Good August topic: Steve Kornacki argues that Al Gore would have gone to war with Iraq had he defeated George W. Bush in the 2000 election. I think that?s absolutely wrong.
Kornacki makes several good points: that Gore?s earlier history in the Senate was hawkish; that he would have at least some Iraq hawks close to him, including his VP, Joe Lieberman; and that Saddam Hussein was highly unpopular in the U.S. What I?d add to that is that the one thing that can be said for invasion, even now, is that the status quo in Iraq was in fact far from ideal for the U.S.
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