Nelson Mandela speaks out

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: AaronP
they should lock his ass back up

Elaborate.

 

[Whitecloak]

well, he certainly didnt pull any of his puches.

 

[sandorski]

I'm sick of the Saddam = Hitler mantra. He isn't even close. If Hitler had Saddam's record, we wouldn't even know who he was.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: EngineNr9
So you see this as a racial question?
Well, that element is there. In fact, many people say quietly, but they don?t have the courage to stand up and say publicly, that when there were white secretary generals you didn?t find this question of the United States and Britain going out of the United Nations. But now that you?ve had black secretary generals like Boutros Boutros Ghali, like Kofi Annan, they do not respect the United Nations. They have contempt for it. This is not my view, but that is what is being said by many people.

Yes, keep laughing...

Oh, and I haven't heard this before, Dick Cheney was one of the few people in Congress who opposed releasing Mandela from prison.

Only if you consider being one of 177 in a vote of 245-177 "one of the few".

 

[Pocatello]

I admire Mandela for his struggle for freedom, but his friends include Muammar Qaddafi, Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro. All either ruthless dictators or terrorists.

 

[shiner]

Is this the same Nelson Mandela who's wife have the "Mandela Football Club" kill those who spoke out against her husband?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: Desslok
Czar you need to come out of your liberal dream world. "...a chance for Iraq to build itself up..." Are you on crack? Hussain would never let that happen. It would threaten his power base. This guy is a nothing short of a modern day Hitler. Who do you think an embargo would hurt? Sure the hell not Saddam.

Sure why not, the food for oil program was a very good efford to help but too bad it went all bad because of lack of support from the UN.
About the embargo, I agree, it hurts everyone there but Saddam and his friends, thats why the embargo must end if there is going to be an improvement there.

desslok is correct... if a non-gov't controlled civil-society happened in iraq saddam would be out. look at what happened with solidarnosk in poland... basically the first instance of civil society forced the polish govt's hand in the early 80s, then when the threat of russian tanks was removed poland was the first eastern bloc state to have a democratic transition of power.

as for the embargo, its not our fault saddam buys weapons instead of food and medicine.