Mandela: Senile?
It's sad to see someone such as Mandela go this route. After spending so much of his life in jail while fighting for the rights of his countrymen, you would think he'd have a little more foresight then he demonstrates. To even claim that the U.S. wants a holocaust is beyond the pale. It's an insult to Americans. And even worse, it's an insult to every individual that went through the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.
He even demonstrates his ignorance of the situation with the misstatement of basic facts:
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.
59 point error, I say that's a bit more then a gaffe.
He also suggests that the lack of US and British support was because Kofi Annan is black. Give me a break. At this rate he'll start claiming that the United States supported South African apharteid.
Of course, not everyone is against the US on this one.
Posted by Chris Short at January 30, 2003 01:24 PM
