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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 12:53 AM
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Does Anyone Know a Place on The Internet to Watch Gore's 2002 Speech Ripping the IWR?
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 12:54 AM by DrFunkenstein
I can't find it on YouTube and really wanted to show it to my wife. It has stayed with me for many years now. I can't believe that it is more than 5 years ago already. Damn this war is long.


Here some excerpts from the speech, but it is worth revisiting:

By shifting from his early focus after September 11th on war against terrorism to war against Iraq, the President has manifestly disposed of the sympathy, good will and solidarity compiled by America and transformed it into a sense of deep misgiving and even hostility.

In just one year, the President has somehow squandered the international outpouring of sympathy, goodwill and solidarity that followed the attacks of September 11th and converted it into anger and apprehension aimed much more at the United States than at the terrorist network – much as we manage to squander in one year’s time the largest budget surpluses in history and convert them into massive fiscal deficits. He has compounded this by asserting a new doctrine – of preemption.

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(I)f Iraq came to resemble Afghanistan – with no central authority but instead local and regional warlords with porous borders and infiltrating members of Al Qaeda than these widely dispersed supplies of weapons of mass destruction might well come into the hands of terrorist groups.

If we end the war in Iraq, the way we ended the war in Afghanistan, we could easily be worse off than we are today.

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I believe, therefore, that the resolution that the President has asked Congress to pass is much too broad in the authorities it grants, and needs to be narrowed.

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Anticipating that the President will still move toward unilateral action, the Congress should establish now what the administration’s thinking is regarding the aftermath of a US attack for the purpose of regime change.

Specifically, Congress should establish why the president believes that unilateral action will not severely damage the fight against terrorist networks, and that preparations are in place to deal with the effects of chemical and biological attacks against our allies, our forces in the field, and even the home-front.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore092302sp.html

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 12:58 AM
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1. Here's one with kudos to MoveOn that I love:
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uberblonde Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 05:41 AM
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2. Here's a highlights video.
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 09:08 AM
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