THE TWO FACES OF AL GORE: A lack of public virtue combined with desperate ambition results in this:
I want to state this clearly: President Bush should not be blamed for Saddam Hussein's survival to this point. There was throughout the war a clear consensus the United States should not include the conquest of Iraq among its objectives. On the contrary, it was universally accepted that our objective was to push Iraq out of Kuwait, and it was further understood that when this was accomplished, combat should stop. -- Senator Al Gore, in
a speech to U.S. Senate, April 18, 1991
I felt betrayed by the first Bush administration's hasty departure from the battlefield. -- Unemployed Al Gore,
remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, September 23, 2002
