Green Witch wrote:Now only 364 days until we don't have to be embarrassed by quotes like this:
"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
And I see your Pavlovian response mechanism is working perfectly.
Lets look at the whole comment, not just one line...
Quote:Part of the reason why there is not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein's brutal rule. I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where's Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas. He was a brutal tyrant that divided people up and split families, and people are recovering from this. So there's a psychological recovery that is taking place. And it's hard work for them. And I understand it's hard work for them. Having said that, I'm not going the give them a pass when it comes to the central government's reconciliation efforts
It is obvious to anyone with a brain that he was using Mandela as a metaphor.
Mandela stood up to the brutal, evil regime in South Africa.
Bush is trying, albeit poorly, to say that the people that did stand up to Saddam, the people who would have been the Mandela's of Iraq, were already dead, having been killed by Saddam.
There is already enough to criticize Bush for, you dont need to make things up.
Unless of course, you arent smart enough to recognize a metaphor.
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