Posted on 11/12/2004 9:11:56 AM PST by frog_jerk_2004
For the last week of his life, the scuttlebutt about the Palestinian movement's centrifugal force concerned whether his impending demise was driven by AIDS, likely contracted, according to leaked foreign-intelligence reports, by his omnivorous, orgiastic sexual appetite. This as if, after three quarters of a century's worth of megalo-sadism, additional indicia of Yasser Arafat's throbbing depravity were somehow necessary. And so, evidently, they were. Thus is reflection on his life, a signal emblem of the late 20th century's triumph of terror and fraud over security and reason, as instructive about our times as it is about him.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Jimmuh said he was one of the world's greatest statesmen. Chirac said "I bowed before this great leader...".
Ten years fom now they'll be heaping the same adulation on Bin Laden as a great leader and champion of peace. Of course there will always be that little terrorist phase that he went through, but everyone's got a few skeletons in the old coat room. He just happens to have more than most of us.
Excellent article. This is a very comprehensive biography of a horrid, evil man. It's truly sickening to hear the accolades recently heaped upon this monster.
This is by far the best article about Arafat. It hit everything on the head including Arafat's double game.
While he swells up with worms; we can all be glad he is gone! Sure did his momma proud.
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