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[–] 68 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 98 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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