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France's Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage
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Posted on 11/11/2004 3:48:15 AM PST by Happy2BMe

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To: Izzy Dunne

He's not "Getting better..."


21 posted on 11/11/2004 4:00:52 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Happy2BMe

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


22 posted on 11/11/2004 4:02:42 AM PST by MortMan (John Kerry - Lt. Clueless, Junior Grade)
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To: fsorbello

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


23 posted on 11/11/2004 4:06:31 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Happy2BMe

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


24 posted on 11/11/2004 4:06:40 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Happy2BMe

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?


25 posted on 11/11/2004 4:17:36 AM PST by Bob from De (John O'Neill and the Swiftvets - Integrity, Integrity, Integrity)
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To: Happy2BMe

Next to the French Leaders, he is heroic.


26 posted on 11/11/2004 4:19:57 AM PST by carlyaxt (carlyaxt)
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To: Happy2BMe
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.

27 posted on 11/11/2004 4:23:56 AM PST by meyer (Our greatest opponent is a candidate called Complacency.)
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To: Happy2BMe

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.


28 posted on 11/11/2004 4:30:12 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Happy2BMe

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.


29 posted on 11/11/2004 4:50:14 AM PST by blackdog (Can we possibly have just one more "Kidz-Bop"?)
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To: Happy2BMe

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.


30 posted on 11/11/2004 4:53:10 AM PST by BillyCrockett
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To: Happy2BMe
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.
31 posted on 11/11/2004 4:53:38 AM PST by Ginifer
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To: Happy2BMe
What was poor Jacques Chirac to do?

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

32 posted on 11/11/2004 4:54:02 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: meyer
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.

33 posted on 11/11/2004 4:55:45 AM PST by blackdog (Can we possibly have just one more "Kidz-Bop"?)
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To: Redleg Duke

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

LOL Post of the Day!

34 posted on 11/11/2004 5:03:39 AM PST by elli1 (''Crap! Arafat is dead and the French are still afraid of him!'' (Redleg Duke 11/11/04))
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To: Happy2BMe

"I know, Willie. We're all going to miss Yasser."
35 posted on 11/11/2004 5:23:08 AM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

LOL!!


36 posted on 11/11/2004 5:24:39 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (America's shining sun is Conservatism)
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To: Happy2BMe

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


37 posted on 11/11/2004 5:27:04 AM PST by Luke
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To: Happy2BMe

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.


38 posted on 11/11/2004 5:28:20 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: AmericanChef

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.


39 posted on 11/11/2004 5:35:53 AM PST by Carolinamom (I was hot on Rove before it was cool to be hot.)
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To: Happy2BMe

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


40 posted on 11/11/2004 5:57:06 AM PST by aardvark1 (Something was seared in my memory but I forgot what it was.)
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