Don't know. But he had made statements that he believed that Saddam had WMDs and would use them. The Democrat leadership had access to the same intel as the administration and they also believed Saddam had WMDs and was willing to use them. The head of the CIA was a Clinton-Gore appointment and he assured Bush the intel was a "slam dunk" that Saddam had WMDs.

So does it make sense that Algore would listen to his own CIA head whom he had a hand in appointing? Yeah it makes sense...