Top Bush aides won't deal with 'flawed' Arafat

Washington Times ^ | 7/01/02 | Joyce Howard Price

[kattracks]

President Bush's top foreign policy advisers said yesterday that Yasser Arafat already has lost his last chance to be regarded by the administration as a credible participant in Middle East peace negotiations.

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said she doubts the administration will hold any high-level meetings with the Palestinian leader and that the United States would cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority should he be re-elected in January.

[Nitro]

This guy Arafat-ass is like a bad pizza...

he is greasy, limp and way too late!!

[Crossbow Eel]

yes !

[LS]

I have to hand it to Powell: the statements I saw over the weekend were VERY tough, no nonsense to the extent that Arafat is a dead rat and that any Pale who wants power must SHOW he can control terror. Of course, we know that they can't do that, and I think, perhaps, that has been Bush's strategy all along.