Weapons of Mass Discussion

Thursday, May 27, 2004

GORE

Raising his voice to a yell in a speech at New York University, Gore said: "How dare they subject us to such dishonor and disgrace! How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison!"

The Democratic former vice president said the situation in Iraq is spinning out of control.

"I am calling today for Republicans as well as Democrats to join me in asking for the immediate resignations of those immediately below George Bush and Dick Cheney, who are most responsible for creating the catastrophe we are facing in Iraq," Gore said, drawing strong applause from the partisan crowd.

"Donald Rumsfeld ought to resign immediately!" Gore bellowed. "Our nation is at risk every single day Rumsfeld remains as secretary of defense. We need someone with good judgment and common sense."

Rice "ought to resign immediately. She has badly mishandled the coordination of national security policy. This is a disaster for our country," he said.

"It came from twisted values and atrocious policies at the highest levels of our government," he said.

The former presidential candidate was gentler on Tenet, a Clinton administration appointee, describing him as a friend and "honorable man" who should still leave his position for intelligence failures.

Matt's Chat

If this isn't aiding the enemy, I don't know what is... I'm all for freedom of speech, but like most of our freedoms, speech has limits too. This goes too far. It is slander and isn't helping the Democratic cause at all. Not that I care...

Speaking of dishonor and disgrace...the Clinton/Gore administration made a mockery of the presidency and diminished our role in the world. As the RNC Spokesman, Jim Dyke, said Al Gore doesn't understand the nature of terrorism. We have to take this fight to them otherwise we'll be fingting in Boston instead of Baghdad; Fairfield, OH instead of Fallujah. Uber-liberals like Al Gore don't understand the strategy of taking the fight to the enemy and they never will. That is why they are dangerous to our national security.

Al Gore should know better than to blame the administration for the acts of a very few soldiers. Abu Gharib was a black eye for us; but unlike Saddam's torturers, these guys will be punished instead of promoted and if you don't think that has value, you just don't get it.

Speaking of resignations, when is John Kerry going to resign from the Senate? He has been collecting a paycheck while not doing his job. As of May 23, Kerry has only worked three days in the Senate casting a grand total of 14 out of 103 votes. If that isn't dereliction of duty... Back in '96, Bob Dole resigned from the Senate so that he could focus on his losing bid to the White House against President Clinton. It was the right thing to do and it showed confidence (however misplaced) that Dole wanted to win. Why won't Kerry do the same? Because he wants to be able to punt and keep some power when he loses.