LGF reader Phil Essing discovered a story at the BBC from June 2000, in which Al Gore was singing a very different tune from yesterday’s “let’s wait and see what happens while we get revenge on Osama” speech: Gore: Saddam must go.

US Vice-President Al Gore has told Iraqi opposition politicians that the United States remains committed to the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein.

"There can be no peace for the Middle East so long as Saddam is in a position to brutalise his people and threaten his neighbours," [said Gore.]

Al Gore Meeting a delegation from the Iraqi National Congress (INC), he also reiterated the administration's view that the Iraqi leader should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Clinton administration is trying to beef up the INC after nearly 10 years of sanctions on Iraq have brought the world no closer to bringing down the Iraqi leader.

UPDATE: Another LGF reader (known only as William) found an article from the New York Times on February 13 of this year, in which Gore calls Iraq a “virulent threat in a class by itself” and says the time has come for a “final reckoning.”