France's Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage

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[Happy2BMe]

Thursday November 11, 1:03 PM

France's Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.

"It is with emotion that I have just learnt of the death of President Yasser Arafat, the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority," Chirac said in a written statement on Thursday. "I offer my very sincere condolences to his family and to people close to him."

Chirac urged the international community to persevere with efforts to ensure an international peace plan known as the road map is put into effect in the Middle East.

[Happy2BMe]

How befitting.

[Izzy Dunne]

I just woke up - is Arafat going to stay dead this time?

[Happy2BMe]

Chirac covers his ar$e - ping.

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French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.

[dokmad]

Leave it to France to try to define "Courage" Cowardice it their area of expertise!!

[notkerry]

Chirac and Arafat should both rot in hell

[beyond the sea]

France's Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage

Here's hailing France's Chirac as a man of thievery and extremely low character.

[Happy2BMe]

He's doing this obligatory salutation for fire insurance - hoping not to be attacked by Allah's faithful in the coming months.

[misusu21]

. Lafayette Rest in Peace.

[Redleg Duke]

Crap! Arafat is dead and the French are still afraid of him!

[Time is now]

Courage? In 1972 did it take courage to slaughter 12 unarmed Israeli athletes? How big a man does it take to shoot an old man (Leon Klinghoffer) in a wheelchair and push him off the side of a boat? Bombing a pizza parlor? Strapping bombs to teenage girls to kill other teenage girls?

I hope he is in the seventh circle of Hell, waist deep in the molten lava with the Harpies gouging at his eyes for all eternity.

[kassie]

My thoughts exactly.

[Recon by Fire]

Chirac gave millions of dollars to Arafat, so he considers him a good friend. Chirac is a mental dwarf.

[fsorbello]

I think they'll have created a special level of hell just for this terrorist.

[AmericanChef]

Chirac is such a prostitute.

[Recon by Fire]

The French are not afraid of the Germans, that is why they are planting trees on both sides of every road in France so that when the Nazis invade again, they will have plenty of shade.

[Nosterrex]

How can any moral human being praise a terrorist such as Arafat? Not only has he murdered innocent women and children, but his actions have caused nothing but death and poverty for the PLO. He is no better than Saddam, Hitler, or Stalin. It looks as if the Vichy government is back in power.

[samtheman]

Chirac doesn't have courage, he doesn't know courage, he doesn't want courage. Modern French culture despises courage. It only values pandering. And by that measure, Chirac is a great French leader.

[kcvl]

PUKE!

[RightOnline]

The French deserve a drooling twit such as Chirac.

[Skooz]

CIA files reveal that Arafat ripped babies from their mother's wombs, killing both mother and child.

The man was a vicious murderer and terrorist. Chirac is little better.

[Caipirabob]

He's not "Getting better..."

[MortMan]

A man of courage??? A Palestinian afraid to die (and stay dead) is a MAN OF COURAGE??? ROFL!

[kittymyrib]

That's why it took so long for him to die...Satan had to bring in more fuel for the terrorists wing of Hell.

[PGalt]

Thanks President Bush for your non-dialogue with that DEAD A$$HOLE.

[Bob from De]

After hearing all the corrupt politicians describe this terrorist, they had better place guards at the tomb to witness his ascention to virgin land.
Why does no reporter ask if he had AIDS?
He wore gloves in the video where the fat guy looked afraid that Arafat would infect him!
They have said what he didn't have, but have they ever said what he did have?

[carlyaxt]

Next to the French Leaders, he is heroic.

[meyer]

French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.

Compared to Chirac, Pee Wee Herman is a man of courage.

[rbg81]

I keep reading how bitter the French are about no longer being a world power & that this is a factor in their antagonism toward the US. With their "leaders" making bonehead statements like this, it should be no surprise to anyone that France has fallen to a 2nd rate power. In fact, I'm surprised that it hasn't become a Third World country yet. With the rest of Europe proping them up, this transition may take a few more decades.

[blackdog]

Chirac is deeply saddened by the passing of Arafat and along with him, the several million a month commission paid to Chirac for the support of the good people of France to the Palestinian cause.

[BillyCrockett]

This whole Chirac BS is quite obvious, isn't it? He hopes that, now that AraFAT has died in a french hospital after the french doctors did "all they could" to help him, all of France will be spared any future Islamic terrorist strike. The man has BBs for balls.

[Ginifer]

Not only the French are saying this...China calls him "a great leader", etc. It's called CYA...maybe then the radical Islamists won't go after them if they kiss a@@. Morally bankrupt nations.

[JesseHousman]

What was poor Jacques Chirac to do?

If he spoke badly of Yassar he might end up on television getting his head sawed off.

[blackdog]

Hey Chirac, it was never the state he struggled for. That is documented at this point. It was only the struggle he struggled for. He would have been lost and useless if the Palestinian state had been formed as was offered to him, with Bill Clinton and Dennis Ross as witness.

If the palestinian on the street uctually understood what Arafat did to them, they would go ballistic and tear him to shreds, scattering his bits to the sewer. The state was his for the taking. He just never expected it would be offered.

[elli1]

Crap! Arafat is dead and the French are still afraid of him!

LOL Post of the Day!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

"I know, Willie. We're all going to miss Yasser."

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL!!

[Luke]

I'm surprised that William Jefferson Blyth a.k.a Bill Clinton was over there holding Chirac's hand.

[truthandlife]

Perhaps Arafat's signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.

[Carolinamom]

As usual Chirac is dead wrong. Arafat refused Israel's more than generous offer and continued the terrorism. He was an evil man....NOT the Palestinian's George Washington.

[aardvark1]

Hitler was probably a man of 'courage' as was Al Capone. However, courage by itself is not a sufficient guiding principle.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

And the French honestly wonder what has happened to their credibility.

[daybreakcoming]

Why should we be surprised at Crapirac's emotional outburst at Arafat's death? Wouldn't you love for an agency like IRS to follow the French leader's money trail? His words today along with X-Carter longing to go to the funeral is a slap in the face of Jews living in France, US and around the world. But yet, they are a voting block for the Demos - I just don't get it.

[American Vet Repairman]

"French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state."

I just had an upper G.I. done yesterday and reading this was far...far more nauseating.

[FBD]

Chirac praises Arafat?
I'm shocked... shocked, I tell ya!
Here's a little poem I'd like to dedicate to him:

That Jacques Chirac,
Isn't worth me spit.
Traiterous appeasor,
And a nasty little $#!T.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[SirLurkedalot]

Le Bump

[rang1995]

well F--k the frog

[F15Eagle]

French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.

Chirac is an idiot.

[MeekOneGOP]

Chirac sure loves to hug Terrorists.