Summary
As someone who did, in fact, vote for Al Gore in 2000 and has on many occasions wondered how America's policies would have differed after September 11 with a Gore administration, Jack Kelly's column really struck home with me ("Gore's grating gripes," Commentary, yesterday).
Mr. Gore's conduct as a disenfranchised politician may not be wholly reflective of how he would have behaved as president, but to go to Saudi Arabia and proclaim, "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States," while implying that that is what the Bush administration has done shows a certain disconnect from reality. It's even a disconnect from the liberal Democrat party line, which builds on the claim that the Bush family is too close to the Saudi ruling family for America's liking. One has to wonder what Mr. Gore was thinking, and if he was thinking at all, or simply pandering to his audience.See the full content of this document
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Gore's Gaffe
Most of the September 11 hijackers were Saudis, w...
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