"Arabs in the United States have 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."
Bill O'Reilly's show called Al Gore's office to find out which Arab's, Gore was talking about and what places the former VP thought were "unforgivable." Gore's office would not give examples. "It figures!"
Well, this sucks! I wanted to know!
After 9/11, we did round up many people, (Almost all Arab) whose paperwork and Visa's were illegal. The figure I have is that only 13 people were wrongly picked up. Out of hundreds of people who had faulty green cards, only 13 were mistakes!
Remember that we were just attacked by terrorists who were living in this country. Some of them had expired Visa's. We had to check all Arab's with expired Visa's.
We didn't have offshore military prisons, set up for this, at that point. These folks were put into general population in a normal prison.
So what the hell is Al Gore talking about?
I could almost understand if Gore was criticizing America here in this country. But to do this in other countries, it doesn't make sense? Democrats are not gaining votes by saying this stuff overseas. Just bashing this country and getting paid for it.You never saw Nixon, Reagan, Ford or Bush condemn Clinton or Carter while they were the President. It wasn't because they couldn't. Both Carter and Clinton gave republicans lots of dirty laundry to air to the world. The former republican presidents didn't take part in attacking democratic president because of dignity.
It is called respect for the presidency! (Not necessarily respect for the man!)
I had done a post on this topic (on November 4, 2005 7:46 PM)
You can click here for that post! Titled "Out Of Power And Out Of Control"
Just add Al Gores name to it if you read it!
