"He Betrayed this Country".. a trip down memory lane....Al Gore

[Bandit]

"He betrayed this country!" Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone. "He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place."
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During the fiery speech, which lasted more than an hour, Gore called the Bush administration's Iraq war plan "incompetent" and called George W. Bush the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon, who resigned the office of the presidency in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.
Gore also decried the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, saying, "what happened at that prison, it is now clear, is not the result of random acts of a few bad apples. It was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy."
He later passionately added, "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!"
"President Bush has exposed Americans abroad and Americans in every town and city to a greater danger of attacks by terrorists because of his arrogance, willfulness, and bungling at stirring up hornets nests that pose no threat whatsoever to us."
"Moreover, the administration has also set up the men and women of our own armed forces for payback the next time they are held as prisoners."
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Together Bill Clinton and Al Gore led the United States into the longest period of peace and sustained economic growth in American history. At the end of their term in office, Clinton and Gore could point to a number of economic accomplishments, which include:
More than 22 million new jobs
Highest homeownership in American history
Lowest unemployment in 30 years
Paid off $360 billion of the national debt (although total national debt at the end of the administration was still approximately $1.5 trillion dollars higher than at the beginning)
Lowest poverty rate in 20 years
Higher incomes at all levels
Converted the largest budget deficit in American history to the largest surplus
Lowest government spending in three decades
Lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years
More families own stock than ever before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

[arcane1]

1. that speech brought me to tears when I watched it

and I never thought of Al Gore as a very impassioned speaker until then

best

speech

ever

:yourock: