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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Just how was Al Gore’s US slam in Saudi Arabia funded?
This article gives the details:
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.
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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.
(Hat tip to ST reader Jim M.)
So Al, just how much did you sell us out for? And I wonder what all the usual suspects, who routinely charge Bush with “coddling” the Saudis, think about this?
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I was right!!! OBL could of wrote Al’s Speech. Might as well start calling him Al bin Laden.
– Lorica
“And I wonder what all the usual suspects, who routinely charge Bush with “coddling” the Saudis, think about this?”
Everybody gets some petro-dollars.
Andrew what does “Petrol-dollars” have to do with Al Gore being paid for his tear down America speech in Saudi Arabia partly paid for by the Bin Laden family. You accuse people all the time about bring Clintons name into discussions and you are doing the sane thing by metioning Bush when Gore is the subject.
Thank God for the Electoral College
“You accuse people all the time about bring Clintons name into discussions and you are doing the sane thing by metioning Bush when Gore is the subject.”
Who mentioned Bush? I mentioned saudi wealth in general. If that brings up Bush in your head, thats your fault. Not mine.
But If you want, I’d be for a general rule against business with the Saudis.
Gore is a reprehensible traitor to truth and liberty.
ST,
nice little expose’ on al-Gore, I’m going to have to link this one
Check out the Carlyle group and the Bush family’s connection to the Royal family of Saudi Arabia, if you’re really interested in who sold the US out. Actually, we’re not interested in the King of SA anyway, because he’s(they) not the threat. The threat comes from the Wahhabists. Peace
ST, I’ve got your story linked here;
http://amboytimes.blogspot.com/2006/02/al-gore-and-al-quaeda.html
Lorica – Its Mohammud al-Gore….
- Bang
This is the chicken-or-the-egg argument:
Are Dems reciting alQueda talking points, or is alQueda reciting Dem talking points?
The worls may never know.
We (the world) May never know how many licks it takes to get the center of a tootsie pop either.
Just playin’ with ya J Rob. You do have a point tho. Is OBL faxing Al or is Al faxing OBL??? – Lorica
Forget about Al Gore, President Bush is selling our seaports to the Arabs,
Ex-conservative
Tamara, You want to explain your reasoning? Bush doesn’t own the ports nor is he receiving any money from the UAE.
Also, Tammy, I don’t believe you were ever a conservative.
Cool. We don’t need conservatives who generalize about “Arabs”.
BTW, the sale was from a British company to a UAE company. Bush didn’t sell (inaccurate accusation) and according to him he didn’t even know about the sale. It was approved (as Time Magazine wrote) by “evaluation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency body that assesses the security implications of foreign acquisitions of major U.S. infrastructure assets”