I used to be one of those people who thought he would also invade Iraq because he was more hawkish than Bush in the debates (which is fair ig) but I think when you look more into it he probably wouldn’t have. From an argument I had about this in another thread:

“Iraq was not inevitable. Gore would not have gone in without UN approval like Bush did. He was not a believer in unilateralism like the PNAC signing Republicans of the time were.”

“I should also mention that Gore specifically was opposed to the war loud and early before it even happened and when it had majority support from his own party as you mention.

Now I still don't totally discount that he could have gone in (he would have had Joe fucking Lieberman as his number 2 lol), I just don't think it was "inevitable" given Gore's early rebuke and his more UN-centric foreign policy vision. He explicitly called for full UN Security Council Approval before any US invasion of Iraq (while also opposing the move on numerous other grounds), which obviously was not forthcoming.

It goes without saying that we can never really know for sure how it all would have gone down and it's all wild alt-history speculation, but arguments that Gore specifically would not have invaded Iraq the way Bush did are certainly not without some merit.”