Powell Meeting with Arafat CANCELLED - State Department, Fox News Channel

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Cancelled, not "on hold" and not "postponed".

[Southack]

"Was there any particular strategy in paying ransom to Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Phillippines?"

Besides providing a money trail to help identify and catch/kill the terrorists when they went to greedily pick up their blood money?

[Las Vegas Dave]

Interesting news I just heard on SAVAGE, that an ambulance bomb was waiting for Gen. Powell.
Savage said, "You didn't hear this on your local news, did you?"

[aBootes]

Interesting news I just heard on SAVAGE, that an ambulance bomb was waiting for Gen. Powell. Savage said, "You didn't hear this on your local news, did you?"

I believe that the story was originally on DEBKAfile, FWIW.

[vaudine]

I'm still trying to figure out why this terrorist leader of a non-nation was ever given diplomat credence, invited to the White House(Clinton--and more than once)or anything but denounced as a terrorist. He has BEEN a terrorist for more than 50 years and his message has NEVER changed.

I hope Powell/Bush Admin. does not cave in the face of sure to come outcries from our "friends" in Europe and the Mid East.

vaudine

[DJ88]

I think that you just thrive on controversy. Not one person here has said that they are "happy" about dead Jews. They are not just "Jews" they are human beings. It does not matter to me WHO they blew up, it matters that they BLEW them up.

Here's the story, pal: Colin Powell went over there to try and negotiate a peace deal. It did not work. Maybe they never THOUGHT it would work, either. But, oldfriend, there are more people than YOU living in this world, and because you can't see past the blinders on you're face, there HAS to be some sort of diplomacy tried here. If we did nothing, we would be blamed. We tried, and it failed. Arafat has sealed his own fate, the world has seen him for what he is, a MURDERING THUG TERRORIST, and YOU need to get off your high horse and start living in the real world instead of stewing in your own mud.

[agrace]

I hardly think we should be paying ransom $ but I don't think we should do NOTHING. That's pretty harsh, isn't it?

[DJ88]

Implying that they heard it here? Is that what he meant? Where the real news gets reported?

I think the administration probably gets more news here than anywhere else. (ping) ;-)

[TheDon]

So much for the red power ties.

[Principled]

I'm glad of course - but still totally bewildered on why the meeting was scheduled in the first place.

It was scheduled so that it could be canceled, silly.

[JAWs]

The next day in Ramallay they find a fish wrapped in a kayfeyah...

[hinckley buzzard]

There seems to be a method to what transpires...

Exactly. Just because the brain-damaged whores and jerk-offs of the media are confused doesn't mean that President Bush is. He is far smarter than the babbling heads, as usual.

[DJ88]

How true that is...although I will say you have a "unique" way of stating things. ;-)

[Doc On The Bay]

WELL, Now,---"The House of Saud!"

For the past 40-50 years, the "West" has Sincerely avoided ANY "interference" in the "Internal Affairs" of the "Dubious & Unsavory Monarchy" controlling "Saudi Arabia" because the "Saudis" kept the Oil Flowing! (with the substantial & critical Help of Western Technology!)

IF we "In the West" are now to be "Blackmailed" by the very "Primitives" we have enriched & "Civilized," Our Response to this Ignorant Betrayal can have NO "Civilized Moderation!"

Western Civilization is now in "Survival Mode!"

If Need Be, "The House of Saud" can go "Back to the Desert,"--Living on Dates & Banditry!!

& "The West" will "Go to the Stars" DESPITE them!

HOW SAD--that the "Alleged 'Cradle of Civilization'" is "occupied By" Those who place Their Personal "Authority" ahead of the Destiny of their Children!

"Omar Khayyam" would be HUMILIATED by the Current "Inheritors" of his Culture!

There will NEVER BE a Mosque on the Moon--or a Minaret on Mars--THANKS to the UTTER SOCIOPATHS who currently control "Islam!"

Doc

[Long Cut]

Because they like to maintain the fiction that they're "soldiers" or "freedom fighters". Plus, they, like many other holdovers from past decades, simply cannot bring themselves to leave that "radical-chic" look behind.

Pathetic, isn't it?

[Mixer]

I am shocked. This is great news.

[OldFriend]

Ah yes, the old clinton spin.........TRYING!!!!!!!!HOPING!!!!!!!!FEELING!!!!!!!!!!ALMOST SUCCEEDED!!!!!!!!!JUST AN HOUR AWAY!!!!!!!!! I've heard it all before. Negotiating with Arafat, inviting this peace partner to the White House, sure, why not! Same old, same old. Wouldn't want to offend.......

[OldFriend]

Powell's visit was to give legitimacy to Arafat!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Good. Bring back Powell before he has a chance to stop off and schmooze with any other Islamic scum.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

You are correct, and I think it sucks. GW is giving too much freedom to Colon Bowel. It's time for him to be unceremoniously fired.

[ChadGore]

YES !!