Late to the party on this one but still just have to highlight it. Here is Al Gore blasting…I mean giving George H.W. Bush both barrels…for not doing enough against Saddam.
“it was an Iraq-based group that masterminded the assassination attempt against Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom”
“the terrorists who masterminded the attack on the Achille-Lauro and the savage murder of American Leon Klinghoffer, fled with Iraqi assistance“
“the team of terrorists who set out to blow up the Rome airport came directly from Baghdad with suitcase bombs”
“[Saddam Hussein] was not only promoting terrorism, but was also pursuing a nuclear weapons program“
“Iraqi aircraft intentionally attacked the USS Stark in May of 1987 killing 37 sailors”
“Bush deserves heavy blame for intentionally concealing from the American people the clear nature of Saddam Hussein and his regime and for convincing himself that friendly relations with such a monster would be possible, and for persisting in this effort far, far beyond the point of folly”
“Saddam used poison gas on the Kurdish town of Halabja, brutally murdering some 5,000 innocent men, women, and children”
And this lovely quote:
Saddam had every reason to assume that Bush would look the other way no matter what he did. He had already launched poison gas attacks repeatedly, and Bush looked the other way. He had already conducted extensive terrorism activities, and Bush had looked the other way. He was already deeply involved in the effort to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and Bush knew it, but he looked the other way. Well, in my view, the Bush administration was acting in a manner directly opposite to what you would expect with all of the evidence that it had available to it at the time. Saddam Hussein’s nature and intentions were perfectly visible.
So let me get this straight. The first Bush was incompetent because instead of taking action against a man who had KNOWN ties to terrorists, had wmd’s, and had used those wmd’s he instead chose to look the other way. Clinton comes in and does the same thing.
Then Bush Jr. arrives and decided enough is enough and takes the very action Gore is calling for here….but he is a villian. He is evil personified.
He "betrayed this country" as Gore likes to say.
Oh the hypocrisy.
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Gotta just love the incredible hubris of this man!