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Originally Posted by James
Isn't this being taken out of context? Didn't he mean, where is a Mandela to unify the Iraqi people? And basically there isn't one. He's dead because Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
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"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
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References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are seen as insensitive in South Africa.
"Rumors of my death have been sorely exaggerated..."
LOL