Where have all the Mandelas gone? or Why I need to Become a Registered Voter
September 22nd, 2007
Excerpt from news story on Herald Sun Sunday (www.news.com.au)
In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible to find a leader who could unite the country.
“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’,” he said.
“Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
See full story here.
‘Course I got to take care of the whole becoming a citizen thing, but, in these dire times, I think it’s worth it.
Funny how when I did a google search I could barely find any articles by US news outlets calling him out on this madness. NPR buried it in the second-to-last paragraph and didn’t even bother to correct the misconception.
That’s it. Looks like it’s up to me to save this country from itself.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Could it be also that there are some Mandelas in the 2 million refugees who left the country because it’s so screwed up?
WMD, mission accomplished, the surge is working. The entire administration reads like a chapter from Orwell, replete with an invisible war and doublespeak.
On a sidenote: On Bill Maher the other night, they interviewed the author of “Dead Certain,” the new Bush biography. It was reported that, on becoming elected Texas governor, Bush said he “wouldn’t give anything to the blacks” because they didn’t vote for him.