Where are they Al?
Posted on 02/13/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by Quilla
The man who came within a hair's breadth of the presidency in 2000 is denouncing his own government on foreign soil, the Associated Press reports:
Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.
"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."
There is a comical element to this, as Glenn Reynolds notes: "Only Al Gore could come up with the idea of criticizing Bush for not sucking up to the Saudis enough. Sigh."
Heh. Indeed. But blogger "TigerHawk" makes some serious points:
This is asinine both substantively and procedurally.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
The only consolation is that Gore likely would have done a lot more damage had he spent four years in the White House. And given the precedent set by Jimmy Carter, it isn't hard to imagine Gore as an embittered one-term ex-president giving the same speech in Jeddah.
Al Gore is guilty of treason. He is a traitor to our country. Anyone who would lower himself to do what he did on foreign soil even should not even be allowed back into this great country. He has proven himself for what he truly is and any pity I had for him in earlier threads is gone. I no longer pity him. He is what he is. Like Rush says: "A tiger is a tiger." Nothing more...nothing less. I'm glad MY name is not GORE.
Al-Gorzeera........
Taliban Al
Where are they Al?
According to Al Gore then, it was reprehensible for the USA to attack Japan after Pearl Harbor ....
They'll never charge him. I would treat him for delusional hysteria.
Al,
The channels of friendship between Saudi and US that led to 15 of the 19 911 hijackers being Saudi?
The channels of friendship that led the Saudis to cooperate with the US in investigating,locating and punishing those who killed 19 American soldiers on saudi soil at Khobar towers...?
Those channels of friendship?
Taliban-Tipper.......
May the parasites of 1000 camels infest his small intestine for eternity.
Can we prosecute this POS?
... and old Al isn't the only one.. unfortunately both parties grovel to the Saudis.
Unfortunately, there's probably no controlling legal authority that prevents Arabia Al from doing what he's doing, as revolting as it is.
What's the legal definition of sedition?
Maybe we can get Gore in on Cheney's next hunting trip...and ask Teddy K. to drive Gore to the hospital.
Not only could could this smokely dokely brain-fried nerd not name one "Arab" who was mistreated by the USG after 9-11...but I'm sure he could not name of the 19 young troops killed in Daharan during his watch as VP.
How about a class action suit suing him for jeapordizing our safety and inciting hatred for America.
Anyone bother to ask what Al the Bore is doing over there? Sure smells like his and BJ Bubba's illegal campaign fund raising with the Chinese in 1996. Go over, tell the crowd what they want to hear, pocket the check, move on to the next group of suckers. Al the Bore wants to run in 2008 and bet he got a whole lot of money for telling the Al Qeda support network in Saudi EXACTLY what they wanted to hear.
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