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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Primo on May 27, 2004, 10:16:56 AM
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday called for the immediate resignations of several Bush administration figures, blaming them for "the catastrophe that we are facing in Iraq."
In the speech at New York University, Gore singled out Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
He also included his former Clinton administration colleague, CIA Director George Tenet, even though he called Tenet "a personal friend" and "a good and decent and honorable man." But he said the U.S. intelligence community needs new leadership as well.
In a searing indictment, Gore said President Bush's "arrogance, willfulness and bungling" in Iraq have put Americans at risk around the world, and urged voters to oust him in November.
"The unpleasant truth is that President Bush's utter incompetence has made the world a far more dangerous place and dramatically increased the threat of terrorist attacks against the United States," said Gore, Bush's Democratic rival in the 2000 election.
"He planted the seeds of war. He harvested a whirlwind," Gore added. "And now the corrupt tree of a war waged on false premises has brought us the evil fruit of Americans torturing and sexually humiliating prisoners who are helpless in their care."
Gore said soldiers who abused prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal were acting on policies "designed and insisted upon by the Bush White House," including attempts to evade the Geneva Conventions' rules on the treatment of prisoners. The scandal, he said, has dragged America's reputation "through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison."
Gore speech was sponsored by the MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, which has said it hopes to raise $50 million to beat Bush in November. Gore urged his audience to vote for Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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I can't believe you started a post in TOT :o
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Former US vice president Al Gore denounces the policies of the administration US President George W. Bush at New York University. Gore called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Hmm, I'd probably be pissed too if a man beat me for the most powerful position in the country, casting me into a deep depression that culminated in me gaining more weight than Roseanne Barr @ her worst.
I mean, look as this assclown. I hope he has a fucking stroke for getting so worked up. He's a fucking pacifist. Pacifists are pussies, and they always don't have their lunch money anymore by the time recess rolls around, so that's the explanation for the gluttony later in life. What is he so fucking worked up about? He doesn't agree with President Bush. Big fucking deal. Lots of people don't agree with president Bush, and I don't agree with Al Gore. I'm not going to have a fucking coronary over it, though.
Gore knows a lot about the Geneva Convention. Him and his vice presidency alongside Bill Clinton were responsible for the Waco Texas manslaughter, if you'll remember.... I wonder what those 70 weird fuckers down there remember about their Geneva rights. LOL Such a fucking hypocrite.
As for the abuse in the prisons, I believe I speak for the collective U.S. as a majority when I say we don't give a fuck. We don't. Torture them, I don't care. I don't even care if they torture the children... call me cold, but these motherfuckers in the middleeast aren't even human, it'd be like torturing a roach. They're cockroaches. I have that opinion of them now, after the Berg incident, and I'm sure they don't like me either, so I'm just happy my country has the biggest guns.
BTW, CHENEY IN 2008!
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