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Article: Bush praises African Communists.(Insider Report)(George W. Bush speech)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- August 11, 2003
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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, ...