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In his July 8th speech at Goree Island, Senegal, President George W. Bush made this incredible statement: "African peoples are now writing your own story of liberty..Africans have overcome the arrogance of colonial powers, overturned the cruelties of apartheid, and made it clear that dictatorship is not the future of any nation on this continent." Informed listeners must have been dumbfounded by Bush's remarks. Dictatorship, slaughter, cruelty, and genocide are rampant throughout Africa today, on a scale dwarfing the worst periods of the colonial epoch. The president's speech continued: "In the process, Africa has produced heroes of liberation--leaders like Mandela, Senghor, Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Selassie and Sadat."
Nelson Mandela, of course, has been elevated to Savior of Africa status through a decades-long media campaign. But the president must be aware that Mandela was a Communist terrorist and that his ruling African National Congress continues as a Communist, pro-terrorist organization. All but one of the other African gods mentioned in the Bush pantheon were as bad, or worse. Leopold Senghor, a vice-president of the Socialist International and president of Senegal 1960-1981, embraced the Soviet Union and Red China. Kwame Nkrumah was a trained-in-America Communist professor who returned to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bush praises African Communists.(Insider Report)(George W. Bush...