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In 1986, Nelson Mandela -- the former president of South Africa who died Thursday at the age of 95 -- was serving the 23rd year of what would ultimately be a 27-year prison sentence. The Western world was finally acknowledging the true horrors of Apartheid, a system of racial segregation that denied basic rights to blacks -- including citizenship and the right to vote -- and brutally oppressed a generation of South Africans fighting for equality.
In the U.S. Congress, lawmakers were ready to show their opposition to the South African regime with the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, a bill that called for tough sanctions and travel restrictions on the nation and its leaders, and for the repeal of apartheid laws and release of political prisoners like Mandela, then leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
The measure passed with bipartisan support, despite strong and largely Republican opposition. President Ronald Reagan was among those most opposed to the bill, and when he finally vetoed the measure over its support of the ANC, which he maintained was a "terrorist organization," it took another vote by Congress to override it. Among the Republicans who repeatedly voted against the measure was future Vice President Dick Cheney, then a Republican congressman from Wyoming.
Cheney's staunch resistance to the Anti-Apartheid Act arose as an issue during his future campaigns on the presidential ticket, but the Wyoming Republican has never said he regretted voting the way he did. In fact, in 2000, he maintained that he'd made the right decision.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/dick-cheney-nelson-mandela-terrorist_n_4394071.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037
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In case you ever thought he was a reasonable person.
brush
(53,792 posts)He wanted to keep Mandela locked up. Hah!
His war criminal ass should've been locked up long ago. Bet he wouldn't be strong enough to survive a year not even close to the 27 Mandela did.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)You don't have to
Believe He worships Satan...watch the video. It's true. They cremate care.
merrily
(45,251 posts)People who seek to change the status quo never seem to be popular with the 1% then benefiting handsomely from the status quo.
Can't imagine why.
In my book and in the book of many in the US and abroad, Cheney is one of the biggest terrorists ever.
ETA: nothing in this post should be taken to mean that anything about Darth Cheney is now, or ever was, handsome.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Sounds like a classic case of projection.
3Why do you see the speck in your neighbors eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your neighbor, Let me take the speck out of your eye, while the log is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbors eye.
~Nelson Mandela upon leaving prison after 27 years of confinement
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. -- Buddha
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)"The bottom line, however, is that the mistakes of the Iran-contra affair were just that - mistakes in judgment, and nothing more. There was no constitutional crisis, no systematic disrespect for ''the rule of law,'' no grand conspiracy, and no Administration-wide dishonesty or coverup. In fact, the evidence will not support any of the more hysterical conclusions the committees' report tries to reach."
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/20-years-after-iran-contra-cheney-defends
I know that bag of shit isn't in this but...
His defense of the program shows what a psychopath he is.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)....I'm afraid he can't get a conscience transplant.
What a nasty little human being that man is.
polichick
(37,152 posts)I hope they don't know who got it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Cheney is not only a lying, cruel, bloodthirsty, Neo-Con Chickenhawk, he is also at his core a intolerant racist.