Originally posted by mark e smith:
Do you ever stop and wonder if things would be any different right now if someone else was the president?
Things wouldn't be much different:
After the biggest and longest economic boom in history, the roof was coming off no matter who was in office.
Had 9/11 happened under a Gore presidency, he would have been under
more pressure to take drastic measures than Bush was, as he had been in the administration for 8 years before that.
The war in Iraq is a toss-up:
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
However, one would assume Gore would have at least attempted to build a better coalition. Then again, I don't think he complained about going into Kosovo without UN approval.
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Don't forget that immediately following the 2000 election, the activist left vowed to protest every action taken by Bush. So, many people see all the bitching as sour grapes that would have happened no matter what policies Bush enacted.
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GGW is simply my initials.