Would Gore have gone to war in Iraq?
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Might have hesitated to make this remark if I’d anticipated so much curiosity and skepticism about it, not because I think it’s wrong, but simply because I’m not too invested in litigating counterfactuals about a war that began more than a decade ago. Still, perhaps it’s worth remembering that from the very invasion of Iraq, the American left saw the wa…