Today at the Islamic Society of Tampa, Dennis “Mind Control Satellites” Kucinich pandered to the victimhood mentality of CAIR: At Tampa mosque, Kucinich says Muslims unfairly targeted by U.S.. (Hat tip: TS.)

TAMPA, Fla. — Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio U.S. Rep.who led a fight in the U.S. House against war in Iraq, visited a mosque Tuesday and told the congregation that he thought American Muslims were unfairly targeted by the U.S. government.

“At this time of rolling back of civil liberties, all Americans need to be worried about any American deprived of his or her rights,” Kucinich said at the Islamic Society of Tampa. “All Americans should be very concerned about a government trying to get more and more into peoples’ private lives.

Kucinich said his opposition to the war in Iraq will take him to the White House.

“The war was wrong. It was wrong,” he said. “We went to war under false pretenses. Americans were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to be true. Just because they caught Saddam Hussein doesn’t mean going into Iraq was right.”

Kucinich also opposed the Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to give the government more access to private records and to make it easier to prosecute accused terrorists.

The Islamic Society of Tampa was the planned target of Tampa podiatrist Robert Goldstein, who assembled an arsenal of weapons before he was arrested and in June was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the board of the Florida Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that if the Patriot Act were truly intended to be fair, Goldstein would have been prosecuted under its provisions.

“Goldstein could have been used to give the Muslim community more of a sense of comfort,” Ahmed said.