The whole time I read Cal Thomas’ indictment of Al Gore for treason, I kept thinking about this series of pictures, including Bush kissing the Saudi prince and holding his hand.

Calcified Cal seems to forget that, not only is Saudi Arabia an official ally in the War Without End, but that the royal family is joined at the hips with our own King George. mjh

Cal Thomas Al Gore’s diminished capacity

Last Sunday, Gore spoke to the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia. He trashed his country on the soil of one of the most repressive regimes on earth — a monarchy that incubated 15 of the 19 hijackers who killed 3,000 of his fellow citizens on Sept. 11, 2001, and is the home country of Osama bin Laden. …

That Gore has “lost it” is evident from his personal attacks on the president, whom he has called “the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon” and a man who “has brought deep dishonor to our country.” Gore has called the president a “moral coward” and referred to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse as “the Bush Gulag.” He has accused the administration of an alliance with “digital brownshirts,” called the administration “simultaneously dishonest and incompetent,” and said the president is “out of touch with reality.” [mjh: Note that Gore may not have said any of these things during his “treasonous” speech in Saudi Arabia, but Cal Thomas is happy to leave you with that impression.]

Even allowing for excesses of political rhetoric, such comments are way over extreme. …

For Gore to make his anti-American remarks in Saudi Arabia is at least as bad as what Nazi sympathizers said in this country and abroad leading up to and during World War II. One definition of “treason” is: Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

By any objective standard, Al Gore’s remarks in Saudi Arabia appear to fit the definition.