Comments on: Watching Yasser

By: Dishman

Dishman — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:53:24 +0000

Khomeini’s departure was a fine piece of work. He ‘fell ill’ in mid-February of ‘89. I believe IRNA finally reported he was having kidney problems in mid-March. Finally, on June 2, after months of … feeling pretty much like he’d made the rest of Iran feel… he succumbed to general organ failure.

I’ve watched others choose to die. Normally, it’s a lot more pleasant, like a heart attack immediately after setting their affairs in order.

Mike_N… are you implying Arafat had some “personal involvement” with the young boys sent to blow themselves up in Israel?

By: RogerA

RogerA — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:09:53 +0000

PeterUK: precisely, Sir. This is all part of a cosmic beautification scheme. As I recall some 25 years ago the moslem world was encapsulated by the west as a contest between Ayatollah Kohmeini and Yassir Arafat, about who could out-ugly the other. The moving hand, having writ, writes again and the world will be more attractive.

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:29:54 +0000

Amazing the things you see when you haven’t got a Stinger missile handy, eh Roger?

In the time left to him on this earth Arafat has gone to see his nearest and dearest,he has gone to visit his money in Europe.

It is hard to believe we will see his lower lip,quivering like a piece of raw liver amidst the sparse stubble of his disreputable beard,no more.The world will have lost a truly ugly man.

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:54:46 +0000

Roger:

We at the Pentagon have called Ms. Amanpour the Angel of Death. Whenever she appears many people die. Perhaps this appearance will lead to social good.

By: frick

frick — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:36:00 +0000

I generally think it is bad ju-ju, or whatever you want to call it, to wish ill on another. Even people with whom I heartily disagree. It just doesn’t seem like the sort of thing one human being should do to another.

But there is a category of persons whose demise I think it is ok, and maybe even obligatory, to root for. Arafat is one of the top names on that list. I wish him all that he deserves, and then some. He sure did earn it.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:10:57 +0000

After he is dead they should dissect his liver and read the auguries.

Why wait?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:45:56 +0000

“Who knows what that will bring? ”

Let’s hope it’s the certain death of Palestinian terrorists and all the anti-Israel Palestinians who tolerate the terrorists in their midst.

Stack them up like cordwood and call it an early New Year’s present.

Faster, please.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:36:51 +0000

Please make that “martyr” billionaire above. My fingers must have found the expression too ridiculous to type correctly.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:34:18 +0000

“cynic” on the “Martyrdom” thread linked to an article that said:

“If Kerry wins, and Arafat gets out of his compound and travels abroad, as he is about to, Arafat would be in a perfect position to bring himself back to power,” a security official told WorldNetDaily.

True. And the calculus is smart on the flip side, as well. Were Bush to win, mount an offensive in Fallujah and suddenly strike at Iran’s nuke development sites directly or allow Israel to do so, would Arafat want to be sitting in Ramallah in the path of Iranian counter-strikes at Israel or as a target of Israeli “defense” measures?

The timing of Arafat’s acute illness is remarkable, coming on the eve of the US Presidential election. Also, perhaps the matyr billionaire has some banking business to do in Europe, as our counter terrorist money policy noose might tighten in a second Bush term.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:26:44 +0000

Roger:

You took the words right out of my mouth. as it were.

Strange times indeed.