Death will be his witness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1347430,00.html
Bush's hand will be forced at home by Chief Justice Rehnquist's
illness and abroad by Arafat's departure
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday November 10, 2004
The Guardian
It is ghoulish, but two deaths - one at home, the other abroad - are
about to reveal the true face of George Bush's second term. The first
is the slow death played out in Paris. Yasser Arafat has lingered on
the brink for so long, the president delivered a eulogy a full week
ago - albeit by accident. At Bush's first post-election press
conference, a reporter broke the premature news that the Palestinian
leader had died. "My first reaction is, God bless his soul," said a
grim-faced president, in the manner of a hanging judge sending a
convicted man to the gallows: May the Lord have mercy upon your soul.
About the man, he added not a word more.
Jonathan Freedland
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Arafat
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Rehnquist
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