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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.


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KEYWORDS: appeasor; arafat; badsymbolofgeorgia; barf; cartermalaise; dictatorbuttnuzzler; embarassment; jimmycarter; jimmyoupieceofshiite; nationaldisgrace; nitwitcarter; wastedpresidency; worthless; yassirsbuttboy
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
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201 posted on 11/11/2004 12:04:17 PM PST by SJackson ( Bush is as free as a bird, He is only accountable to history and God, Ra'anan Gissin)
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To: Squantos
Damn shame ole Peanut-Head can't feel all of the love around here!!!

; < )

202 posted on 11/11/2004 12:04:43 PM PST by Eaker ("He's the kind of guy who would fight a rattlesnake and give the snake a two-bite head start.")
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To: Saeder
an embarrassment to america,if it wasn't so wrong i would ,ahh i will say it.the sooner he joins Arafat the better
203 posted on 11/11/2004 12:09:11 PM PST by rang1995
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To: mattdono

He is definitely a pile of crap. No arguement there. Actually I liked the way you expressed it, but I have a vivid imagination and well, I was eating when I saw that pile :)


204 posted on 11/11/2004 12:09:20 PM PST by rjmeagle (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag for Which It Stands, One Nation UNDER GOD!!!)
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To: Saeder

This doesn't surprise me at all, but I never thought pat buchanan would be close to tears and saying the same BS about Arafat. Perhaps they can go to the funeral together.


205 posted on 11/11/2004 12:10:25 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Saeder

Carter needs a brain transplant. If Satan exists, he must be rubbing his hands and grinning from ear to ear as he listens to all the "leaders" praise this heinous terrorist and probable Sodomite. Jimmah Carter is indeed the soul of the Demo Rat Party, a "symbol of ignorance" beyond belief. So when will we hear the media ask questions about the cause of YA's death? Didn't he have all the indications of AIDS? The media is handling YA's cause of death as if he were a good Demo Rat. Hush hush boys, we don't want to embarass a Nobel Prize in Terrorism recipient.


206 posted on 11/11/2004 12:10:33 PM PST by foofoopowder
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To: rjmeagle

Yeah, well, sorry about that FRiend.


207 posted on 11/11/2004 12:11:57 PM PST by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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To: doug from upland

Carter was way worse than Clinton. Although, Clinton was responsible for sending Carter over to meet with Kim Jong Il....that went great....for North Korea. Both are dispicable, but Carter was a complete Failure....Clinton did accomplish some good.


208 posted on 11/11/2004 12:12:52 PM PST by Feiny (Scream if you love silence.)
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To: Saeder
Well, maybe he was a "powerful human symbol" BUT NOT IN THE GOOD SENSE OF THE TERM!!!

Gotta love Jimmy Carter...not!

209 posted on 11/11/2004 12:15:31 PM PST by housewife101
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To: Saeder
Jimmy, the leader of the Unholy Alliance:

________________________________________________________

Unholy Alliance

by David Horowitz
Hardcover - (September 2004) - $27.95

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies.

210 posted on 11/11/2004 12:15:31 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Squantos

For close to 3 decades the Islamofascists in charge of the Islamodumbos in the Middle East have had Jimmy Carter as their best ally in America.


211 posted on 11/11/2004 12:17:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Saeder; Happy2BMe; PhilDragoo; devolve

Carter is such a nut case. He's irrelevant.

http://originaldo.com/Jimmy-Carter-Rat-Pack.jpg


212 posted on 11/11/2004 12:19:53 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Saeder

Dhimmi Carter truly wins the Mule's Rear Cup for asininity!

http://orsa.blogspot.com/2004/11/dhimmi-carter-cant-be-worthless-enough.html


213 posted on 11/11/2004 12:30:53 PM PST by .cnI redruM (Hail To The Victors. GOP Volunteers Won Election 2K4!)
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To: Josh in PA

Why doesn't he just put a sock in it. Arafat was a vicious terrorist who died of AIDS.


214 posted on 11/11/2004 12:48:17 PM PST by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: Saeder

Proving once again that the peanuts were brighter than the farmer...


215 posted on 11/11/2004 12:49:53 PM PST by Tamzee (The Odyssey... "By their own follies they perished, the fools.")
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To: Saeder
Former US President Jimmy Carter called Yasser Arafat "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Palestinians in their pursuit of a homeland.

The same could be said of Adolph Hitler. Both hated Jews as well. Arafat's uncle even helped Adolph to arrive at the "final" solution and eliminate the Jews versus letting them emmigrate.

216 posted on 11/11/2004 12:55:05 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: Saeder

UNBELIEVEABLE.


217 posted on 11/11/2004 1:24:28 PM PST by veronica (Savor the victory!)
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To: Saeder
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Yeah, you're a powerful human symbol too, Jimma!

218 posted on 11/11/2004 1:33:50 PM PST by WalterSkinner
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To: Saeder

Nice to see that absolutely nothing is happening in the world. Otherwise why would anybody waste time talking about Jimmy Carter and Arafat?

RamS


219 posted on 11/11/2004 1:37:26 PM PST by RamingtonStall (Ride Hard and far! ..... and with GPS, Know where you are!)
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To: Josh in PA

I agree with you, the peanut farmer was the worst president in our history. Even the traitor xlinton was better.


220 posted on 11/11/2004 1:38:42 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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