[a_Turk]

>> a leader whom the Catholic newspaper La Croix compared to Nelson Mandela.

I watched Mr. Mandela on TV suggesting that Mr. Bush was unable to think. His sophisticated South African audience was tickled.

Mr. Mandela is also a critic of Turkey. He is critical of Turkey's war on terror.

Was he ever considered a terrorist, or was he more like a Ghandi?

[Shermy]

Whatever he was, he flipped on the War on Terror. Came out like a statesman first. Then started taking speaking fees from Gulf states. He's been bought out. Now takes an elitist Western European attitude.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Mandela's critics and political opponents would find themselves with a tire forced over them and then being lit on fire. "Necklacing" it was called.

[nopardons]

He was and still IS a bloody terrorist ! Nelson is also a stinking COMMIE, who LOVES all other stinking COMMIES.