I'll tell you how you are lying to yourself: Gore would never have invaded an entire country because of 9/11. He would have sent in SEAL team 6 to kill Bin Laden.
Rather than answering a direct question, you have replied with a hypothetical action by a hypothetical president who you don't know personally. This is the sort of behavior that drove me away from politics as a useless exercise. Please, get more involved. I think it would suit you.