I thought this was somewhat interesting, and I hope you might as well. When the fucking idiot boy-king screwed up his lines the other day, I knew that he did not just come up with up himself. So, I did some checking on Lexis and found that the talking-point has a probably not too unique lineage.
This diary traces it.
We begin with the monkey-who-sometimes-walks-on-two-feet:
You know, part of the reason why there is not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein's brutal rule.
I thought an interesting comment was made somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, 'Now, where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas. He was a brutal tyrant that divided people up and split families.
And people are recovering from this. So there's the psychological recovery that is taking place.
And it's hard work for them. And I understand it's hard work for them.
Another Bush Crime Family member, the Republican Party Presidential candidate for 2012, David Petraeus, mentioned the same talking-point in an interview with Charlie Rose six days before President Dip-shit:
CHARLIE ROSE: And do you think the Shias, the Shiites who have the power and the numbers, are prepared to give it to them, to allow them to have it?
DAVID PETRAEUS: It`s going to be tough. It`s going to be hard. I mean, it`s really .
CHARLIE ROSE: And that`s the issue, though.
DAVID PETRAEUS: It is really difficult. It is. It is. There is no question about it. I mean, when you have been really put down, mistreated -- I mean, that`s why Ambassador Crocker laid out some of the history of recent decades, so that people truly do understand what has happened to this society.
As he pointed out, there is no Nelson Mandela in Iraq. If there had been, Saddam would have killed him a long time ago. And so, this is going to have to -- they are going to have to come back together.
Now, security is hugely important. Because if you have on a day when there is a massive car bomb gone off in Baghdad, I can assure you those conditions are not conducive to individuals from different political parties sitting down and agreeing on very, very difficult legislation.
Source: The Charlie Rose Show, September 14, 2007
And Miss Shopping-is-more-fun-than-diplomacy Rice said it two days before General Foxhatesus
Q Do you feel that, you know, President Maliki and his group are truly starting -- I mean, you're working the political side of this. You're working with those folks. Do they seem to slowly pulling this all together?
SEC. RICE: I think the Iraqis are trying to pull it together. Look, what they're doing is very hard. Saddam Hussein destroyed the fabric of that society. Someone asked me, "Why is there no Nelson Mandela that, you know, a general, a huge figure who's appeared to unify Iraq?" Well, the truth of the matter is that Saddam Hussein killed people, a lot of the leadership of Iraq. He killed them and their families and their friends. And these are Iraqi patriots who are trying to lead their country. What they're trying to do is difficult.
Source: KARN Radio Interview September 12, 2007
But, this is my favorite one of all. Vice President Halliburton screwed the pooch entirely when, six days prior to the idiot-in-chief’s mention, Cheney said the following:
Still, Iraqi society continues to suffer the effects of a generation of tyrannical rule. There are those who wonder why free Iraq hasn't yet produced a single, unifying figure like a Hamid Karzai or a Nelson Mandela. The problem, as President Bush pointed out recently, is that the Nelson Mandelas of Iraq are scarce, "because Saddam Hussein made sure that if they didn't escape the country, they were dead."
Source: Cheney, Macdill Air Force Base, September 14, 2007
So where did the Bush Crime Family’s talking point come from originally? Well, it came from Ambassador Crock-of-shit, ten days before Bush’s butchering of the talking-point:
This is the legacy that Iraqis had as their history when Saddam's statue came down on April 9, 2003. No Nelson Mandela existed to emerge on the national political scene; anyone with his leadership talents would have not survived. 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.
Source: Congressional Testimony, September 10, 2007
The question becomes: Does this give evidence to the contention that General Foxhatesus, Ambassador Crock-of-shit, and Dick Halliburton worked together with, say, Stephen Hadley or David Addington to put together the work-product of the good General?
Oh, and for the record, if Saddam did not ‘kill the Mandelas’ in Iraq, the Bush Crime Family surely would have. I end this diary with excerpts of the man from early on in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq:
"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?"
"All that (Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."
"Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white."
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."
"Who are they now to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decided for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership?"
He said Bush was "trying to bring about carnage" and appealed to the American people to vote him out of office and demonstrate against his policies.
"I hope that that opposition will one day make him understand that he has made the greatest mistake of his life."
Source: Financial Times, July 3, 2003