If Al Gore would have won the year 2000 elections, do you think that the events of 9/11 would have happened?

NO

I don't see why not. Am I missing something? The attack was on the USA. Not on a particular president. And the FBI would have been the same.

What might have been different would have been the reaction. Gore would have maintined a sustained effort in Afghanistan, and Bin Laden probably would have been captured or killed. Also, the whole infrastructure of the movement would have been much more seriously damaged. And the USA would have come out with friends and not enemies in the Middle East.

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I don't think the whole question has so much to do here with right and left wing politics, but rather the quality of the leader. The people of the USA did not choose as well this time as they have in the past.

Probably not...who can say. There is much evidence pointing to the fact that the current administration was somwhat complicit in the attacks. Many many questiong remain unanswered and every attempt at investigation has been hampered. What are they hiding?

So much ignorance in the world. If you're going to voice an opinion, at least educate yourself about the subject before speaking.

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Yes, it is more likely than not that 9-11 would have happened. And yes we would have gone to war against Al-Qaeda. There is no president Democrat or Republican who wouldn't go after the people responsible for a tragedy of that magnitude (and ANYONE who says otherwise is incredibly ignorant and needs to study American history and the political after effects of full scale attacks on America). However, all subsequent events would not have happened. We would not have gone after Saddam after dubiously connecting him with Al-Qaeda. We would not have gone to war with a country that posed no immediate threat. We would not have increased the number of terrorist recruits exponentially by the unnecessary war in Iraq. We would not have isolated ourselves from the rest of the world, who now sees our elected leader as a cowboy. We would not have thrown a country into civil war. We would not have caused the potential increased destabilization of an entire region (that has historically already had enough problems without our meddling). We would not have lost the lives of nearly 3000 American servicemen and women in an unnecessary war.

I hope this answers your hypothetical question.

Absolutely. Then the country would have been so screwed we'd still be experiencing attacks.

And to all you liberals who say no: The attack on the trade center was only 9 months after the president took office. The plans were in place long before that. The only thing that would have mattered is how the president would respond. Would you seriously trust a man who thinks he invented the internet to end terrorism?

Probably a series of 911 attacks by now.

Absolutely. The terrorists hate what we have. THey hate all Americans. It had nothing to do with our President. THey wanted to cripple us. I know we're in bad shape, but it would be much worse if Gore were Prez.

Whether they would have happened or not, the outcome would have been different. If he had, the world wouldn't be on the slippery slope to hell right now.

Perhaps. And perhaps he would have taken the intel recommendations and put some focused attention on bin Laden ("bin Laden determined to attack within the United States). But we'll never know.

Add: can we please dispense with the "I invented the internet" quote? He never said that. He said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives..."

Yes, they would have happened anyway. Al Gore has no balls and would not have not done anything about it and we would have had additional attacks by now.