Gore Says Bush Lied About Iraq to Push for War

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2720-2004Jun24.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Thursday accused President Bush of telling "an artful and important lie" soon after the Sept. 11 attacks to set the stage for war on Iraq.

"Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public's mind," Gore said in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center.

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He said Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney continue to argue for a connection between bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the deposed Iraqi regime because it supports their push for war in Iraq and justifies "some of the new power they've picked up from the Congress and the courts" since the 2001 hijack attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

"As a result, President Bush is now intentionally misleading the American people," Gore said. "Indeed, Bush's consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie -- visibly circumnavigating the truth over and over again as if he had practiced how to avoid encountering the truth."

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[Francine Frensky]

1. This should be Kerry's number one talking point! I see ads here:

the dems should be preparing ads of "that was then/this is now" of bush and cheney talking about Iraq. Their lies vs. the reality.

Get the truth out there!!!!

[underpants]

2. I heard the audio on Hannity about 20 minutes ago

Calm cool and very on point. I suspect that the press will not let this see much daylight as their laziness and culpability in not question the war is becoming more and more clear.

[AlGore-08.com]

4. He called on the press to ignore "digital brownshirts" & report the truth

The RNC blast fax about Gore's speech hit the wires before the coverage did...

[Cocoa]

3. "digital brown shirts"

Gore also accused the Bush administration of working closely "with a network of 'rapid response' digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops."'



And speak of the devil, the RNC has already responded:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=155-06242004

"Al Gore's history of denial of the threat of terrorism is no less dangerous today in his role as John Kerry's surrogate than it was in the 1990s in his role as Vice President, a time when Osama Bin Laden was declaring war on the United States five different times," said RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke.

[AlGore-08.com]

5. Jinx!

;)

[emulatorloo]

8. funny, Al Gore actually listened to Richard Clarke, and GWB couldn't be

bothered to talk w him. . .

[Doosh]

11. fuhrer drudge has already picked up on it

It should trickle down to Information Minister Hannity and Field Marshall Scarborough later in the day.

[Beetwasher]

6. WooHoo!!!

Go Al!! Get the "L" word out there!!!

[hedda_foil]

7. Wow! He not only used the L word, the WaPo headlined the word!!!

This is utterly huge.

[AlGore-08.com]

9. We've got the full transcript posted at AGDems now

Either go to the front page:
http://www.algoredemocrats.com

Or got the transcript alone:
http://www.algoredemocrats.com/news/gnn/EpllEpAluZQjrdFGci.shtml

[sampsonblk]

10. Great!

We all know he LIED. Its about time our leaders had the courage to SAY it.

[Moderator]

12. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x643610