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Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a Threat to World Peace
Newsweek.com ^
| 9/10/02
| Interview conducted by Tom Masland
Posted on 09/10/2002 4:05:41 PM PDT by GeneD
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To: MassMinuteman
Mass..LOL!! Great line!!
" Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the worlds most respected statesman. This is the most pathetic sentence I have ever read. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with Newsweek. Not even if it had Masland on the cover."
and
GO PATS!
To: thathamiltonwoman
And to think it was Americans who protested and pressured and ultimately got Mandela released. Have you noticed that you can never give his type enough? They always want more and more and more, and then bite the hand that feeds them.
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To: GeneD
The Snooseweek interview is improperly headlined - the headline should read "NELSON MANDELA IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE."
Mandela is out of the same cloth as Arafat and Bin Laden - each a terrorist in his own right, each willing that others should die for their cause, and each too cowardly to put their own life on the line.
They are each equally a threat to world peace, each from the far left of Facism (Nazism) and Communism, and each get their jollies by promoting ethnic division.
Bin Laden was born into wealth, and Mandela and Arafat have amassed well hidden wealth - each claim to be on the side of their respective ethnic havenots.
Any who want to add to the analogy are invited to do so.
To: GeneD
Eff Yu, Nelson!
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posted on
09/10/2002 5:57:07 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
To: GeneD
Too bad the socialist Mandela isn't still rotting in prison; the world would be a far better place. South Africa was sure a better place back then.....
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posted on
09/10/2002 6:01:28 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: GeneD
So it is the 'ol white-black thing.....sheesh. Israel is white and the Iraqis are black (inferred)?? But Colon Powell is ok...he's black. LOL!! Thought they were all semites (Israelis and Iraqis)...oh well. Ain't the first time commies refused to let the truth get in the way.
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posted on
09/10/2002 6:03:44 PM PDT
by
griffin
To: Conservative til I die
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posted on
09/10/2002 6:38:49 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
To: LarryLied
Remember when he came out early for Bush and the WOT, then was "corrected" by others back home? Definitely bought out by Islamist money - a very good buy on their part. However, his propaganda is old-commie stuff that is way out of date. Back in the USSR!
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posted on
09/10/2002 6:48:48 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: The PeteMan
I enjoyed watching Kordell trip over his skirt last night... GO PATS!
To: GeneD
shut up, prag!
To: The PeteMan
GO PATS GO!
(who knows we might even win it again!)
To: tet68
"Unqualified support of the Shah of Iran led directly to the Islamic revolution of 1979." No, we told him to go. The Islamics took over later.
And he quotes Scott Ritter!!!
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09/10/2002 7:00:18 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Ok, HoustonCurmudgeon. What happened during that year? How were your political views recieved? Give up the details.
To: GeneD
And what a great country South Africa turned into after Mandela took over (sarcasm)
To: GeneD
Hey Nelson...................F off.
To: GeneD
He spent 28 years in Solitary. Me thinks his mind goes to mush occasionally. He never was an America lover as I recall.
To: SteelTrap
Ok, HoustonCurmudgeon. What happened during that year? How were your political views recieved? Give up the details.I had one of the best years of my life getting to see much of sub-Sahara Africa and I loved the place. If you could ignore the politics, South Africa is the finest place I have ever been outside the United States (God Bless her) and Switzerland. As to the politics it was the late 80's and Mandela was out of prison but still under house arrest, so things were very calm. I asked a lot of questions but tried to keep my mouth shut about my positions. I dont think Americans should try to push their ideas while a guest in a foreign country.
I did get to meet several members of the Afrikaner (Boers) government, some high ranking Zulus from Natal, and one night I had dinner with the man running for President (English) on the liberal party ticket. I have neither the words nor the typing skills to explain all I think and remember about these fine people so I will list only a few:
1) Americans had no idea what they were doing with sanctions.
2) I always thought the Zulus would kill Mandela who is a prince of the Xoshas and a mortal enemy of the Zulu tribe.
3)I once asked my Zulu housekeeper how she would determine how to vote if she ever won the right to do so. Her answer showed me how very wrong we are to push democracy on people who have no understanding, or appreciation of the concept. She said oh I would have no problem doing the right thing I would just vote how my chief told me to.
4) I never believed the Afrikaners would give the county over to the majority. Unlike Rhodesia where the whites were only 3% they were more than 30% in South Africa. The problem was that half the whites (English speakers) really thought they could work with the majority.
5) The REAL PROBLEM was that the ruling class was white. They ran the place far better than ANY black tribe runs whatever African country they are in. They had been there 400 years, as long as we have been here and most of the black tribes came to the area AFTER the whites. If the very same government had been black no one would have cared!
6) One Afrikaner told me we would not have a problem if we had done to the blacks what you did to the Indians.
To: The Ghost of Richard Nixon
Not exactly an extreme statement on your part since
even Walter Williams himself said, while subbing for
Limbaugh once, that many black South Africans acutally
preferred living under apartheid since job opportunities
were much better.
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