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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (48710)	10/18/2000 7:06:01 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Gore has a better command of foreign policy than most candidates. >> To include- BILL GERTZ THE WASHINGTON TIMES Oct 17, 2000 Letter shows Gore made Russian Deal; Arms sales violation kept from Congress Vice President Al Gore, at the urging of Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, agreed to keep secret from Congress details of Russia's nuclear cooperation with Iran beginning in late 1995. In a classified ``Dear Al'' letter obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Chernomyrdin told Mr. Gore about Moscow's confidential nuclear deal with Iran and stated that it was ``not to be conveyed to third parties, including the U.S. Congress.'' But sources on Capitol Hill said Mr. Gore withheld the information from key senators who normally would be told of such high-level security matters. The Gore-Chernomyrdin deal, disclosed in a letter labeled ``secret,'' appears to violate a provision of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Act, which requires the Clinton administration to keep congressional oversight committees fully informed of all issues related to nuclear weapons proliferation. The Chernomyrdin letter on nuclear cooperation with Iran follows a report in the New York Times last week showing that Mr. Gore reached a secret deal with Russia several months earlier that appears to circumvent U.S. laws requiring the imposition of sanctions on Russia for its conventional arms sales to Iran. That arrangement also was kept secret from Congress, raising concerns among some lawmakers that the administration may be hiding other secret deals.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (48710)	10/18/2000 9:03:19 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769667

Gore's record is far less impressive than his pumped-up resume. Quite telling is Gore's TOTAL flub of the Yugoslavia/ Milosavic debate question, pooh-poohing Bush's proposal for Russian involvement, but which turned out to be exactly what Gore's boss Clinton was doing, and which worked. The example shows that Gore really isn't in the loop in major foreign policy decisions, not even knowing what his president was doing on the number one issue of the day. What if Clinton had become incapacitated and Gore had needed to step in? Gore obviously wouldn't have had a clue as to what was going on, and was opposed to it, to boot. The incident also showed another example of Gore's hubris getting in the way of good decision-making. I would bank on the foreign policy experience of Bush's aides over Gore's questionable record.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (48710)	10/18/2000 9:07:22 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769667

I would add that with regard to foreign policy matters, it is now well documented that Al Gore sold his support for the Gulf War in return for 20 minutes of floor time on the Senate floor. He said he'd vote the other way if he didn't get it. Alan Simpson, a highly regarded retired senator from Wyoming, has recounted this episode in detail. I don't want my foreign policy decisions based on "Prime Time Al's" self-promotion.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (48710)	10/19/2000 2:54:21 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769667

Certainly Eisenhower was well prepared on foreign policy before he became president, having been a political general during World War II, given Germany to the Soviets to occupy, and having served as NATO commander. Nixon also had foreign policy experience, having staged the kitchen debate and been spit on in South America. Hoover had enormous foreign policy experience. Wilson, I believe, was hardly an international scholar and I don't believe he had even been abroad before he became President.