Originally posted by: Tabb
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: friedpie
1) Are you satisfied now with the president's actions against the terrorist? Don't answer with "He should have stopped it, man." That's over with, nothing can be done to change that. I want to know if you are thankful that he responded to 9-11 with force. Better late than never if you know what I mean.
2) Do you think Al Gore could have prevented 9-11? I think some people believe Bush didn't do enough to stop 9-11. I wonder if people honestly think Al Gore could have done a better job, and why you think so.
3) Do you think Al Gore would have gone after the terrorist after 9-11?
No
Irrelevant
Irrelevant
Why?
Bush wasted the empathy the world felt for the USA after 9/11. I am not happy with Bush's response to terrorism since his invasion of Iraq took the focus OFF of terrorism (since Iraq had NO ties with terrorists) and we are now wasting our resources, both manpower and dollars, to rebuild a nation we didn't need to invade in the first place. Bush went into Afghanistan and did NOT get JOB ONE DONE. Osama bin Laden is still free, not "dead or alive." Bush was as usual all talk.
Now Bush is reneging on the promise to rebuild Afghanistan partly because he rushed into Iraq and can barely afford to maintain THAT unnecessary operation. Now Afghanistan is becoming what it was before the USA attacked. A producer of heroin and terrorism.
Bush's war on terror isn't all talk and NO action. Bush's war on terror is all talk and WRONG action. The Bush administration used the attacks of 9/11 to advance their own radical political agenda. Our rights are under attack. Our economy is in ruins. Our credibility around the world has been destroyed. We are mired in an occupation that will take years to finish at the cost of hundreds or possibly thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Any conjecture on what might have happened if Gore won is just that, conjecture.
We don't need to waste time talking about "what if" when we know "what is." Don't obfuscate the issue with conjecture about what if Gore was president.
Bush is in the White House. His administration screwed this up all by themselves. Gore wasn't involved in the ridiculous, irresponsible, unnecessary invasion of Iraq. That was all Bush. Gore didn't turn our huge economic surplus into a huge deficit. That was all Bush. Gore didn't push through two massive irresponsible tax cuts which favored the wealthiest Americans at the price of our economic security and jobs. That was all Bush.
Nine million Americans are out of work right now all due to the Bush administration's mis-handling of our economy.
Gore didn't ignore the intel warnings before 9/11 that was all Bush.
Gore didn't hand no bid contracts to the company his vice president headed to rebuild a nation he invaded unnecessarily. That was all Bush.
The Bush administration has been a disaster for America.
Stop trying to change the focus by bringing up "what if" about an election that was stolen by the people who now, after stealing selection 2000 have ruined our nation.