Al Gore article on ABC: Environmental Al is Back (from June 4th)

Did everyone see this article. If not, here's a link:

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Politics/story?id=2037158&page=1

I imagine that there were threads about it at the time because of the comments right at the beginning from Gore re: running again for President. But somone on DailyKos commented on something from the article that appears on page three re: the Iraq War.

I thought it was interesting that, although he's spoken out against that war, that he's not a "fixed deadline" person.

From page 3:
"Gore, however, disagreed with Sen. John Kerry's, D-Mass., call to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year.

"I would pursue the twin objectives of trying to withdraw our forces as quickly as we possibly can, while at the same time minimizing the risk that we'll make the mess over there even worse and raise even higher the danger of civil war," Gore said.

Dismissing calls for any deadline, Gore added, "It's possible that setting a deadline could set in motion forces that would make it even worse. I think that we should analyze that very carefully. My guess is that a deadline is probably not the right approach; but again, you have to weigh that question in the context of how the political decisions are made between the Congress and the executive branch. Sometimes the Congress itself has blunt instruments and limited options to play a role in matters like this."