"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?" asks Mandela

[pynchonoid]

" [...] Another world figure to raise his voice
against the war today was the former president of
South Africa, Nelson Mandela. He called Mr Bush
arrogant and short-sighted - and implied he was racist
for ignoring the UN. 

Mr Mandela criticised Iraq for not cooperating fully
with the weapons inspectors - but urged the people of
the United States to join protests against Bush and
called on world leaders, especially those with vetoes
in the UN security council, to unite to oppose him. 

"One power with a president who has no foresight and
cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the
world into a holocaust," Mr Mandela said in a speech
to the International Women's Forum. 

"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?" he
asked. "All that (Mr Bush) wants is Iraqi oil," he
said. 

He accused Mr Bush and Mr Blair of undermining the UN
and its secretary-general, Kofi Annan, who is from
Ghana. 

"Is it because the secretary-general of the United
Nations is now a black man? They never did that when
secretary-generals were white," he said. 

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable
atrocities in the world, it is the United States of
America. They don't care for human beings. Who are
they now to pretend that they are the policemen of the
world, the ones that should decided for the people of
Iraq what should be done with their government and
their leadership?" [...]

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,885819,00.html>


-Doug

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