Al Gore - A Retrospective

Sincere appreciation to IraqNow, who in turn found these quotes on other websites. This, my friends, is why the Web may very well be the savior of the republic.

"They dare not admit the truth lest they look like complete fools for launching our country into a reckless, discretionary war against a nation that posed no immediate threat to us whatsoever."

-- Al Gore- June 24, 2004

"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."

--Al Gore, February 12th, 2002

...if you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons; he poison gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunctions about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world."

-- Al Gore, December 16, 1998

Notice how, as we traverse time in our digital Wayback Machine, Al Gore becomes increasingly hawkish toward Saddam Hussein. I ask, what exactly has happened since 1998 to turn Al Gore, anti-Saddam zealot who fears for the security of the world (presuming the United States is in fact, part of the World) to the foam-flecked growler who refers to citizens such as I as "digital Brown Shirts".

I have no answer. I would like to think that a man's integrity is worth more than the cheering crowds of a MoveOn.org rally. Although Al Gore was once a fairly conservative, reliably pro-Life Democrat from an equally conservative state, (a state he did not carry in thge election) he has made a 90 degree left turn, becoming the Bush hater's Bush hater. The only difference I can see is that, for good or for ill, George W. Bush quit talking about Iraq and actually did something about it.

Before the 2000 election I thought Al Gore was full of crap, but unfairly permeated with Bill Clinton's stench. I still wouldn't vote for him, not only because of his conversion to a pro-Abortion lackey of NARAL but any Democrat would be drawing from the leftist Democratic farm teams to fill jobs from the Cabinet on down.

The notion that a guy this intellectually malleable would have been, but for the grace of a few votes, President is positively frightening. Bush didn't steal the election, but if he had, the nation would owe him a big wet kiss.

Tim McNabb