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Home Front: Politix
Kerry Warns Arafat and Arab States ( not be a "nuisance".)
2004-10-12
The US Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry has warned that if he wins the Nov. 2 election there will be no reprieve for sidelined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The United States, like Israel, has refused to deal with Arafat, and Kerry entered the debate late Saturday by warning that if he won next month's election there would be no reprieve for the veteran Palestinian leader. "We have been at this for a long time. Mr. Arafat has proven his unwillingness and incapacity to be able to act as a legitimate partner in the peace process," Kerry said in a Florida campaign rally. Kerry also said his job as president, if elected, would be to "hold those Arab countries accountable that still support terrorists — Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Aqsa Brigades and others." The Democrat hopeful also praised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his "courageous" plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip next year.
(Sure you will John, just like on Iraq...)
Speaking two days after bombings at two Egyptian Red Sea resorts that killed at least 34 people, most of them Israelis, Kerry warned that the Jewish state was under attack. "People are trying to continue to create havoc... Israel remains under assault, kids blown up on buses, people sitting at restaurants, trying to live their lives," Kerry said. "I will not give one inch in our efforts to do that," he said.
Not quite what he said in the New York Times Magazine article on Sunday.
President George W. Bush has riled US allies in Europe and the Middle East by refusing to deal with Arafat, saying he had links to terrorism and could not be trusted to make peace. On Friday, in the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, Bush repeated his stern line on the Palestinian leader. "I wouldn't deal with Arafat because I felt like he had let the former president down and I don't think he's the kind of person that can lead toward a Palestinian state," Bush said.
Another flip-flop for Kerry.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#12  It all boils down to the same thing. Kerry is nuanced cause he don't want voters to know what he is, "lest they not vote for him", and he don't want the curvy knifeds to know cause he's yeller. Just like I said about the feller from Spain, the new prime minister, he is yeller too. He and Kerry are both yeller fellers. (But don't tell no one, cause they don't want no one to know.)
Posted by: Hank   2004-10-12 6:10:23 PM  

#11  Hank could be right, a nuanced lab/lib might be just the hombre to deal with the curvy knife guys, throw 'em off guard, steal their women, mess with their souls.

Movies Are Your Best Entertainment
Posted by: Shipman   2004-10-12 5:46:21 PM  

#10  Hank, you may be tongue in cheek, but you make it sound like Kerry being nuanced is part of a strategy for dealing with foreign policy. Isn't he nuanced because he does not want voters to know what he really believes, lest they not vote for him?
Posted by: Jake   2004-10-12 4:29:44 PM  

#9  Don't mis-judge Kerry. You'll see the man don't waiver if you look for all the nuances in his carefully chosen words. See if he's properly nuanced, the enemy can't figgure out what his position really is an he will always have the element of surprise. He is not ever bound down to a position or belief and this gives him flexibility.
Posted by: Hank   2004-10-12 3:43:30 PM  

#8  Yassir, you naughty boy! Tsk, tsk. You are such a nusiance!
- John F'ing Kerry
Posted by: BigEd   2004-10-12 11:02:30 AM  

#7  "'I wonder what he'll promise the Muslims to bring them back into the fold?' Two hundred eighty million hostages."

Thanks for putting it so well, Dave D.
That's one of the best comments I've read in quite a while.



Posted by: docob   2004-10-12 10:48:29 AM  

#6  "I wonder what he'll promise the Muslims to bring them back into the fold?"
That he'll convert to Islam as soon as he becomes president. The promise will be delivered in Arabic through an interpreter.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-10-12 6:57:36 AM  

#5  "I wonder what he'll promise the Muslims to bring them back into the fold?"

Two hundred eighty million hostages.
Posted by: Dave D.   2004-10-12 6:51:32 AM  

#4  Kerry must be assuming the Muslim vote is in the bag. Certainly they dislike Bush's actions enough that they already declared against him. However, if Kerry keeps this up, they're going to sit out the election. And, with the Jewish vote split, he needs those Muslim votes. I wonder what he'll promise the Muslims to bring them back into the fold?
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-10-12 6:37:38 AM  

#3  As we speak, Arafat is quaking in his boots over the Kerry statement!!
Posted by: smn   2004-10-12 5:05:20 AM  

#2  Kerry is going to be in trouble with Chiraq for going off the reservation like this. How unilateral.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-10-12 2:53:41 AM  

#1  Kerry hopes to fool some US Jews. He already has said US support for Israel is on the table.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-10-12 2:48:49 AM  

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