:"The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat . . . [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3192596 ]
The book starts with a complaint about a lack of public debate leading up to the Iraq War.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622015,00.html</ref> He doesn't give any example of any other war in all of human history was more publicly and openly debated.
Gore also makes one very good point, which will be appreciated by conservatives who distrust the media elite: