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| Middle East |
| Powell: 'Yasser Who?' |
| 2002-07-01 |
| The United States will "work hard" to help Palestinians establish their own state, but they must first overhaul their leadership, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. The president "is going to work hard for a state for the Palestinian people so that they can live side by side in peace with the Jewish state, Israel," Powell told Fox News Sunday. "But it begins with new leadership that is fighting against terror, not tolerating terror or even encouraging terror." He's talking about whatsisname, the guy that sez he's leading the Paleostinians... Now what was his name? Powell noted that, while US officials still talk to "a variety of Palestinian leaders," they have had no conversations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat since Bush delivered the speech on Monday. "At the moment, we are not dealing with him," Powell said, adding that he does not expect Washington to deal with Arafat in the future, either, "because his leadership is flawed." Are you sure that was his name? It doesn't seem to ring any bells... Powell said that US officials "worked very hard for 18 months to try to get this peace process started, ... and at every step, it was thwarted by violence and terror, and Chairman Arafat simply did not provide the kind of leadership necessary to move forward." Well, shucks. There are different kinds of leadership in this great wide world. And his was... different. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |