If you missed President Gore’s rousing barn burner of a speech (full text here, video here, here are the highlights.

NEW YORK — Al Gore delivered a blistering denunciation Wednesday of the Bush administration’s “twisted values and atrocious policies” in Iraq and demanded the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George Tenet.

Raising his voice to a yell in a speech at New York University, Gore said: “How dare they subject us to such dishonor and disgrace! How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein’s torture prison!”

The Democratic former vice president said the situation in Iraq is spinning out of control.

“I am calling today for Republicans as well as Democrats to join me in asking for the immediate resignations of those immediately below George Bush and Dick Cheney, who are most responsible for creating the catastrophe we are facing in Iraq,” Gore said, drawing strong applause from the partisan crowd.

“Donald Rumsfeld ought to resign immediately!” Gore bellowed. “Our nation is at risk every single day Rumsfeld remains as secretary of defense. We need someone with good judgment and common sense.”

Rice “ought to resign immediately. She has badly mishandled the coordination of national security policy. This is a disaster for our country,” he said.

I’ll say something that might shock you: I don’t care whether any of them resign. The fact is, Bush will simply replace them with people who are just as bad. What difference will it make?

Not much, I suspect.