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MANDELA CONDEMNS US AND UK IN STRONGEST TERMS
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities
in the world, it is the United States of America."
"What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has
no foresight and who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge
the world into a holocaust.
Why does the US behave so arrogantly? Their friend Israel has got
weapons of mass destruction. But because it's their ally they won't
ask the UN to get rid of them."
"It is a tragedy what Bush is doing in Iraq. All he wants is Iraqi
oil. We must expose this as much as possible. He is making the
greatest mistake of his life by trying to cause carnage."
Nelson Mandela
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington -
1/31/2003:
Walter Cronkite some weeks back warned that the American President
was leading the planet toward World War III. John le Carre has
called the U.S. 'mad'. The list of credible and famous persons
speaking up in unprecedented ways is considerable in fact -- though
purposefully muted and muffled by government and corporate media
in the US. Some months back now, an extremely important article
written by a journalist working at the Carnegie Endowment of
International Peace in downtown Washington concluded that the U.S.
has become 'a great danger to itself, and to the world" -- but it
had to be published in the London Review of Books, not in the U.S.
where it is so vitally needed.
So let's be very clear and blunt about what's going on here. At
the top of the list are the U.S. and Israel (with other Anglo
countries -- the UK and Australia -- in tow) who are the real
culprits and dangers here. It is their policies these past decades
which have provoked the multiple crises of the present. And it
is their policies of the moment which threaten, in the words of
Nelson Mandela, a modern-day 'holocaust'. The occasional crafty
and soothing rhetoric from some quarters at times is worth little
when compared to the grossly dangerous acts, warmongering jargon,
and military preparations coming from these parties. And oh yes,
let's not forget that it is both the U.S. and Israel -- the two
parties who are armed to the teeth with all kinds of multiple weapons
of mass destruction -- who have quite publicly threatened to use
their vast quantities of sophisticated nuclear weapons on Arab and
Muslim countries.
MANDELA IN FURIOUS WARNING OVER IRAQ WAR By Mark Ellis, Foreign
Editor
Daily Mirror - UK - 31 January -- FURIOUS Nelson Mandela yesterday
charged President Bush with risking a holocaust for the sake of
Iraqi oil.
The Nobel prize winner and former South African president also said
Bush "cannot think properly", accused the US and Britain of
undermining
the UN and suggested they were racist.
Mr Mandela declared: "It is a tragedy what Bush is doing in Iraq.
All he wants is Iraqi oil. We must expose this as much as possible.
He is making the greatest mistake of his life by trying to cause
carnage."
He was equally damning about Tony Blair, sneering: "He is the foreign
minister of the United States. He is no longer Prime Minister of
Britain."
Mr Mandela's astonishing attack stung the Bush administration and
Downing Street.
A spokesman for Mr Bush - who will meet Mr Blair today - condemned
"people more comfortable about doing nothing than about a growing
menace".
Mr Mandela has repeatedly slammed Bush's stance over Iraq - but
never in such harsh terms.
He told a conference in Johannesburg: "What I am condemning is that
one power, with a president who has no foresight and who cannot
think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
"Why does the US behave so arrogantly? Their friend Israel has got
weapons of mass destruction. But because it's their ally they won't
ask the UN to get rid of them."
The US has said it will, if necessary, strike Saddam Hussein without
UN support if Iraq does not disarm weapons of mass destruction.
Britain is expected to join in.
Mr Mandela suggested the two leaders would not be treating the UN
with such contempt if the organization had a white leader.
He said: ''Both Bush and Tony Blair are undermining an idea (the
UN) sponsored by their predecessors.
"Is this because the Secretary General (Kofi Annan, from Ghana) is
now a black man? They never did that when Secretary Generals were
white...
"Are they saying this is a lesson that you should follow. Or are
they saying we are special, what we do should not be done by anyone?''
Mr Mandela said he would support without reservation any action
against Iraq agreed by the UN. But action without that support was
unacceptable and set a bad precedent.
The world statesman went on to launch a withering attack on America's
human rights record.
Referring to the US wartime atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, he said: "Because they decided to kill innocent people in
Japan, who are they now to pretend they're the policeman of the
world?
"lf there is a country which has committed unspeakable atrocities,
it is the US...they don't care for human beings.''
He went on to appeal to the American people to vote Mr Bush out of
office and protest at his policies.
Washington, which was needled by South Africa's close ties with
Libya and Cuba during Mandela's presidency, hit back.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "The president understands
there are going to be people who are more comfortable doing nothing
about a growing menace that could turn into a holocaust.'' Mr Blair
will ask Mr Bush today to delay a strike on Saddam until he gets
fresh UN backing.
He said as he flew to the US: "I don't think it's a question of
pushing the Americans to do something they don't want to do.
"We have a strategy that lays down clear demands on Saddam to disarm.
If he breaches it, we have further discussions and a new resolution
issues."
Mr Blair and Mr Bush are expected to finalist an invasion timetable
at their Camp David council of war today.
They could agree to give UN weapons inspectors a few more weeks to
see if Saddam wants to disarm. If not, strikes will be launched at
the start of March. Mr Bush has been given a five-page memorandum
outlining the key risks of attacking Iraq.
The risks include the use of WMD and Saddam blowing up oil wells.
US Defence chief Donald Rumsfeld said: "If he uses WMD anybody
connected with that will wish they hadn't been."
Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani also claimed last night the
US wanted to attack Iraq to secure oil supplies, as the Mirror
revealed last week.
He told Newsnight: "The Americans want to eliminate any dependence
on Saudi and Gulf oil. So the best thing to do is occupy Iraq."
MANDELA: U.S. WANTS HOLOCAUST
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN - 31 January) --Former South African
president Nelson Mandela has slammed the U.S. stance on Iraq, saying
that "one power with a president who has no foresight, who cannot
think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
Speaking at the International Women's Forum, Mandela said "if there
is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world,
it is the United States of America."
Mandela said U.S. President George W. Bush covets the oil in Iraq
"because Iraq produces 64 percent of the oil in the world. What
Bush wants is to get hold of that oil." In fact Iraq contributes
to only 5 percent of world oil exports.
The Bush administration is threatening military action if Iraq does
not account for weapons of mass destruction and fully cooperate
with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Receiving applause for his comments, Mandela said Bush and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair are "undermining" past work of the United
Nations.
"They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United
Nations is now a black man?" said Mandela, referring to Kofi Annan,
who is from Ghana.
Blair is expected to discuss the issue of Iraq when he meets with
South African President Thabo Mbeki in London Saturday, a day after
the British leader's meeting with Bush.
Mandela said he would support without reservation any action agreed
upon by the United Nations against Iraq, which Bush and Blair say
has weapons of mass destruction and is a sponsor of terror groups,
including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Nobel Peace Laureate Mandela, 84, has spoken out many times against
Bush's stance, and South Africa's close ties with Libya and Cuba
irked Washington during Mandela's own presidency.
In reaction to Mandela's comments, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said Bush was grateful to the many European leaders who "obviously
think differently."
"The president will understand there are going to be people who are
more comfortable doing nothing about a growing menace that could
turn into a holocaust. He respects people who differ with him. He
will do what he thinks is right and necessary to protect our country,"
Fleischer said.
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Wise men study the unknown, and boldly seeks answers !
Others... fall on their hands and knees, and start mumbling...
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