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Harry Hope
Guest
What, you didn't hear?
At a press conference last week George W. Bush answered a question
about the need for leadership in Iraq, and temporarily stunned the
world by announcing the death of South Africa's most famous son.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bush-mandela
I thought an interesting comment was made - somebody said to me, I
heard somebody say, "Now, where's Mandela?"
Well, Mandela's dead.
According to Dana Milbank, who was in attendance, "There was a gasp in
the White House briefing room at this news."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002290.html?hpid=topnews
But don't panic folks, Nelson Mandela isn't really dead.
Our Great Leader was merely trying to make one of them durn
metamaphors.
He continued:
....because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
Yes, if only Saddam Hussein hadn't killed all the Mandelas.
But then, maybe if Poppy Bush hadn't told the Shiites to rise up
against Saddam Hussein in 1991, and then refused to protect them while
they were slaughtered, there would be a few more Mandelas to go
around.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10874-2003Apr11?language=printer
And what's so great about Nelson Mandela anyway?
After all, when our current vice president Mr. Dick Cheney was but a
humble congressman in 1986, he regarded Mandela as a terrorist
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45c/210.html and voted against a
House resolution calling for his release.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/30/clinton.cheney/index.html
In fact, it's odd that Bush and friends don't still regard Mandela as
a terrorist, given that he's been known to go around saying things
like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2710181.stm
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised US
President George W Bush over Iraq, saying the sole reason for a
possible US-led attack would be to gain control of Iraqi oil.
(snip)
Nelson Mandela called Mr Bush "a president who can't think properly
and wants to plunge the world into holocaust".
He said war "would be devastating not just to Iraq but also to the
whole of the Middle East and to other countries of the world".
Hmph.
If you ask me George W. Bush should be thanking Saddam Hussein for
killing all those pesky Mandelas.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
At a press conference last week George W. Bush answered a question
about the need for leadership in Iraq, and temporarily stunned the
world by announcing the death of South Africa's most famous son.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bush-mandela
I thought an interesting comment was made - somebody said to me, I
heard somebody say, "Now, where's Mandela?"
Well, Mandela's dead.
According to Dana Milbank, who was in attendance, "There was a gasp in
the White House briefing room at this news."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002290.html?hpid=topnews
But don't panic folks, Nelson Mandela isn't really dead.
Our Great Leader was merely trying to make one of them durn
metamaphors.
He continued:
....because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
Yes, if only Saddam Hussein hadn't killed all the Mandelas.
But then, maybe if Poppy Bush hadn't told the Shiites to rise up
against Saddam Hussein in 1991, and then refused to protect them while
they were slaughtered, there would be a few more Mandelas to go
around.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10874-2003Apr11?language=printer
And what's so great about Nelson Mandela anyway?
After all, when our current vice president Mr. Dick Cheney was but a
humble congressman in 1986, he regarded Mandela as a terrorist
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45c/210.html and voted against a
House resolution calling for his release.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/30/clinton.cheney/index.html
In fact, it's odd that Bush and friends don't still regard Mandela as
a terrorist, given that he's been known to go around saying things
like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2710181.stm
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised US
President George W Bush over Iraq, saying the sole reason for a
possible US-led attack would be to gain control of Iraqi oil.
(snip)
Nelson Mandela called Mr Bush "a president who can't think properly
and wants to plunge the world into holocaust".
He said war "would be devastating not just to Iraq but also to the
whole of the Middle East and to other countries of the world".
Hmph.
If you ask me George W. Bush should be thanking Saddam Hussein for
killing all those pesky Mandelas.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
