Al Gore Sucks Up To Saudis.

Apparently, it's not just the Bush family who is cozy with the Saudis. How else to explain this AP story that describes former Vice-President Al Gore's bottom-kissing speech in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia? (Here.)

The former VP took the occasion of this speech to slam the American government's actions in the War on Terror in front of a foreign audience, on foreign soil, in a country where most of the 9/11 hijackers originated. In the speech he recited the usual litany of complaints about abuses of Arabs after 9/11, and told his audience that Americans did not support the Bush Administration's tactics. And then he apparently came out in favor of increased Saudi immigration to the United States and not enforcing America's immigration laws.

"He said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaeda's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications. Gore said 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.'"

The man's personal animus against the current President, and his bitterness at being thwarted in his attempt to steal the election in Florida in 2000, has driven him off the deep end. The man should be ashamed of himself.

-tdr

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