Dick's Blunder! South Africa

One wonder's what was in the mind of Cheney when he voted against sanctions against South Africa! I do not think he is a racist, but he is a true ideolog. While in congress he could have voted many times against the Racist State. His responces with regard this issue have been interesting! The answer most given is that he had to do it because at the time the ANC was on the State Department's terrioist list. The problem, is that argument could be said for Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance yet they were not put on the State Departments list. And yet we also put sanctions on Afghanistan. The truth if it be told, is that the true terroist, like in Afhanistan, was the Aparthied state! If any one should have been put on the terroist list, it should have been the South African State! Nelson Mandela would be like the Northern Alliance. I hope Dick looses much sleep, over this historical blunder! No rationalising will explain that away. Dick you were on the wrong side of history! I do think that Cheney has made up for the error, by liberasting Iraq. Maybe some where in his mind, he remmbered being on the wrong side of history.

This a posting of an actual account from a site, where an Cheney answer's question's
relating to this event!

I read where Dick Cheney was not supportive of the ANC and Nelson Mandela who served 27 years in prison. I am an African American. I feel uncomfortable with Dick Cheney.


What are your thoughts about Dick Cheney?



On ABC's ``This Week,'' Cheney defended his 1986 vote against a resolution that called for U.S. recognition of the African National Congress in South Africa, freedom for the organization's then-imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela and negotiations with the black majority.


``The ANC was then viewed as a terrorist organization,'' Cheney said Sunday. ``It was a step that we simply weren't prepared to take.''


Now, Cheney says he believes the ANC has ``mellowed'' and Mandela is ``a great man.''


``He deserves an enormous amount of credit for the transformation of South Africa,'' Cheney said ``But I don't have any problems at all with the vote I cast 20 years ago.''