Well if Gore wasn't so busy inventing the Internet and pants (with a silent K, some of you might get that joke) he could have prevented everything
There is no way anyone was going to prevent anything from happening. If someone is so dead set on killing you they will do it, somehow, someway.
Everyone is so up in arms about why it happened and how come it wasn't prevented to worry about how to get this to some to some sort of end.
People are now saying the video was just a perfect timing ploy for Bush and that the abuse photos were staged to get him out. I think it's all BS. Some poor guy is dead because of, what Limbaugh reportedly said, some soldiers blowing off steam.
This whole situation is fucked up and a changing of the guards here in the US will not make anything better. The beheading may have been a retaliation for the abuse but how do you explain the initial bombings and all of the people detained and killed already by the oppsing forces? What about the threats of setting the Japanese people on fire if Japan didn't pull out? Spain pussed out and left so it must be working with someone.
We didn't necessarily give them an excuse to start killing us, we just moved the victims closer to the slaugherhouse.
And as Clinton proved it is bad to pull out too soon, it will get you into lots of trouble ;)