Al Gore was at Cannes showing his new film, An Inconvenient Truth, when he unleashed a stinging and politically engaging attach upon the Bush Administration providing a Solid Counter View of our options just after 9/11. No, War was not the only Choice, especially in Iraq... and beggin every heart in America to consider the What If...
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"I also believe that after 9/11 if, in addition to rallying the country and wisely invading Afghanistan to pursue Osama bin Laden, that if the president of the United States had said 'Let's become independent of oil and coal', that people would have responded to that."
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This is an arguement into choppy water, it drags 9/11 and Bush's response, basically the time he was at 80%, through the perverbial mud. One way or another, the US had to win the war on terror.
Option A: Invade Afganistan, Invade Iraq, Invade Syria/Iran/Lebanon
Option B: Capture O.B.L., Capture the Taliban, and spend all that left over money on Health Care and Rapid Commercialization of Engergy saving technologies to end dependence on imported oil from the Middle East.
Option A = Endless War
Option B = Permanent Peace
Obviously, the choice is Clear and this is an issue only our Pal Al can speak the truth to. This will be heard, and people may do a double take, if they thought of it for more than 0.45 seconds.
Gore continued his comments with;
"But I believe that as more citizens understand the gravity of this planetary emergency they will be much more forceful in insisting that politicians respond to it," he said.
Saying he was an optimist, he added he believed that even US President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney, who have refused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty which Gore helped negotiate aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, would be forced to change their minds.
"One can only attempt to create one's own reality for so long. Reality proper has a way of insisting itself upon you."
Things would change when people began to realize that the planet stood at a crossroads and in "one direction lies potentially the end of human civilisation and point of no return beyond which the planet's climate system degrades, and in the other direction lies hope and opportunity."
"When that fundamental choice is understood clearly, you will see a shifting toward a dramatic response, and those politicians in whatever party who want to be left behind, will be left behind and will be out of office," he said.
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