Taken from CNN Report @
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/30/sprj.irq.mandela/index.html"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."
This imbecile sounds like 90% of those on these boards, too busy making up drivel to get the facts right.
IMHO Mandella best count his blessings, because it is going to be the US that ends up bailing SA out of the current decline they have encountered since he took power. He seems to very easily forget that it is the US that put his scrawny bellybutton into power. Let the little ingrate suffice on his crumbling foreign trade for a bit, cut off all US foreign aid to them too. If he wants we can show him just how horrible we truly are. Ohh, don 't fool yourselves, Mandela is not the reason apartheid ended, he's a figure head. The US public outcry is the reason apartheid ended. Our public got tired of seeing that b.s. going on every day on our nightly news. Its sad, but true.