Why did Bush condemn anti-Arab profiling prior to 9/11?

[happydreams]

Was this to facilitate MIHOP and obstruct investigations?
I mean you never heard a word from him about profiling of blacks.

This is from an article in March 2004:


....Mustafa's personal shift illustrates a problem for President Bush, who in 2000 condemned anti-Arab profiling in a nationally televised debate, and then went on to win a healthy plurality of the Arab American vote in four of the largest battleground states, including Pennsylvania.

....
Kerry led Bush 54 percent to 30 percent among the estimated 550,000 Arab American voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Florida, the March 14 Zogby International poll found. Sixty-five percent of respondents said it was time for a new president.

That's a big swing from 2000, when 46 percent of voters of Arab descent in the four states voted for Bush, versus 29 percent for then-Vice President Al Gore and 13 percent for Lebanese American consumer activist Ralph Nader, who was running as a Green Party candidate.

"I don't know what Bush does to win them back," said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, which commissioned the poll from the firm run by John Zogby, his brother. "They can't afford to write off any group that has hundreds of thousands of voters in key states."

Arab Americans could be about 2.7 percent of the 19.8 million voters expected to cast ballots in the four battleground states Nov. 2, according to the pollster's projections based on turnout in 2000.

One thing seems sure: It's a far cry from Oct. 11, 2000, when candidate Bush spoke out in a debate with Gore against the use of "secret evidence" in deportation proceedings against Arab immigrants.

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http://www.aaiusa.org/aainews/2004/aainews033004.htm

[seemslikeadream]

1. BUDDY BUDDY Atta?

:hi:

BUDDY BUDDY
http://www.gsnmagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/images/aug_05/atta.jpg
DO THE MATH

24 MINUTES

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILITARY ORDER WATCH THIS VIDEO

http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html


http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/14022541.htm
But Moussaoui's court-appointed defense team is ready to urge the jury that the 37-year-old Moroccan-born French citizen should be spared execution because he knew far less about the plot than top officials in the Bush administration, including then-CIA Director George Tenet.

[WinkyDink]

2. Could be he wanted the Nader votes.

[libodem]

3. House of Bush/House of Saud

has a section devoted to the explanation. I wish I could expound but I don't recall the details, I seem to give all my good books away.

[happydreams]

5. I've got that book. I'll look it up. Also

I never lend my books to anybody. If somebody doesn't want to pay the money for the book then they must not be that interested.

[fujiyama]

4. Simple

He wanted Arab American votes. It was an important block of votes in several swing states like MI and FL and they seemeed like potential republicans being that many are socially conservative. Plus Bush knew he wouldn't have much luck with Jewish votes with Lieberman on the ticket.

Also, he figured he could exploit the distrust among many had for a Jewish VP.

[dorkulon]

6. Not to defend the chimp

but any freeper would tell you, "because that was BEFORE 9/11." Then they'd cite your question of further evidence of Dems' "pre-9/11 mentality."