Reply With QuoteHe should make this speech that he gave to his saudi financiers to the families of 9/11 victims about who is treating who 'brutally'. gore is a pathetic clown.
Gore Decries Treatment of Arabs Post 9-11
Gore Decries Treatment of Arabs Post 9-11
By JIM KRANE
Associated Press Writer
February 13, 2006, 7:10 AM EST
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- 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."
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."
On Iran, Gore complained of "endemic hyper-corruption" among Tehran's religious and political elite and asked Arabs to take a stand against Iran's nuclear program.
Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes but the United States and other Western countries suspect Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.
"Is it only for the West to say this is dangerous?" Gore asked. "We should have more people in this region saying this is dangerous."
Several audience members criticized the United States for what they described as "unconditional" U.S. support for Israel, saying U.S. diplomats helped Israel flout U.N. resolutions that they enforced when the measures targeted Arabs.
Gore refused to be drawn into questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"We can't solve that long conflict in exchanges here," Gore said.
Also at the forum, the vice chairman of Chevron Corp., Peter Robertson, said President Bush's desire to cut U.S. dependence on Mideast oil shows a "misunderstanding" of global energy supply and the critical role of Saudi Arabia.
In his State of the Union address this month, Bush pledged to cut U.S. dependence on Middle East oil by 75 percent by 2025.
"This notion of being energy independent is completely unreasonable," Robertson said at the economic forum, which opened Saturday.
"I believe Middle Eastern oil can and must play a certain role in the system," Robertson said. "Saudi Arabia's massive resources will continue to promote international energy security and serve as a moderating force in balancing supply and demand."
Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, made a plea at the forum for women's rights, telling Saudi leaders that the dearth of women in the work force was "undermining economic potential" of the kingdom.
Irish President Mary McAleese urged Saudi Arabia to learn from Ireland's economic transformation, which hinged on opening the country to the outside world and ushering women into the workplace.
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Hist2004
He should make this speech that he gave to his saudi financiers to the families of 9/11 victims about who is treating who 'brutally'. gore is a pathetic clown.
I guess those concentration camps he is talking about are in Poland and Rumania. I sure don't see any around here. To think, he missed being elected President by a whisker!Originally Posted by hist2004
Rounded up and treated terribly? Has this sonuvabitch ever seen an Immigration facility? Contrary to popular belief, illegal aliens being processed for removal are NOT treated like everyday prisoners. One of the reasons illegal immigration is so bad right now is due to the lack of proper bedspace and lack of approved facilities.
Al Gore is a ****ing idiot. I'd like to see his proof that substantiates his allegations. ****er.
Yes lets badmouth a simple moron not the folks who run the country and could control this stupidity in the first place so people like him dont have fuel to throw on the fire.
Fact is the biggest kncukleheads are in the white house and you guys dont start any threads about them, wonder why. This guy wouldnt have a leg to stand on if you dont give him one.
Al Gore Event Funded by Bin Laden's Family
Monday, Feb. 13, 2006
The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore over the weekend in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden's family.
On Saturday, the state-run Saudi news outlet Arab News reported that the Jeddah Economic Forum, where Gore spoke, was funded by "Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Saudi Binladin Group, Gulf One Investment Bank, Saudi Basic Industries Corp." and an array of other big companies with ties to the Middle East.
The Saudi BinLadin Group - which is Saudi Arabia's largest construction company - is run by Osama bin Laden's brothers and cousins. Jeddah, the site of the forum attended by Gore, is Osama bin Laden's hometown.
Although family members claim they've disowned bin Laden, his mother told reporters after the 9/11 attacks that she received advanced warning from him that something big was about to happen.
A wealthy bin Laden niece also reportedly abandoned her lower Manhattan apartment three weeks before the 9/11 attacks.
The BinLadin Group's longtime involvement in the Jeddah forum has been widely reported in the Mideast and European press.
In January 2002, ex-President Clinton addressed the JEF, which paid him $267,000 for his speech. According to London's Financial Times:
"The conference was dominated by the Saudis' desire to overcome the pressures of September 11 and strengthen U.S.-Saudi ties . . . The BinLadin Group, one of the forum's backers, has been battered by its association with Osama."
Other JEF speakers that year included President Bush's younger brother, Neil.
It's not known whether - or how much - Mr. Gore was paid for his speech.
Hist2004
A simple moron? How about an ex-Vice President of the United States
badmouthing his country on foreign land while his country's at war.
Don't think this puts our troops in even more danger? Try telling them.
Hist2004
while i dont agree with the text of his speech your comment is out of line, bush, clinton, and gore all recieved large campaign contributions from the saudis, in fact the saudis have help finance almost all presidential candidates for the past 20 years as to keep them friendly to oil agreements , , thats not to say that its right. In fact i hope that we can quickly develop and impliment oil alternatiives and then we won;t have to deal with the suadis, they are backstabbers in my opinion
Gore is a bitter excuse of a man that just talks as much as he can because people pay tons of money to hear him say lie after lie. So in my book he has no creditability at all.
Gore can lick my a**hole
Gore should stick to things like inventing the internet, not apologizing for 'mistreatment' of muslims. God damn dhimmi
Why does his opinion matter anymore?
It matters because he almost was the chief representative of the US Constitution. And in the name of our(U.S.) Constitution he is making false statments and claiming that we are violating our prized document to of all freaking people the Saudis! Well like some one else posted, let him continue reinventing the internet! What a jerk Al Gore is, to bad Joe Lieberman actually was on the same ticket for I like his political stlye, plus he is a tough ass Jew!
I actually did not think of Gore as an asshole... Before I read this...
On Iran, Gore complained of "endemic hyper-corruption" among Tehran's religious and political elite and asked Arabs to take a stand against Iran's nuclear program.Well said."Is it only for the West to say this is dangerous?" Gore asked. "We should have more people in this region saying this is dangerous."
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