Some fat-ass fascists on the right side of the internet have seized on Nelson Mandela's recent remarks about George W. Bush to spew their bile about how Mandela was a terrorist, murderer, etc. (No links; these cretins are not worth the effort, and I'm sure you know who they are.) Mandela was a terrorist like the American colonists were terrorists, and his opponents (at least the ones the cretins identify with) were the kind of worthless scum that populated the Confederacy. As for Mandela's alleged loss of mental capacity, I'd love to see those indolent dullards live 70 years in a racist police state and 26 years in the prisons of a racist government and retain one-tenth of Mandela's mental capacity at age 84.

Given the views Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney toward the apartheid regime, one could ask why Mandela was so charitable toward the current administration.