Bush Pronounces Mandela Dead (???)

[treg50]

He screws up the world one day at a time. Seriously, WHAT in the fuck?

[teggypimp95]

Says here that bush was wrong and he is alive and well?

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-21-voa23.cfm

[Hakkola]

I can't even watch this, there are supposed to be people who walk him through what to say at press conferences, yet he still manages to slip stupid shit in.

[Weapon_R]

Could have been a figurative statement

[dericer]

I'm usually the first to criticize Bush, but I actually understood what he meant. I never thought he was implying Mandella was dead. Just people like him.

[JRSC00LUDE]

^

Agreed, I felt that I understood the point he was making. Certainly could have done it better though.

[Ajay]

A more intelligent person would have found a way to say it more figuratively but wait...we're talking about G.W. Bush here. Intelligence and his name don't really go together.

[JAYMEZ]

Hrmmm , I understood what he was saying , ahh well.

[jdmXSI]

I dont think Bush is as stupid as he appears, anybody with that kinda money and power would never be that slow, Fuck up that many times and still be were he is at. Not by any means am i defending him but you shouldn't always belive what you see. There are always hidden agendas between the lines.

[treg50]

LOL trust me, I would never think that Bush would be the 1st person to factually break the news about something bigger than him and outside of American interests. I didn't for a second think anything had happened to NM, I just thought, "Haha, another big blunder."

Bush said
I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.

I didn't think this could be understood in another way and usually I can tell the difference. The only thing I understood from this is that Bush has a poor ability to think about what he's about to say. He is this slow, it doesn't need proving any more --- as a 'world leader' it's like he's never had an education in international politics. Bush is probably the most obvious 'puppet' to ever be put in place as a U.S. president.

It turns out Bush was actually trying to repeat what someone else had said:

During key testimony earlier this month, US Ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, told Congress that Saddam had created a "pervasive climate of fear" across Iraq.

"No Nelson Mandela existed to emerge on the national political scene, anyone with his leadership talents would not have survived," he said.

"A new Iraq had to be built almost literally from scratch and the builders in most cases were themselves reduced to their most basic identity, ethnic or sectarian."

See, now this I understand. Iraq has no one of Mandela-like influence or standing in their political scene, that's not difficult for normal people to say.

[ZorroAMG]

What's not to get about that comment? Sure he's an idiot and slow etc but that was pretty dumb of you to mistake as well...

[Neil4Speed]

Its kind of shock value at first because his pause between "Mandella is dead" and "Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

[mark4091]

I understood what he was getting at.

[jay42w8]

wtf is the op talking about...is HE that stupid?