It's amazing Bush won.

[John Dibble]

Just think for a moment how close we were to having Al Gore as president on 9/11.

Scary thought

Not really. If you really think about it, he would have done virtually the same things as far as Afghanistan and Al Queda goes, really anyone in charge would have, it would have been impossible for them not to - Iraq would be a different matter.

It's not really amazing that he lost though - he wasn't exactly a great candidate, and because he tried to distance himself from Clinton he kind of lost the whole peace/prosperity/incumbency thing. Really I think either party could have done better.

[John Dibble]

That's just not true.

Immediately after the attack, people on the news were already debating whether Bush was "being rational" about all of this..."does it really make sense to invade another country?"..."not even the mighty Soviet Empire could beat the Afghans!"

Gore would not have invaded.

Are you so sure? You're speculating. I'm speculating too, to be objective about it, but I think the political pressure would have made him have to invade(or the Republican Congress would have declared war anyways and Gore would have had to).