Posted on 04/01/2002 8:35:41 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Sheesh, even the lame Dane post shows the President draws the line at specifically calling Arafat a terrorist, doesn't it? Or can't you read 'plane' (sic) English?
You can continue to be deceived if you like.
Bin-Laudin: Organized training camps to train terrorists.
Arafat: Controls central education system indoctrinating and training children(kindergarden through high school) on hating, attaching, and killing Jews!
Bin-Laudin:Head leader of Al-Queda, a known terrorist organization
Arafat:Head leader of Hamass, a known terrorist organization.
Bin-Laudin:Like to kill by blowing up buildings and killing civilians.
Arafat:Likes to kill by blowing up buildings and killing civilians.
Bin-Laudin:Uses sworn Al-Queda followers to do his bidding
Arafat: Uses sworn Hamass member to do his bidding
Bin-Laudin:Hates Americans for supporting Jews!
Arafat:Hates Jews for being Jews!
Bin-Laudin:Fanatic Arab
Arafat:Fanatic Arab
Bin-Laudin:Master mind of blowing up of buildings and 1 battleship
Arafat:Mastermind of Munich Olympic killings, 1970's aircraft highjacking and blowing up of planes, the Infada, and suicide bombings.
Bin-Laudin:Twists teachings of Islam to extremist degrees to brainwash bombers.
Arafat:Twists teachings of Islam to extremist degrees to brainwahs bombers.
No matter how you cut it, Arafat is a terrorist, and it is becoming more and more appearent, (much to my great disappointment) that Bush talks out of both sides of his face!
By the way, do YOU think the Palestine Liberation Organization, Fatah, alAqsa, all headed by Yasser Arafat, are terrorist? And that by extension, Arafat is also a terrorist? What are your thoughts? Perhaps you don't think they are.
By the way, American citizens have in fact been killed in the blasts in Israel committed by suicide bombers in case you had not noticed.
And I also agree with Dave that the problems in the Middle East require a little bit more finesse that calling in air strikes. If Arafat is exiled to Morocco, there may be an opportunity to get things calmed down.
And, if a connection to al Qaeda is found in all those documents that the Iraelis removed from Arafat's headquarters, then we have proof, rather than supposition, and can proceed accordingly.
By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (April 1, 2002 12:26 p.m. EST) - President Bush appealed Monday for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to order a halt to the suicide bomb attacks in Israel and the West Bank. "Suicide bombers in the name of religion is simple terror," Bush said.
But the president stopped short of applying to Arafat his oft-repeated statements that those who harbor terrorists are terrorists. He said the Palestinian leader is excepted because of his past efforts to negotiate peace.
You got it right AIT.
Click here.
And you it looks like will still deceive. BTW, the ignorance of Israeli politics is astounding. Sharon has a coalition government with the very left Peres and here is a link that puts the situation going on now into perspective.
March 30, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wanted to "expel" Yasser Arafat from the West Bank, but agreed on a compromise to "isolate" him as an "enemy" after a revolt in his Cabinet and strong objections of Israeli military and security brass.
*We need to prosecute a war on terror, but can't attack everywhere at once.
*We want to go after Saddam next, and need some bases to do this. Therefore, we can't alienate the Arabs whose bases we need.
*We need to try to keep this Israel-Pale problem off the table until we are ready.
THIS MAY BE WHAT HE IS THINKING, but it is dangerously wrong. We are going to alienate many of the Arab states sooner or later. Better we find out NOW who is really on our side against terrorism. Would we lose them all? I don't know. Most of them, but perhaps one or two would see that their own internal terrorists are a threat to THEM as much as to us.
Only force will solve this situation. That force must come from Israel, supported (unleashed, really) by the U.S.
You are exactly right that Bush is ignoring his own standard for "harboring terrorists." Arafat IS a terrorist, and should be killed, pure and simple. It WILL hurt us in the "war on terror" elsewhere unless we deal with this viper's nest.
Aw, come on! I read some Japanese High School textbooks, and these people are too educated for media spin. I mean:
The Rape of Nanking never happened
The US dropped the Atomic Bomb with no provocation whatsoever
Australian, British, and New Zealand prisoners during WW II were never brutally tortured to death
See.
Presidents cant be as loose with their language as you and I. Everyone with any intelligence knows Arafat is a terrorist. It does no one any good for the President to come out and say that Arafat is covered by his statement about protecting terrorists if it means that it forces the US to get militarily involved in Arab/Israeli problems or to prevent the US from using its offices to try to reach a settlement.
I gather your solution is to firebomb all the cities on the West Bank, drive any survivors into Jordan, and then plant millions of landmines on the West Bank to prevent any return.
Take a look at reply #31, even some in the present coalition Israeli govt. don't want Arafat to be named a "terrorist".
The only thing I'm advocating is truthfullness. If I'd wanted a liar in the White House I'd have voted for Clinton Lite, aka Algore.
And no, I don't advocate any of the things you suggested I did. Care to tell me how you interpreted my desire for plain-speaking to mean all of that?
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