Clinton Behind Mandela's Bush Bashing?

NewsMax.com ^ | 01 Feb. 2003 | Staff Writer

[txradioguy]

Questions are swirling about the role ex-President Clinton may have played in encouraging one-time international human rights icon Nelson Mandela's acid attack on President Bush Thursday, where the former South African president accused his friend's successor of having an impaired intellect and being a racist.

In some of the strongest criticism ever leveled against a sitting U.S. president by any foreign leader, Mandela told the International Women's Forum in Johannesburg that Bush is "a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, (and) is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."

Complaining about Bush's plan to attack Iraq with or without final approval from the United Nations, Mandela went so far as to imply that the U.S. leader is a racist. "Is (Bush's contingency plan to go it alone) because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man?" asked Mandela, referring to Kofi Annan, who is from Ghana.

A little more than four months before Mandela launched his attack on Bush, Mr. Clinton traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to announce a joint partnership with Mandela to battle AIDS. The two are also involved in AIDS concerts planned for February and June to take place in New York and South Africa.

And in July 2002, the two ex-presidents teamed up at the International AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain. When Clinton embraced Mandela from the stage and declared that the battle against AIDS must be won, "wild cheers" erupted from the audience, the Associated Press said.

But more recently, Clinton and Mandela have joined together to fight the Bush administration's plan to attack Iraq.

On Jan. 7, the wire service Africa News reported:

"South African Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University have been joined by 75 Rhodes Scholars from 16 other countries to form an international lobby group opposing war against Iraq.

"The group, Rhodes Scholars Against the War (RSAW), is meeting representatives of various governments to push for diplomacy rather than a military confrontation with Iraq. They.... will meet former president Nelson Mandela, who has voiced opposition to the war. They are also scheduled to hold talks with former United States president Bill Clinton and with the American Ambassador in London at the end of January."

[txradioguy]

I thought I smelled the head RATS fingerprints on this.

[Mr. Mojo]

If this is true, Klintoon's envy/jealousy of Bush appears to be driving him a bit mad.

[hope]

It's not too hard to see that the leftist rats and the terrorist are running with the same talking points.

[Jorge]

Questions are swirling about the role ex-President Clinton may have played in encouraging one-time international human rights icon Nelson Mandela's acid attack on President Bush Thursday, where the former South African president accused his friend's successor of having an impaired intellect and being a racist.

If this is true, then Mandela is a fool who has now reduced his reputation to that of Clinton's...a man who has no integrity and compromised the world's security like no other American President.
After these disgraceful comments, Mandela can never be taken seriously again.

[RnMomof7]

Someone refresh my memory ..wasn't it Mandela's "movement " that used tire " necklaces" on their enemies and set them on fire? I believe such terriorism is why he went to jail in the first place..so now they are going to make him a "peace " and "non violent" icon???

[Mo1]

Clinton may be behind it .. but the fact is Mandela is a grown man and he is responsible for his own words

Mandela not only took a slap at Bush .. he also took a slap at America and everyone that lives here

Something I won't forget any time soon

[woofie]

Having watched Clinton for 8 long years I dont doubt this...Mandela seemed way over the top

[Consort]

Are Mandela and Clinton the first Black Presidents of their respective countries?

[Reagan Man]

Nelson Mandela's remarks can be explained easily. Mandela is a commie pinko and an anti white racist. The fact that Bill Clinton might have stirred the passions of a mentally deranged old coot, says much about the immoral agenda of der schlickmeister.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jimmah Carter gave Mandela a few pointers on some anti-Bush rhetoric himself.

Carter-Mandela-Clinton, three first class losers!

[txradioguy]

Yeah he DOES seem to have forgotten what country was most responsible for getting him OUT of prison. Despite what Phil GONEahue was ranting about tonite.

[Stew Padasso]

"Clinton Behind Mandela's Bush Bashing?"

I need to learn photoshop.

[tessalu]

Mandela is just a simple fool, and no other excuse is needed.

[tessalu]

Mandela is just a simple fool, and no other excuse is needed.

[free from tyranny]

As the drip, drip, drip of GW's eventual torrent of war tortures GW's political enemies, the more they desperate they become.

Hey NELSON! You never deserved to be freed from prison! But then again maybe you are discovering that you never were freed.

Everyone gets what coming to them !

[tessalu]

Mandela is just a simple fool, and no other excuse is needed.

[Mo1]

Well he sure didn't have a problem coming over here to get americans to donation their american dollars to help his causes and his country .. now did he ..

[txradioguy]

yeah it's amazing how he bashed us AFTER he got his welfare handout from us.

[cyborg]

Can you refresh my memory and tell me why he was in prison in the first place? What sets Mandela apart from other people who may have been unjustly imprisoned during apartheid? I am sure there were other people who did nothing at all and because of the racial situation were in jail. How about people like Mark Mathabane that grew up in South Africa under apartheid but made something of himself?

I guess I'm ignorant but I believe South Africa is worse off than ever before. Perhaps if things were done differently? I dunno. Apartheid was bad but I think Mandela didn't do such a good job. His wife was a terrorist that I know.

[noutopia]

You got that spot on,both ClinToon and Mandela are both socialist pigs.Hope they both burn in hell.