Even if Gore was President, we still might have gone to Iraq. The Republicans voted for the Iraq Resolution in 2002. Also, about 40% of Democrats still voted for the Iraq Resolution. In the Senate, Democrats voted for the Iraq Resolution 29-21. And in 2002, the American public was all about taking down all kinds of perceived terrorism, and Saddam was at the perceived top. It would have been difficult for Gore to not take action.
I suppose anything could've happened but I don't think we would've gone to Iraq with Gore. Here's the reason: The Bush admin was the primary driver of going to Iraq. They provided all the false intelligence and false narrative that Congress voted on. Without that impetus I don't think we would've gone to war. Just follow the money, Cheney gets us into war, Halliburton gets billions in governement contracts (Cheney's old company), Cheney gets cash kickback in the millions from Halliburton.
They presented fake evidence to Congress and Congress voted in good conscience that the information provided to them by the administration was correct. They were misled.
Though I'm not naive and know that both parties are bought and sold by corporations there is a HUGE difference between Dems and the GOP. Dems are at least trying to govern in a shitty system, the GOP has done almost nothing to govern. I can name a handful of platform ideas the Dems have proposed, can't name a one the GOP has proposed.
GOP wins both houses and their first order of business is to gut Dodd-Frank and let banks gamble with our money even to a riskier degree than previously when they crashed our economy. They also voted to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) for the 56th time. They've spent more time trying to repeal Obamacare than actually passing any laws to help anyone but the rich and the corps.
Right now no GOP rep has any major ideas to address any of our major national issues. They are not interested in governing...ju
st grabbing the cash and running, at least the Dems try.