Nailing Gore
The Washington Post in its lead editorial takes on Al Gore for his speech last week.
"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 compunction about killing lots and lots of people."
-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998
"THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL race seems to be carrying the Democratic Party in a dangerous direction on the issues of the Iraq war and national security -- dangerous for the nation and risky for the party too. Some of the candidates are more off course than others. If they listen to former vice president Al Gore, who took it upon himself last week to suggest a theme of attack for the nine candidates, they will all go off the cliff."
"...This notion -- that we were all somehow bamboozled into war -- is part of Mr. Gore's larger conviction that Mr. Bush has put one over on the nation, and not just with regard to Iraq.
"You can see why he might want to think so. Mr. Gore believes, for example, that the Patriot Act represents 'a broad and extreme invasion of our privacy rights in the name of terrorism.' But then how to explain that 98 senators -- including all four Democratic senators now running for president -- voted for it?"
The Washington Post in its lead editorial takes on Al Gore for his speech last week.
"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 compunction about killing lots and lots of people."
-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998
"THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL race seems to be carrying the Democratic Party in a dangerous direction on the issues of the Iraq war and national security -- dangerous for the nation and risky for the party too. Some of the candidates are more off course than others. If they listen to former vice president Al Gore, who took it upon himself last week to suggest a theme of attack for the nine candidates, they will all go off the cliff."
"...This notion -- that we were all somehow bamboozled into war -- is part of Mr. Gore's larger conviction that Mr. Bush has put one over on the nation, and not just with regard to Iraq.
"You can see why he might want to think so. Mr. Gore believes, for example, that the Patriot Act represents 'a broad and extreme invasion of our privacy rights in the name of terrorism.' But then how to explain that 98 senators -- including all four Democratic senators now running for president -- voted for it?"
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