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Thread ID: 4708 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-01-30
2003-01-30 20:03 | User Profile
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/30/sprj.irq.mandela/index.html]http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/30/...dela/index.html[/url]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela has slammed the U.S. stance on Iraq, saying that "one power with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
Speaking at the International Women's Forum, Mandela said "if there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America."
Mandela said U.S. President George W. Bush covets the oil in Iraq "because Iraq produces 64 percent of the oil in the world. What Bush wants is to get hold of that oil." In fact Iraq contributes to only 5 percent of world oil exports.
The Bush administration is threatening military action if Iraq does not account for weapons of mass destruction and fully cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Receiving applause for his comments, Mandela said Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are "undermining" past work of the United Nations.
"They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man?" said Mandela, referring to Kofi Annan, who is from Ghana.
Blair is expected to discuss the issue of Iraq when he meets with South African President Thabo Mbeki in London Saturday, a day after the British leader's meeting with Bush.
Mandela said he would support without reservation any action agreed upon by the United Nations against Iraq, which Bush and Blair say has weapons of mass destruction and is a sponsor of terror groups, including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. (Full story)
Nobel Peace Laureate Mandela, 84, has spoken out many times against Bush's stance, and South Africa's close ties with Libya and Cuba irked Washington during Mandela's own presidency.
In reaction to Mandela's comments, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush was grateful to the many European leaders who "obviously think differently."
"The president will understand there are going to be people who are more comfortable doing nothing about a growing menace that could turn into a holocaust. He respects people who differ with him. He will do what he thinks is right and necessary to protect our country," Fleischer said.
2003-01-31 00:34 | User Profile
Ah yes, that gentle, conciliatory Affakin statesman St. Nelson Mandela....with rants like that, the old commie terrorist reveals himself to be nothing more than what every other professional nigra is: a blusterin' fool whose only claim to fame is his ability to stir his fellow monkeys up.
2003-01-31 01:09 | User Profile
Every time I think my posts are skirting beyond the pale, the General shows up to take me to school.
BTW, your 'Jumanji' letter to VNN nearly had me blacking out from a laughing fit.
2003-01-31 03:19 | User Profile
St Nelson has been there before, this is from a few months ago: "No country, however powerful it may be, is entitled to act outside the UN. When UN secretaries-general were white we never had the question of any country ignoring the United Nations, but now that we have got black secretaries-general like Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan certain countries that believe in white supremacy are ignoring the UN for racist reasons."
And this is what Egyptian Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali looks like: [url=http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/Boutros_Bo_m472443.jpg]http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/storie..._Bo_m472443.jpg[/url]
2003-02-01 07:33 | User Profile
Originally posted by il ragno@Jan 31 2003, 01:09 ** Every time I think my posts are skirting beyond the pale, the General shows up to take me to school.
BTW, your 'Jumanji' letter to VNN nearly had me blacking out from a laughing fit. **
Ah, thank you, my friend. Coming from a man with such a great gift for the written word, that's praise indeed.
2003-02-02 21:35 | User Profile
Mandela said "if there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
I beg to differ. There is more than enough said about the atrocities of the US, Germany and the White man. What is never spoken of in polite society, churches, universities or the press is the atrocities of the Jew and negro.