[Ohioan]

President Bush has issued a statement on "Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa," conveniently ignoring the fact that South African President Thabo Mbeki is a Marxist who has surrounded himself with followers of radical Islam.

Overlooked in this interesting posting, is the absurdity of President Bush's caption, itself. South Africa, under the previous Government was Democratic. The delusion that it was not, is the result of Leftist dogma that insisted that the South Africans and the various Bantu Nations, and other peoples within what had been the British Imperial borders, were "one nation." Anyone who cared to seriously study South African history and demographics understood that that was nonsense--one of the great lies concocted by the 20th Century Left.

William Flax

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Anyone who cared to seriously study South African history and demographics understood that that was nonsense--one of the great lies concocted by the 20th Century Left.

The white SA government was fighting the same battle as the Shah of Iran was fighting. yet, we let the leftist media portray both as suppressing a real democratic uprising while murdering thousands of innocents. We now see the outcome.

[Ironfocus]

I'm not sure I agree with your statement that South Africa was democratic. Essentially the homelands only had government-approved candidates, so that any vote there was of academic only. Outside of the homelands, blacks could not vote, and also had no say in governing the homelands, it was puppet governments installed by the whites.

Yes, there are many nations in South Africa, and the current solution is no better than apartheid.