What the hell did Al Gore or his boss do to stop terror? Clinton's
answer was to shoot off cruse missles in the middle of the night. Most
the planning and preperation for 911 occured while Gore was in office.

If ya can't tax the internet, then tax the weather.

Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

From The New York Times, 5/22/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/books/22kaku.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Al Gore Speaks of a Nation in Danger

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI


In "The Assault on Reason? Al Gore excoriates George W. Bush,
asserting that the president is "out of touch with reality,? that his
administration is so incompetent that it "can't manage its own way out
of a horse show,? that it ignored "clear warnings? about the terrorist
threat before 9/11 and that it has made Americans less safe by
"stirring up a hornets' nest in Iraq,? while using "the language and
politics of fear? to try to "drive the public agenda without regard to
the evidence, the facts or the public interest.?

The administration's pursuit of unilateralism abroad, Mr. Gore says,
has isolated the United States in an ever more dangerous world, even
as its efforts to expand executive power at home and "relegate the
Congress and the courts to the sidelines? have undermined the
constitutional system of checks and balances.

The former vice president contends that the fiasco in Iraq stems from
President Bush's use of "a counterfeit combination of misdirected
vengeance and misguided dogma to dominate the national discussion,
bypass reason, silence dissent and intimidate those who questioned his
logic both inside and outside the administration.?

He argues that the gruesome acts of torture committed at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq "were a direct consequence of the culture of impunity ~
encouraged, authorized and instituted? by President Bush and former
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

_________________________________________________

And that's just for starters.

Harry

What the hell did Al Gore or his boss do to stop terror? Clinton's
answer was to shoot off cruse missles in the middle of the night. Most
the planning and preperation for 911 occured while Gore was in office.

If ya can't tax the internet, then tax the weather.

Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

From The New York Times, 5/22/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/books/22kaku.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Al Gore Speaks of a Nation in Danger

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI


In "The Assault on Reason‰ Al Gore excoriates George W. Bush,
asserting that the president is "out of touch with reality,‰ that his
administration is so incompetent that it "can't manage its own way out
of a horse show,‰ that it ignored "clear warnings‰ about the terrorist
threat before 9/11 and that it has made Americans less safe by
"stirring up a hornets' nest in Iraq,‰ while using "the language and
politics of fear‰ to try to "drive the public agenda without regard to
the evidence, the facts or the public interest.‰

The administration's pursuit of unilateralism abroad, Mr. Gore says,
has isolated the United States in an ever more dangerous world, even
as its efforts to expand executive power at home and "relegate the
Congress and the courts to the sidelines‰ have undermined the
constitutional system of checks and balances.

The former vice president contends that the fiasco in Iraq stems from
President Bush's use of "a counterfeit combination of misdirected
vengeance and misguided dogma to dominate the national discussion,
bypass reason, silence dissent and intimidate those who questioned his
logic both inside and outside the administration.‰

He argues that the gruesome acts of torture committed at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq "were a direct consequence of the culture of impunity Ëś
encouraged, authorized and instituted‰ by President Bush and former
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

_________________________________________________

And that's just for starters.

Harry