More and more, it seems that Al Gore's failure to win a few hundred more votes in Florida in November 2000 was a fateful moment of world history. Indeed, it could be said that the opening of the 21st century was decided by a single vote. As Bill Clinton once said, George Bush won the 2000 election "fair and square, five to four at the Supreme Court".
The consequence of that decision is still being played out in the daily carnage of the death squads and suicide bombers in Iraq, and for us in Britain, more parochially, in the ruin of Tony Blair's once-great promise. The Independant
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