Rachel Maddow on AAR gives link to Al Gore's Speech from her Show...

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http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html


IRAQ AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM

Al Gore
Former U.S. Vice President

Thank you very much. I certainly appreciate the warmth of your welcome and I want to thank Gloria Duffy for that generous - and I hasten to add, over-generous - introduction. Tipper and I both enjoyed listening to that. To George Dobbins, the program director, and Connie Shapiro, our moderator. Also, I want to thank Mayor Willie Brown for his help in helping to establish this on relatively short notice. I appreciate his friendship.

Thanks for your kind words on my service as vice president. I felt it was a tremendous honor. I enjoyed the job. I have to tell you that I did some research about the vice presidency and found that quite a number of my predecessors did not really fully appreciate the job. Some of them resigned. Just to give one example before I get into my speech here. John C. Calhoun actually resigned the vice presidency in 1825 to become a senator from South Carolina. And as many of you know, he subsequently lost that seat to Strom Thurmond, who's still there.

I want to talk about the relationship between America's war against terrorism and America's proposed war against Iraq. Like most Americans I've been wrestling with the question of what our country needs to do to defend itself from the kind of focused, intense and evil attack that we suffered a year ago, September 11. We ought to assume that the forces responsible for that attack are even now attempting to plan another attack against us.

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