an oldie but a goodie: - US safer if Gore in charge: Albright

[Sub Atomic]

i've been looking through my bookmarked sites and came across this. the archive doesn't say when the article was originally printed. i'll look a little deeper to see if i can find it.
.cheers



US safer if Gore in charge: Albright

From correspondents in Washington

THE United States would now be safer and more popular overseas had Al Gore instead of George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright said in remarks published yesterday.

Albright, who served with the ex-vice president in former president Bill Clinton's administration, said the Bush administration had needlessly antagonised many US allies by going to war with Iraq despite heated opposition in Europe and the Muslim world.

By ignoring or trivialising their concerns, Albright said Bush had squandered the well-spring of international sympathy for and goodwill toward the United States that followed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In an opinion piece published in the September/October 2003 issue of the scholarly journal Foreign Affairs, Albright also accused the Bush administration of blundering by invading Iraq before Afghanistan was truly stabilised, Osama bin Laden had been caught and his al-Qaeda network smashed.

"I remain convinced that had Al Gore been elected president, and had the attacks of September 11 still happened, the United States and NATO would have gone to war in Afghanistan together, then deployed forces all around that country and stayed to rebuild it," she wrote.


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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6950093%255E1702,00.html

[Clark2008]

1. I maintain that had Gore not been screwed out of the presidency,

that 9/11 would never have happened.