"America is a bunch of lousy racist imperialist warmongers!"
"Awww, yeah, we gonna kill us some white folks now, right Mugabe?"
Posted on 02/01/2003 11:21:25 AM PST by Clive
Actually, it's Nelson Mandela who "cannot think properly." His attack on U.S. President George Bush this week at a women's conference in Johannesburg was bizarre and illogical.
To suggest Bush is trying to undermine the United Nations in dealing with Iraq because UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is black - essentially alleging Bush is a racist - is absurd.
This silly allegation will no doubt come as a surprise to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell - Bush's point man on Iraq - and his National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. Far from undermining the UN, Bush is trying to restore its credibility by making Security Council resolutions mean something, since Saddam Hussein has thumbed his nose at them for 12 years.
After playing the race card, Mandela attacked the U.S. for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, "because they decided to kill innocent people in Japan ... who are they now to pretend they are the policeman of the world ... If there is a country which has committed unspeakable atrocities, it is the United States of America ... They don't care for human beings."
Mandela knows why the U.S. bombed Japan - to end a war that would otherwise have cost countless more lives. That this should come from Mandela, who once advocated violence and terrorism in order to end the greater evil of apartheid in South Africa - which is why he was never recognized as a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International during his 27-year incarceration - is lunacy. Nor should Mandela's long-time friendship with dictators and facilitators of terrorism such as Libya's Moammar Khaddafy, Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Palestinian Authority's Yasser Arafat - be forgotten now.
The world rightly honoured Mandela when he was freed from jail, forgave his white oppressors and worked tirelessly as South Africa's president to turn it into a multi-racial state. But to mock Bush - who is acting out of conviction as the result of a terrorist attack on his country - as someone "who cannot think properly" and wants to "plunge the world into a holocaust" shows that, at 84, Mandela clearly needs a rest.
"Awww, yeah, we gonna kill us some white folks now, right Mugabe?"
...But when it comes to Nelson Mandela and his actual words, they suddenly have a baaad case of Alzheimers and 'hear and see no evil.'
This hypocritical creep slanders a good President and a country who'd saved his worthless @ss, yet behold -- Mandela is soooo "principled" he can also be seen here holding hands with two murderous thugs.
What the saying? "Birds of a feather...."
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