Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit : Marie Cocco

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Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit


Marie Cocco

August 12, 2003

A lone Democrat has identified the essential problem of the Bush administration and is willing to say what it is: Our government sets policy and maintains almost unquestioned power through calculated and comprehensive deceit.

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It is very fortunate, and very unfortunate, that Gore says he won't run for president in 2004. Fortunate, because we will be spared Gore-bashing as a substitute for serious coverage. Unfortunate, because non-candidate Gore doesn't get much ink. Yet the message of Gore's speech at New York University on Thursday deserves attention.

The wrong, Gore said, isn't just that President George W. Bush led the nation into a pre-emptive war in Iraq without international support and did so with a public-relations campaign heavy on hyped-up claims that exceeded and at times contradicted intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weaponry. No, the trouble isn't just Iraq.

I just e-mailed Ms. Cocco to thank her for writing this and to keep it up. Our only hope is to expose this admin's duplicity.

as the Democratic attack dog. If he is successful at this it would completely nullify the snooze-inducing stodginess that people perceived as his primary weakness that probably cost him the election. This is a good plan if he ever wants to run for office again, but it will take a lot of work and it won't happen soon enough for the upcoming election.

Arnie may have had his 15 minutes of political fame, but Gore will win the respect of honest Americans again.

See the other good review of the speech on History News.
<http://hnn.us/articles/1627.html>

As a History major, I enjoyed that review.

Provided we oust Bush in 2004, History will emancipate Al Gore's reputation from the sewer of contemporary political dirty tricks.