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Politics is entertainment.
Despite all the bickering and posturing everything that is going on now would still be going on – the economy, the war in Iraq, you name it, it would still be going on pretty much the same. I get a lot of argument about this view.
“Al Gore wouldn’t have invaded Iraq!”
Hooey.
As we’ve all seen lately in the who-knew-what-about- WMDs blamefest, there is no denying that the policy of the Clinton-Gore Administration was regime change in Iraq because of the threat of WMDs. Anyone who has been paying attention longer than last Wednesday knows that. Gore brought the subject up many times during the 2000 campaign. Ignore anything he has said since then. A hypothetical President Gore would have taken us into Iraq probably quicker than President Bush. The only difference would be that Democrats would have embraced the invasion as a humanitarian mission (see Kosovo), and the Republicans would have been against it. That’s the way the game is played. It really is hilarious to watch.
I live in a small town on an island just off the east coast. It has been undergoing a furious explosion of development during the past decade or so. Earlier this month we had a local election that was a battle between two factions. On the one hand you had evil developers. On the other hand were different evil developers. One side portrayed itself as the future of the fun recreational lifestyle. The other was sincere in preserving our historical past (which never existed).
What it was really about was who would get to control where the sewer lines would go next.
It was even more fun to watch than the hysteria over the war.
