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To: LindyBill who wrote (15777)	11/10/2003 5:46:40 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793757

Gore, the far left sponsors, and the Patriot Act... Senator McConnell KY-R, asked this morning exactly what person/people have been harmed by the Patriot Act...He couldn't think of any. Are there? Both parties voted for this Act. Now why is Gore making "another policy statement"......Policy Statement???? For what? And it would be interesting if folks looked up the groups that sponsored him yesterday............MoveOn.org and the American Constitution Society...This article from Au 03, with the same squeels, now new sponsors... WP Editorial - Mr. Gore's Blurred View Sunday, August 10, 2003; Page B06 "If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people." -- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998 THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL race seems to be carrying the Democratic Party in a dangerous direction on the issues of the Iraq war and national security -- dangerous for the nation and risky for the party too. Some of the candidates are more off course than others. If they listen to former vice president Al Gore, who took it upon himself last week to suggest a theme of attack for the nine candidates, they will all go off the cliff. Mr. Gore, who not so long ago was describing Iraq as a "virulent threat in a class by itself," validated just about every conspiratorial theory of the antiwar left. President Bush, in distorting evidence about the Iraqi threat, was pursuing policies "designed to benefit friends and supporters." The war was waged "at least partly in order to ensure our continued access to oil." And it occurred because "false impressions" precluded the nation from conducting a serious debate before the war. This notion -- that we were all somehow bamboozled into war -- is part of Mr. Gore's larger conviction that Mr. Bush has put one over on the nation, and not just with regard to Iraq. You can see why he might want to think so. Mr. Gore believes, for example, that the Patriot Act represents "a broad and extreme invasion of our privacy rights in the name of terrorism." But then how to explain that 98 senators -- including all four Democratic senators now running for president -- voted for it? The president's economic and environmental policies represent an "ideologically narrow agenda" serving only "powerful and wealthy groups and individuals who manage to work their way into the inner circle." Rest at: washingtonpost.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (15777)	11/10/2003 5:48:52 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793757

NEWS: Gore: War Pretext for Curbing Liberties THE WASHINGTON POST And Gore yesterday .........November 10, 2003 [hooooooooohummmmmmmm] newsday.com. Washington - In his second major policy speech in three months, former vice president Al Gore took aim yesterday at what he said was the Bush administration's exploitation of the terrorist attacks of 2001 to justify an undemocratic suspension of domestic freedoms and to create a government built on "secrecy and deception."