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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. maj 2004 / Time Line May 10, 2004
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Mandela on the war in Iraq
By Kurt Singer
Today, May 10th 2004, ten years after Nelson Mandela, 85, was sworn
in as the first black president of the Republic of South Africa,
the ailing leader addresses both houses of parliament. He spoke
about the American and British war in Iraq to both houses of
parliament.He mentioned the international uproar over the horror
photographs of tortured Iraqi prisoners.
"We see how powerful countries-all of them socalled democracies
manipulate multilateral bodies to the great disadvantage of the
suffering and poorer developing nations. in a war that the United
Nations did not sanction."Mandela has been an outspoken advesary of
President George W. Bush's war politics and called him openly "a
president who cannot think properly".
Mandela's speech received wild applause and was hardly mentioned by
the US press and television .
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