[DeSoya]

I'm not really sure we can get rid of Arafat, and I certainly don't think that assassinating him would be the best thing. The U.S. government sounds all surprised about him not doing anything about terrorism. We've known for years that he has supported groups with links to terrorism.

This was posted by Neb but seems to be the general consensus: Palestine should be allowed to be a free state.... If they get a proper leader instead of Arafat.

Problem is that Arafat was elected in a democratic fashion. Unlike our president.

Here's a quote from a column in todays paper:

But as often happens in such cases, Bush most likely convinced himself, too. That's why he didn't see how odd it looks for him to demand that the Palestinians get rid of Yasser Arafat. Arafat got 88 percent of the vote in an election in which 80 percent of the voters turned out. The election was monitored by international observers, among them Jimmy Carter, who found fewer irregularities than later turned up in Florida. New elections were supposed to have been held in January 1999 but have been delayed by repeated crises and are now scheduled for next January.

Here's a link to the rest of the column. BTW it's by Molly Ivans.

http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/opini...234695,00.html

DeSoya