Condi Rice committed the gravest diplomatic sin of ignoring Arafat's grave:

Unlike a long line of other leaders who paid some kind of homage to Arafat's grave at the entrance to the Mukata, when visiting PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Rice's car simply pulled into the compound, passed the grave and Rice got out and walked into the building.

On the way out, she also made no acknowledgment of the grave, unlike other leaders, like EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana who laid a wreath or British Prime Minister Tony Blair who walked by and nodded.

History will record that the major (in fact only) contribution that Yasser Arafat ever made to peace in the Middle East was shuffling off this mortal coil. He didn't do it willingly, of course, but still, credit where credit's due.

Good for her. The more we ignore and refuse to honor that terrorist, the faster the people he ripped off and leached off of for years will realize that times have changed, and that if they plla ball, their situation will improve.

She's not physiologically equipped to give the appropriate hydraulic tribute. At least, not without sitting down.

It would be great if someone pressed her on this and she replied that she'd lay a wreath on Arafats grave after she lays one on Bull Connor's.

Alan,
close but I think more along another type tribute to the murdering bastard. Unfortunately, she's too much of a lady to hike up her skirt in public and deposit the correct "fertilizer" to his flowers.

OH MY GOD, he killed EVERYBODY, the BASTARD!!!!