Posted on 11/19/2004 5:06:15 PM PST by Kitten Festival
As I watched the French and Egyptian military honor guards escort the body of the Egyptian, Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, better known as Yasser Arafat, back to his Cairo funeral and Ramallah burial, I was saddened at the reverence given to such a merciless, depraved monster and murderer.
Many European and Arab nations muttered about the low level minimal diplomatic delegation sent by the United States to the funeral. The question should really be why the United States sent any diplomatic delegation at all to the funeral of this despotic thug. Perhaps we should also send the minimum political delegation to the funerals of Saddam and bin Laden.
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