Now another video has surfaced from around the same time. This one is of Al Gore arguing in favour of attacking Iraq and critcising the Bush Sr Administration for ignoring Iraq's links with terrorism.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
How minds change... part deux
Back in August a video surfaced of Vice-President Dick Cheney saying that if America had gone to Baghdad in 1990 the US would have been caught in "quagmire". As one would imagine, the video spread through the left-wing anti-war blogsophere like wild fire.
Now another video has surfaced from around the same time. This one is of Al Gore arguing in favour of attacking Iraq and critcising the Bush Sr Administration for ignoring Iraq's links with terrorism.
Now another video has surfaced from around the same time. This one is of Al Gore arguing in favour of attacking Iraq and critcising the Bush Sr Administration for ignoring Iraq's links with terrorism.
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Even more surprising is that anyone would bother recording anything Gore said.
Come now Dizzy. This is a poor post. NOWHERE did he say he favoured the invasion of Iraq in the way you imply he somehow supported Bush Jr.'s actions back in 1992. Remember that Clinton/Gore were happy to "attack Iraq" in limited circumstances to safeguard the no fly zones, the Kurds, the Shia and there own service personnel in theatre. But to "attack Iraq" clearly has no correlation with the invasion of Iraq that Bush Jr. conducted.
He talked about Bush Sr. not "taking action" before the invasion of Kuwait when he had ample evidence of chemical weapons production and use as well strong evidence for biological and nuclear programs. The invasion of Kuwait was created in part by American and UK policies to arm Saddam to fight Iran because of the mess we also created in Iran. Iraq's state sponsored 'terrorism' which was mostly confined to Palestine groups which is bad enough and also well documented unlike Iraq and Al-Qaeda as Bush Jr. claimed. Also remember that an Iraqi airways flight was hijacked by Islamic Jihad (Iranian backed) in 86 because Iraq was a target for most Islamic terrorist groups of the time (Saddam famously being secular before converting for political reasons).
There is simply no comparison of this video to the hypocritical views expressed by Cheney back then compared to his time as VP. If anything it shows that Gore is consistent over time.
I can't believe that I just listened to 9 minutes of Al Gore. I blame you for this, Dizzy. I should get a medal or something.
Cheney was right back then. It is a pity that he apparently became an ideological nutjob.
Most of Gore's speech there is about inconsistent US policy towards Saddam's Iraq. I am not a Gore fan (I am much more a George HW Bush fan, actually), but it's not a bad exposition, I would say, in many respects.
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