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Mandela takes the low road
Toronto Sun ^ | February 1, 2003 | (editorial page)

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.


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1 posted on 02/01/2003 11:21:25 AM PST by Clive
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2 posted on 02/01/2003 11:22:00 AM PST by Clive
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3 posted on 02/01/2003 11:22:24 AM PST by Clive
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To: Clive
He's a senile old communist.
4 posted on 02/01/2003 11:24:50 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Clive
I think he's lost most of his audience with this one. The lefties will love it, but I doubt that it will go much further than that. In fact the media may hesitate to push it for fear that such stupid and pointless remarks will simply render Mandela irrelevant.
5 posted on 02/01/2003 11:34:05 AM PST by Cicero
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6 posted on 02/01/2003 11:35:32 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: Cicero
bump The Lefty news media certainly does a fine job of protecting one of their own in this regard.
7 posted on 02/01/2003 11:41:23 AM PST by junta
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To: Clive
Mandela takes the low road

has he ever been on any other road?
8 posted on 02/01/2003 11:52:01 AM PST by Bobby777
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To: Clive
New bumper sticker:

Put Nellie Back in the Slam.
9 posted on 02/01/2003 11:54:38 AM PST by 2Fro
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To: Clive
The world rightly honoured Mandela when he was freed from jail...

In retrospect, both "freeing" then "honouring" Mandela was and still is arguable.

10 posted on 02/01/2003 12:00:32 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: lonestar; Mo1; hoosierpearl; Bahbah; Maigrey
Thought you might like this editorial. Mandela is an old fool. He should keep his thoughts to himself.
11 posted on 02/01/2003 12:00:38 PM PST by Wphile (I'm so sick of the UN)
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To: Wphile
Mandela is a grown man and is responsible for his own words

Words that I won't forget any time soon

He not only slammed the President, but Mandela slammed the whole country and everyone that lives here ..
12 posted on 02/01/2003 12:08:40 PM PST by Mo1 (I Hate The Party of Bill Clinton)
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To: Mo1
I agree. Convenient how he forgot to realize that without the United States, he would never have been freed. And his use of the race card against President Bush proves to me that he is, indeed, the racist.
14 posted on 02/01/2003 12:12:23 PM PST by Wphile (I'm so sick of the UN)
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To: Clive
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."

Who writes this guy's speeches? I'm serious. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not letting this guy off the hook. But with Mandela being nearly 80 we can fairly safely dismiss the idea that he alone writes his speeches. It would be very interesting, and eye opening, to see who his script writers are...and what goes on behind the scenes both before and after these speeches.

15 posted on 02/01/2003 12:12:31 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it, but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Clive
Mandela was nothing more than a terrorist elevated to sainthood by the leftist media.

He will always be nothing more than a low life terrorist to me!

16 posted on 02/01/2003 12:21:22 PM PST by OldFriend (SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH)
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To: Clive
Gee. Who'd 'a guessed we'd get this rot from such a pillar of the international Marxist, anti-Western far Left? Oh. I guess the press never really identified his politics, did they?
17 posted on 02/01/2003 12:31:26 PM PST by pabianice
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To: OldFriend
Bingo!! This senile ole bastard has the "convictions" of a terrorist, both morally and legally. He was a terrorist & was Convicted of the same. His "peaceful" solutions to his problems were bombing innocent folks on buses. He will always be viewed by me as scum deserving nothing but a "lead pill" for his reward. I don't think he ever refused American dollars for his well off population. Typical euro-trash, all take, no give.
18 posted on 02/01/2003 12:38:31 PM PST by Fighter@heart
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To: Clive
"the United States of America ... They don't care for human beings."

How appropriate this remark is in light of this:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833996/posts
19 posted on 02/01/2003 12:41:47 PM PST by M. Peach (Eschew obsfucation)
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To: Fighter@heart
Mandela is just an old terrorist who was let out of his cage, so that he might be used by the leftists. His wife, Winnie, was no better.
20 posted on 02/01/2003 1:07:37 PM PST by tessalu
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