Whose side is Al Gore on? Saudi Arabia, one of the chief sponsors of terrorism in the world, a kleptocracy that has reaped hundreds and hundreds of billions from the poor of the world by oligopolistic control of oil, a nation that has spread anti—Semitism and anti—Christianity , and anti—Americanism throughout the world, gets to nourish its hatreds as Al Gore gores America.

Former U.S. vice—president Al Gore told an audience 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. He said the administration of President George W. Bush 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 Jidda 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."

By the way, Saudis are also spearheading the boycott of Denmark — a true ally. Gore blasts America for our actions after 9/11 in Saudi Arabia, home of almost all of the 9/11 murderers.

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