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.
And what he says is totally disgusting.
I was very young in 1976.
Would somebody please tell me how the hell Carter was ever elected President?
True, I think it was 24 times.
Watergate.
Jummy, he was a f'n murderer. Remember Munich?
God, I can't believe Georgia produced this idiot with no common sense. No way. It's not our fault and we don't claim him.
yeah, a powerful symbol of human excrement..
Carter calls Arafat " A Powerful human symbol"
Nixon has much to answer for.
Nixon took the Republicans down with him when he resigned in discrace following the Watergate scandal. This is the only reason Carter was elected. The country thought that an apparently honest, good-ol boy from the South would cleanse the Republic's honor. Little did the country know that Carter was actually a naive, inept, Leftist fool (which, by the way, he still is).
I well remember the state the Western world was in before The Great Ronald Reagan got things as they should be.
Both Carter and Arafat are Nobel peace prize laureates.
Guess that shows us what the PRIZE is worth ..SH*T
Worse US president in my opinion..Hands down..He handles the Iran affair soooo well..Thats what started all this terrorist crap in the first place..Done get me started on Carter..it's too late at night and I'll NEVER sleep of I start in on that commie moron
He needs to be boiled an salted.......
Or at least permanently enshrined in the Hall of Leftist Idiots. Hundreds of years from now, people will be asking the question: "How could we have ever elected such a naive goober President?"
I know.........heres a grin for ya !
George and Osama decided to settle the war once and for all. They sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one big dog fight. They agreed that they would have five years to breed the best fighting dogs in the world and whose ever dog won would be entitled to dominate the world.
Osama and his dog handler Mohammed found the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers in the world, then bred them with the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves they could find. From the litters, they selected the biggest and strongest puppy and trained it day and night to fight to the death. After five years, Osama and Mohammed came up with the biggest, meanest dog the world had ever seen. Its cage needed steel bars that were five inches thick and nobody could get near it.
When the day came for the dog fight, George and his dog handler Boudreaux showed up with a nine-foot-long Dachshund. It was the strangest looking dog anyone had ever seen. Boudreaux said it was a Cajun Dachshund.
Everyone felt sorry for George and Boudreaux because they knew there was no way that this poor excuse for a dog could possibly last 10 seconds with Osama's big, mean animal.
When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund slowly came out of its cage, wagged its tail, then waddled over towards Osama's dog. The Doberman/Rottweiler/Wolf snarled and leaped out of its cage, then charged the poor Dachshund. But when it got close enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened its mouth and ate Osama's dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the snarling beast.
Osama came up to George and Boudreaux shaking his head in disbelief. "We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for five years with the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers, and the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves in the world. How did you do this?
"Da's easy," said Boudreaux the Cajun. "We 'ad our bess plasic surgins workin' fo' five year for to make dat alligator look like a weenie dog."
Stay safe !
Heh heh. Reminds me of that old story, where Granny jumps out of an airplane with a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun, and a bunch of knives. When she lands in the middle of town, she proceeds to shoot, stab, and beat on everybody in sight. When asked what the morale of the story is, you are told: "You don't mess with Granny when she's been drinking!"
Carter lives in a 'world of his own', Never never land or the Land of Oz or somesuch place.
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