
When young Americans perished in a tragic accident over Iraq, Gore
reflexively offered his condolences to the families of those who,
quote, "had died in the service of the United Nations." [/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]
Quo Vadis? Where are you going, America? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]
Because of our sanctions on scores of nations, cruise missile strikes
upon others, and intervention in the internal affairs of still others
in the wake of the Cold War, a seething resentment of America is brewing
all over the world. And the haughty attitude of our foreign policy elite
only nurses the hatred. Hearken, if you will, to the voice of our own
Xenia, Madeline Albright, announcing new air strikes on Iraq: "If we
have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable
nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future." [/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][/SIZE]
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Now I count myself an American patriot. But if this Beltway braggadocio
about being the world's "indispensable nation" has begun to grate on
me, how must it grate upon the Europeans, Russians, and peoples subject
to our sanctions because they have failed, by our lights, to live up
to our standards? [/SIZE]
Come on, boys! Let's go liberate the $&@& out of that place- AGAIN! What would this be- Surge III???
(My condolences to anyone who lost friends and loved ones fighting in Bush's sandbox- they didn't make the policy, just fought for the guys next to them, like soldiers always do)
Maybe if we had fought for a win instead of just quitting and pulling out this might NOT have happened!
And I will correct your slight omission. I know it was a mistake and not done on purpose.
" fighting in Bush's sandbox"
Dem's who voted FOR the wars:
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE)Current VP
Breaux (D-LA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA) Clinton (D-NY)Current Sec of state (Labeled Smartest women in the world by many lefties) Daschle (D-SD)Leader of the Senate at the time and co-sponsored the bill Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND) Edwards (D-NC) Ran for VP
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Ran for Pres.
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA) Lieberman (D-CT)Ran for Pres.
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV) Current leader of the Senate
Rockefeller (D-WV) Schumer (D-NY)
Torricelli (D-NJ)
I wonder how many you supported and voted for? Probably twice for Biden. But, hey, I know you didn't mean it.
We would have done the same stupid thing with Gore in office.
Likely as we now Gore is just full of rhetoric that is advantageous to himself at any given time.
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