Mandela Praises Friend And Thug Mugabe

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:57 pm

Mandela is the man with his back towards us? The other guy is really black who is he and is he a good friend or what? Its an old photo, could have been a cousin?

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:20 pm

Look at the date of the speech, 1997 before Mugabe made clear what he was. Ten years before that Dick Cheney was shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein as one of the West's allies encouraging him in his war against Iran, why don't you reproduce that photograph?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ ... ney29.html

Not too long before that Reagan was calling Mandela a terrorist, how things change. News archives are wonderful you can remind politicians about the change in policy they would like you to forget.