[lbo-talk] Would Gore have invaded Iraq?

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Sun Apr 11 08:00:15 PDT 2004


On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 04:21 PM, Stephen E Philion wrote:


> Gore, to successfully invade Iraq would have had to go
> the same route Bush went--and it's quite possible he would have if the
> pressure to do so in the aftermath of a 911 was great enough.

What pressure? Were the people around Gore as hot to trot in Iraq as Bush's were? Or would the right-wing hot-to-trot people have been able to pressure Gore?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ "In an ideal world, people would be preoccupied with reading and writing poetry and having love affairs, as people were in the Japanese court in the 11th century, as described in 'The Tale of Genji.' If people were involved in that type of life, maybe there would be no war." -- Wallace Shawn



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