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Former US President Jimmy Carter calls Arafat a "powerful human symbol"
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Posted on 11/11/2004 8:56:09 AM PST by Saeder

Jimmy Strikes Again

MIAMI (AFP) - Former US President Jimmy Carter called Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Palestinians in their pursuit of a homeland.

"Yasser Arafat's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Palestinians throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world," Carter said.

"He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland," he said in a statement distributed by his Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center.

He said that while Arafat provided "indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement" and played a key role in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from negotiations in recent years.

"My hope is that an emerging Palestinian leadership can benefit from Arafat's experiences, be welcomed to the peace process by (Israeli) Prime Minister (Ariel) Sharon and (US) President (George W.) Bush, and be successful in helping to forge a Palestinian state living in harmony with their Israeli neighbors," Carter said.

Both Carter and Arafat are Nobel peace prize laureates.

Arafat, who died at a Paris hospital early Thursday, was to be buried at his West Bank headquarters after a military funeral ceremony in Cairo Friday.

Carter "will not be attending the funeral," said Jon Moor, a Carter Center spokesman.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appeasor; arafat; badsymbolofgeorgia; barf; cartermalaise; dictatorbuttnuzzler; embarassment; jimmycarter; jimmyoupieceofshiite; nationaldisgrace; nitwitcarter; wastedpresidency; worthless; yassirsbuttboy
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To: potlatch


GENUINE NOBEL DOPE

281 posted on 11/11/2004 10:02:04 PM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY to 2008 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: Smartass

LOL, you ought to stick a peanut in those teeth!


282 posted on 11/11/2004 10:04:02 PM PST by potlatch (Under Construction.......)
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To: potlatch
Hah, I imagine, his dental bill surpasses your's and mine combined!
283 posted on 11/11/2004 10:11:26 PM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY to 2008 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: potlatch

284 posted on 11/11/2004 10:17:46 PM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY to 2008 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: Smartass

Jimmy Carter was and is the wrong man then and now for America.


285 posted on 11/11/2004 11:22:29 PM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

"How could we have ever elected such a naive goober President?"

I used to feel that way about Carter.

Looking back...I see how he has always been an enabler of evil, and chaos. Carter is an ex nuclear submarine officer...degree in nuclear engineering, he is far from dumb.

Now I loathe the man...despite his apparent onset of senility, I believe this man is evil, not just naive.


286 posted on 11/11/2004 11:32:58 PM PST by Dat Mon (clever tagline under construction)
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To: Saeder
YASSER ARAFAT ORDERED SIRHAN SIRHAN TO KILL ROBERT F. KENNEDY IN 1968 DUE TO HIS STRONG SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1967 WAR. LATER, WHEN THE U.S. REFUSED TO RELEASE SIRHAN, ARAFAT ORDERED THE BRUTAL SLAYINGS OF TWO U.S. DIPLOMATS IN KHARTOUM IN 1973.

ARE YOU GOING TO PREMIT YOUR GOVERNMENT TO SEND AN OFFICAL DIPLOMATIC DELEGATION TO THE FUNERAL OF A MAN WHO HAD A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND U.S. DIPLOMATS MURDERED???

SPEAK OUT NOW, BEFORE THIS OUTRAGE TAKES PLACE!!!

WHITE HOUSE: 202-456-1111
BUSH: president@whitehouse.gov
SPEAKER HASTERT: 202-225-2976
SECRETARY POWELL: 202-647-4000

287 posted on 11/11/2004 11:41:22 PM PST by montag813
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To: NJBushcountry

I keep all liberal leaders' statements in tha file!


288 posted on 11/12/2004 4:49:18 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (If you have anything, thank our Veterans.)
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To: Saeder

The time is rapidly approaching when I will have the same feelings about this idiot assuming ambient temperature that I currently feel about Arafat.


289 posted on 11/12/2004 5:28:23 AM PST by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: ashtanga

Here, here. They are treating this death like the death of any other dignitary. It makes me want to puke. I hope Arafat is enjoying the furnace.


290 posted on 11/12/2004 7:59:15 AM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Saeder
Jimmy Carter, the wimp who could give appeasement lessons to Neville Chamberlain! Its a tie between him and Willie (King Ahab) as to which is a worse disgrace to the South.
291 posted on 11/12/2004 9:34:13 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (tired of shucking and jiving)
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To: Saeder

So Jimmah thinks that Yessir Urafart is a "powerful human symbol"! By that standard so are Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Charles Manson.

As one very embarrased Georgian, I APOLIGIZE and would like to put a rag in this man's mouth! I don't know if that would keep him from putting his foot in his mouth.

Just one more thing makes me glad that I voted for Renaldus Magnus in 1980. ('84, too!)


292 posted on 11/14/2004 2:46:05 AM PST by VRWCRick
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