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[–] NegativeInf 66 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I always wonder how Gore might have acted in response to 9/11.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Probably a similar initial response, but no Iraq War two years later. Which would make a... massive (and positive, in case that wasn't clear) change in the direction and concerns of American foreign policy.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He wouldn't have suspended civil rights, permitted torture and made a mockery of the rule of law.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We think that yes. I'm a gore fan.

But remember there were 100s of people driving towards those topics. Career defense and security types making their damnedest case that they needed those tools to avoid 9/11 2.0.

I hope gore, and the staff he surrounded himself with would have had the vision to avoid all that, despite the pressure.

[–] randon31415 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] anarchy79 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Never forget. If you want an even crazier mindfuck, watch the original "Utopia", the original 2013 British version. For real.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Based on after-the-fact reports, it may never have happened.

Maybe that's just exposure to all the conspiracy theories, though, I dunno if he would have acted any differently than Bush did to the intelligence reports.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I meant before 9/11, sorry for not making that clear :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

They had intelligence that terrorists from Al-Queda were training and planning for an attack, hijacking commercial planes.

Bush et al did next to nothing with that intel, at best.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's questionable if it'd have even happened had gore been at the desk, y'know, because he'd have probably actually read the imminent attack report about the plot before it happened.

[–] anarchy79 2 points 11 months ago

True dat. He wasn't part of the cabal. That's also why he wasn't elected, in spite of winning. Just like Hillary.