Al Gore has written a book, in his latest creation, the former Vice President laments the decline of reason in America’s discourse. In a excerpt published by Time, Gore references a comment by West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, preceding the Iraq War.

Can any book in which the tired fossil of a racist, known as Robert Byrd, is cited have any credibility? While Gore contends that American society, its system of laws and the media have failed us, in many ways Gore is correct, there is no discourse in America, only demagoguery, but then again should we be surprised?

The average American simply isn’t interested or capable of engaging in a civil discourse on almost any substantive issue, with the possible exception of American Idol, the Super Bowl or whether Paris Hilton will serve jail time. Central to Gore critique is the lead up to the Iraq War, herein lies inherent hypocrisy that lies deep in the hearts of most politicians. While the merits of the Iraq War may very well be subject to debate, Gore and company is in no position to spearhead that debate.

The same war Gore and fellow leftist now lampoon was the same war, these politicos advocated while in power. Every major Democratic politician from Clinton on down called for harsh action against Saddam Hussein. These leftists argued Iraq was amassing WMDs and was a threat to peace in general and the US specifically. These leftists continued to make such claims in the early days of the Bush presidency, so what happened, did the left have a massive change of heart or experience some type of awakening…certainly not. They are politicians, and politicians like most feral animals prey on weakness. Sensing that the war was going bad, and knowing full well that the public would not remember and the press would not remind anyone of their hypocrisy, the left began to lambaste Bush’s policy of regime change, a policy introduced by then President Clinton.

In reality if the roles were reversed, the GOP would be doing the exact same thing, such is the nature of politics. The left (and for that matter Al Gore) couldn’t care less about Iraq, or the lack of discourse, indeed the lack of discourse plays to their advantage, as a learned society that embraces civil discourse, would not be susceptible to the demagoguery so cleverly championed by the modern left.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622015,00.html