America stood by and behind Nelson Mandela ??

[eablair3]

I mean there has been a lot of garbage in the Gropinator's speech, but how could he say with a straight face that American stood by Nelson Mandela?

he's ignorant or a liar -- probably both.

[Fenris]

1. Don't tell that to Dick Cheney.

[Cats Against Frist]

2. The whole thing is a bunch of sniveling, revisionist hoke

I am aghast.

[Eloriel]

3. I'm tellin' ya

I about lost my dinner on that line, and a few others that came with it. Unbelievable appropriation of liberal values as if they were their own.

I've said before: they HAVE to lie about us and lie about themselves (they've got nothing else), and appropriating liberal values (lip service only, of course) is just another one of those lies.

[eablair3]

9. agreed

good to see your posts Eloriel

[Fridays Child]

4. The fact is that...

...99.99% of the people who heard him say that thought to themselves, "...Uh, okay. Cool. We stood behind Nelson Whassisname..." or some facsimile thereof.

[eablair3]

6. agreed, but

i agree that not too many are going to know of the true facts relating to American "support" of Nelson Mandela, but you'd think that someone in the media would call them on this ... and explain the truth.

I guess that's asking too much.

[Tight_rope]

5. Yeah...They stood by and let those racist jail him for 27 years!

[eablair3]

7. In case any don't know -- here's a run down on it

they not only stood by ... they were crucial in putting him in jail)

How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela
to prison for 28 years
by William Blum


When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, President George Bush personally telephoned the black South African leader to tell him that all Americans were "rejoicing at your release". This was the same Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for almost 28 years because the CIA tipped off South African authorities as to where they could find him. This was the same George Bush who was once the head of the CIA and who for eight years was second in power of an administration whose CIA and National Security Agency collaborated closely with the South African intelligence service, providing information about Mandela's African National Congress.{1} The ANC, like all left-leaning nationalistic movements, was perceived by Washington as being part of the infamous (albeit mythical) International Communist Conspiracy.

On August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela had been on the run for 17 months when armed police at a roadblock flagged down his car outside Howick, Natal. How the police came to be there was not publicly explained. In late July 1986, however, stories appeared in three South African newspapers (picked up shortly thereafter by the London press and, in part, by CBS-TV) which shed considerable light on the question. The stories told of how a CIA officer, Donald C. Rickard by name, under cover as a consular official in Durban, had tipped off the Special Branch that Mr. Mandela would be disguised as a chauffeur in a car headed for Durban. This was information Rickard had obtained through an informer in the ANC.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/CIAMandela_WBlum.html



However, in Ahnold's world == this is America standing behind Nelson Mandela.

[Disturbed]

8. Neo Fascists re-write history...

all the time. It is the way that they brainwash the ingorant.

I feel another Civil War coming on.

[eablair3]

10. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Franken's title is really appropriate tonight.

[MisterP]

11. thank God that mess of steroids, botox, and cheap tanning lotion is out of

the state!
He can't visit many EU nations due to legal hormone-level restrictions in beef coming into the countries...