JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/wl_nm/safrica_mandela_bush_dc_1
Notice how the media declares this an "embarrassing gaffe" as if no other possibility could account for this mistake? Couldn't it also be a Freudian slip or wishful thinking upon the President's part? After all, Nelson Mandela was a dirty lousy communist:
http://www.realnews247.com/how_to_be_a_good_communist.htm
2007-09-22 09:38:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Mandela belongs back in a jail cell. The media paints his as some kind of savior. Disgusting!
2007-09-22 09:48:24 · update #1
Nelson and Winnie are nothing less than terrorists. Ask them about their special 'tire necklace' eh? Nobel Peace Prize my ****....
Who gives a frick what Bush said....those two outta be rotting in prison. Canada had it right, they forbade Winnie from entering their country.
2007-09-22 09:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mustardseed 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
These are the words President Bush said. It was no gaff. It was a statement that Hussein had killed anyone who opposed him politically. The gaff is on the part of the media.
2007-09-22 09:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by Locutus1of1 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
i assume you're nevertheless working this. Like before Bush won't be the main articulate speaker however the remark is out of context. i've got faith his element replaced into on the time there are not any leaders the everyday of a guy or woman like Nelson Mandela, that theory is lifeless. yet please proceed via fact a lot of human beings can dispute it. he's not an entire fool yet perchance some who examine partial fees and purely headlines would be. thank you back.
2016-10-19 10:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was saying that Saddam has already killed all of the Mandela type of people in Iraq.
Saddam did do this. Anyone he deemed a threat to his rule was exterminated, usually painfully.
I can't believe I am defending GW but the truths the truth and in this case GW is right.....eeew. LOL!
2007-09-22 09:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly B 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well, I mean the guy kind of looks like a corpse. Maybe a Freudian slip of a different kind?
2007-09-22 10:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
After futher review of the evidence it is obvious that libs "pick and choose" what they want it to say Check out the quote by Hillary about Gahndi working at a gas station
2007-09-22 09:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Do people seriously not understand what Bush was saying? And people call him simple. He never said that Nelson Mandela was actually dead. He said any potential Mandela like person would have been killed by Saddam. Not complicated........
2007-09-22 09:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by Brian 7 · 10⤊ 2⤋
This was just a verbal mistake
Nelson and Winnie are freedom fighters, who helped free their country. Even if he was a communist how does that compare to the idea that the government of South Africa treated Blacks like dirt. Better a communist who wants equality then people from Free Countries like ours who wish to support institutional racism, you should be ashamed of yourself
2007-09-22 10:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As always with the Liberal News Media: "much ado about nothing".
2007-09-22 09:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by wolf 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A gaffe but clearly in his mind.
2007-09-22 09:56:02 · answer #10 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