I'm sorry for US atrocities on Arabs after Sept 11, says Gore

Telegraph ^ | 14/02/2006 | Alec Russel

[demlosers]

The US committed "terrible atrocities" against Arabs after the September 11 attacks, according to Al Gore, President George W Bush's defeated rival for the White House in 2000.

Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up", often on minor charges, and held in "unforgiveable conditions", the former vice-president told a mainly Saudi audience at the Jeddah Economic Forum.

"Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," he said. "I want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."

Mr Gore said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qa'eda's hands by routinely blocking visas for Saudis but he also challenged Arabs to take a stronger stand against Iran's nuclear plans.

More than 1,000 non-Americans were detained on immigration charges and thousands more interviewed after 9/11. Officials deny they were held in poor conditions.

Six months after the attacks, the FBI was conducting about 325 investigations into suspected "hate crimes" against Arab or Muslim people.

[cvq3842]

Sad, but true.

[blackbart.223]

Look at it this way. Gore will never be Presiedent and that fact will continue to choke him.

[lndrvr1972]

Does he realize the fact that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia? I just think that he has fallen off of his rocker.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Shall we fan the fire?

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Disregarding the political retoric, finally the media has printed what the world must think of the likes of Ted Kennedy.
 
Tony Phyrill! as, a columnist for The Mercury, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in Pottstown, Pa.
 
TED KENNEDY, CLOWN OF THE SENATE
 
That Ted Kennedy is a Democrat is irrelevant. That Ted Kennedy is a liberal doesn't matter, either. The fact that Ted Kennedy is a buffoon should be of concern to all of Americans. The United States, collectively, should be embarrassed to have Ted Kennedy serving in the Senate.
 
So many liberals are concerned about America's image abroad. They coddle the corrupt United Nations because it matters to them how America is perceived.
 
If anyone outside the United States watched Kennedy's performance during the confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito, they would come away with only one impression of the state of American politics. The circus has come to town. The only thing missing from Kennedy's wardrobe was a red rubber nose and oversized shoes.
 
Do the voters of Massachusetts realize that Ted Kennedy is regarded as a court jester in the other 49 states? What does that say about residents of Massachusetts and their blind obedience to a political antique who rode his dead brothers' coattails to the national spotlight four decades ago? The gene pool dried up by the time Joseph and Rose Kennedy had young Teddy.
 
I propose a Constitutional amendment prohibiting Massachusetts from voting in national elections until the good folks of the Bay State stop electing the likes of Ted Kennedy and John Forbes Kerry to the Senate.
 
When it comes to politics, Republicans are good at policing their own. Tom Delay was the most powerful member of the House of Representatives a year ago. Delay hasn't been convicted of any crime and his indictment by a Democratic prosecutor in Texas is politically motivated. But DeLay had become damaged goods for the party. He was a lightning rod for the left-wing attack dogs. Republicans took care of their problem. Delay is no longer in a position of authority and his days in Congress are numbered.
 
Liberals refuse to deal with embarrassments like Ted Kennedy or Dick Durban or Barbara Boxer. Kennedy, the captain of the Chappaquiddick Swim Team, has been in the Senate for 44 years. Durban compared American soldiers fighting in Iraq to "Nazis." Boxer is just plain batty.
 
By the time the Alito hearings were done, all Kennedy could show his radical left puppet masters was the ability to bring Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, to tears with absurd accusations that Judge Alito was a bigot because he joined a conservative college club at Princeton that wouldn't admit women and minorities.
 
By the way, Alito will be confirmed by the Senate with at least 60 votes.
 
Imagine if the tables had been reversed. How would Ted Kennedy like to answer questions about his past, specifically, the suspicious and untimely death of Mary Jo Kopechne?
 
