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February 13, 2006
Reason number 4,872 why Al Gore is a retard
4,872. He went to Saudi Arabia and complained that America doesn't kiss enough Saudi ass, and that Americans abuse Arabs.
Seriously.
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."Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."
"Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," Gore said. "I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."
The folks at Powerline have a good rejoinder to the 2008 presidential hopeful's latest act of craven pandering to people who don't give a damn about us.
UPDATE
Michelle Malkin comments:
Let's cut through Gore's disgraceful slander and pander. The immediate post-9/11 detention of illegal aliens from suspect countries netted 762 aliens -- nearly all of them here illegally -- who were held while being investigated for possible ties to terrorism. . .
The notion that Saudis are entitled to unfettered visas to work, study, and do business in this country--the notion that entry into America is an entitlement and not a privilege--cost 3,000 innocent lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
How much did the Saudis pay you to forget, Al?
Posted by Mike Lief at February 13, 2006 07:39 AM