What is wrong with this guy. Well, don't answer that. But for starters, where does he get off going to an Arab country and slamming our country's treatment of their people!? You've got all the anti-personal responsibility media, American left, and Europeans all claiming "incitement" and "provocation" when it comes to the violence over the cartoons... But is this not, at the very least, "incitement" and "provocation"!? What is this guy doing? We already had Rockefeller admit the following:

I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq

I'm not smart enough to know, but many have accused him of treason. I think it at least warrants an investigation, and I'm not sure why we haven't seen anything outside of the blogosphere and a couple mentions on FNC.

Anyway, back to Gore (read the whole story here, partial exceprt below):

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."

So let me get this straight, no Bush hates Saudis? Last I knew, the left was saying that he was in the pocket of the Saudis trying to get that oil money, and that there was this big 9/11 conspiracy where Bush flew them out of the country, etc. Go on all the far left (which is now mainstream left) sites and see if you can find one that doesn't talk about Bush and his "Saudi oil buddies", and most will also talk about all these "secret" relationships between the Bush family and the Saudi Princes, etc. I guess Gore is just trying to cover all the bases? I think that was what caused all the Kerry flip-flops too.

The global warmists have succeeded in this sort of bologna. For starters in 1975 the Newsweek cover story that the left doesn't want you to know about was an alarmist story of "global cooling". I grew up in Vermont hearing about "global warming" as long as I can remember (annoyingly once out of high school that global warming wasn't a fact, and is actually quite a bunch of BS). Anyway, it's always about heating up the Earth. In recent years when we've had cold winters they've said "um... oh yeah.. uh... that's part of it... we've got global warming, but that will causes cold winters and probably usher in at least a mini-ice age..." So basically we can't ever say "it's the weather" anymore because if it's cold or hot, record precipitation or record dry, it's all just part of global warming. Similarly Bush is in bed with the Saudis and it's a big conspiracy, but he's also committing "terrible abuses" against them in our country.

Well, at least we can be thankful that he isn't our President, right? But Bill Clinton was and he's pulled this same overseas America bashing lately too.

Dubai, UAE

Former President Clinton told Arab students Wednesday the United States made a "big mistake" when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.

Quick self plug.. Again I ask... What happened to the Democrats?

Expose The Left's Ian Schwartz wonders also why these Dems feel the need to go overseas to preach their hate of America. Seriously, do they think they're hiding it from us, like we don't already know?

Others blogging this:
Michelle Malkin, (h/t for the list) Oblogatory Anecdotes, Atlas Shrugs, Blogs For Bush, National Institute For Truth and Freedom, Explicitly Ambiguous, Slobokan, Polipundit