For those not old enough to remember, Mary Jo Kopechne was a 28-year-old woman that a married Ted Kennedy was driving home after a party on Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy was one of five married men at the party, which was also attended by six young single women. On July 18, 1969, Kennedy, driving on an expired driver's license, drove his car off a narrow wooden bridge into a pond on the tiny island of Chappaquiddick, adjacent to Martha's Vineyard. The car sank in eight-feet of water, landing on its roof. Kennedy saved himself, walked back to the cottage where the party was taking place and told a couple of his buddies about the crash.
 
Kennedy didn't report the accident to police until the next day when Kopechne's body was fished out of the water. Kennedy was never charged in Kopechne's death, this was Massachusetts after all, but Kennedy's presidential ambitions drowned with Kopechne. He did plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence and a year's probation.
 
Here's a man with a history of alcoholism who caused the death of a woman attempting to smear the good name of a judge because Alito joined a college club the liberals don't approve. Only in America.
 
Led by Kennedy, Senate Democrats made fools of themselves during the Alito hearings. The site of a bunch of liberal millionaires attempting to tarnish the stellar reputation of a man who grew up in a working class Italian neighborhood in Newark, N.J., speaks volume about how disconnected Democrats have become from the country.
 
This is not the party of the working man, the immigrant and the churchgoer. This is the party of Ivy League snobs, of West Coast loons, the radical left and the abortion-on-demand lobby. This is a party that couldn't find the American heartland if you gave them a map and pointed them in the right direction. It's a party led by cynics grasping at straws as they see their grip on political power slip away.
 
If Democrats want to know why they're becoming the permanent minority party, look no further than the rogue's gallery they have for leaders: Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Forbes Kerry, Dick Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.
 
Ted Kennedy, who turns 74 in February, joined the Senate in 1962. He's running for re-election in November and will probably retain his Senate seat until he's 80. Someday there will be no Ted Kennedy. And the world will be a better place.

[NRA2BFree]

DTG: 140755C FEB 06

FM: OLD SARGE

TO: ALGORE

1. SCREW YOU.
2. NOTHING FOLLOWS

EOM///

Couldn't you have said that with a little more feeling? LOL

[DoughtyOne]

Al, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Remember?

[capecodconservative]

He's absolutely lost the little sanity he ever had. Stick him in a lock box and throw away the key.

[Pajamajan]

Gee thanks Al- I'm sure your comments will be helpful with the reporter Jill Carrol's hostage situation , not to mention Al Queda recruiting.

The fact that 1/2 of our citizens voted for this treasonous SOB to be president does NOT bode well for the future of our country.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Like I needed to see this first thing in the morning : (

Can you imagine if Gore had been elected president? I really don't know what to say.

[Fintan]

"I want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."
 

You don't have a country anymore, you worthless, seditious, psychotic sack of sh!t.

[conservativecorner]

Al Gore is a complete piece of shite'.

[walford]

This gives us an idea of what Gore would have done after 9/11. OBL would still be operating openly in Afghanistan after a few impotent cruise missile strikes. Saddam would most definitely be in power, bribing the UN while filling mass-graves and financing terrorism.

It is arguable also that more large-scale attacks would have occurred on US soil.

This is the answer to anyone who laments Bush's election in 2000.

[blackbart.223]

"Does he realize the fact that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia? I just think that he has fallen off of his rocker."

Al has never been on his rocker. Thank God this treasonous bastard isn't calling the shots for America.

[texasmountainman]

I thought Gore invented hunting also.

[blackbart.223]

"You don't have a country anymore, you worthless, seditious, psychotic sack of sh!t."

Manure can serve a purpose. Al never can.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

I'm sorry for US atrocities on Arabs after Sept 11, says Gore

The real atrocity was Al Gore being a bullet away from being president from 1993-2000.

[subterfuge]

The poor, sad excuse for a man is proving he is a mentally deranged crack-pot.

[blackbart.223]

"I thought Gore invented hunting also."

Gore only invented himself. And what a bad invention that was.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Reminds me of that sappy John Denver song..

I'm sorry for the way things are in China...
More than anything else, I'M SORRY FOR MYSELF....

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Short rope, tall tree.