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Former: Vice President of the US, Presidential Candidate, Representative & Senator from Tennesse
Al Gore - Father of the Internet?
When CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Gore how he was different than other Democratic challengers, Gore replied:
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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Huh? Preliminary discussions of how the ARPANET [the forerunner to the Internet] would be designed began in 1967, and a request for proposals went out the following year. In 1969, the Defense Department commissioned the ARPANET. Gore was 21 years old at the time. It would be eight more years before Gore would be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a freshman Democrat.
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http://www.lp.org/lp...05-talking.html
added 06/06/03
Weapon of Mass Distraction
It appears Saddam Hussein has unleashed a new weapon of mass distraction on America, a Gore-like android so realistic it is every bit as lifeless as the real thing.
June 28, 2000 - Gore: 'Saddam must go'
That's the headline of an article on the BBC's Web site, which reports that the former vice president "has told Iraqi opposition politicians that the United States remains committed to the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein."
Source:
http://www.opinionjo...t/?id=110002334
http://news.bbc.co.u...icas/809168.stm
added 06/06/03
Feb. 12, 2002 - Speech to the Council on Foreign Relations:
Al Gore said last night that the time had come for a "final reckoning" with Iraq, describing the country as a "virulent threat in a class by itself" and suggesting that the United States should consider ways to oust President Saddam Hussein.
Source:
http://www.opinionjo...t/?id=110002334
http://www.commondre...s02/0213-01.htm
added 06/06/03
So who's this impostor, claiming to be Gore, who delivered this speech (which the Associated Press called "a sweeping indictment of President Bush's threatened attack on Iraq") at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on September 24, 2002?
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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, goodwill 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.
Source:
http://www.opinionjo...t/?id=110002334
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-0...gore-text_x.htm
added 06/06/03
Denounces Bush Administration Over Civil Liberties
Al Gore accused President Bush of failing to make the country safer after the Sept. 11 attacks and using the war against terrorism as a pretext to consolidate power.
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"They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, 'big brother'-style government -- toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in his book '1984' -- than anyone ever thought would be possible in the United States of America."
Source:
http://www.foxnews.c...,102611,00.html
added 11/10/03
Gore, who lost the disputed 2000 presidential election to Bush, said terrorism-fighting tools granted after Sept. 11 amount to a partisan power grab that have led to the erosion of the civil liberties of all Americans.
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Gore said, the administration has "recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger."
Source: http://www.foxnews.c...,102611,00.html
added 11/10/03
Gore Slams Bush Administration on Environment
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Former Vice President Al Gore blasted President Bush as a "moral coward," saying he abandoned the public interest to accommodate his financial contributors.
Gore, in a speech before a full house at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, said it sometimes appeared that "the Bush-Cheney administration is wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining industries."
It was the latest in a series of harsh critiques from Gore on the Bush administration. The ex-Democratic presidential candidate, who lost the 2000 election to Bush, had previously accused the administration of cracking down on civil liberties since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and mishandling post-war Iraq.
Gore, speaking on a bitterly cold day, addressed the issues of global warming and the administration's environmental policies.
"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward," said Gore.
Gore, in a speech before a full house at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, said it sometimes appeared that "the Bush-Cheney administration is wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining industries."
It was the latest in a series of harsh critiques from Gore on the Bush administration. The ex-Democratic presidential candidate, who lost the 2000 election to Bush, had previously accused the administration of cracking down on civil liberties since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and mishandling post-war Iraq.
Gore, speaking on a bitterly cold day, addressed the issues of global warming and the administration's environmental policies.
"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward," said Gore.
Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-...p-regional-wire
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