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.9: Historical revisionism: Conservatives claim progressives who solved said problem were actually conservatives.
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I haven't been paying much attention to Nelson Mandella's death, but are people declaring him a republican yet?
I've always said he was a commie and always will say he was a commie.Yet you have to go to a liberal website to see
the obvious stated:
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan placed Mandela’s African National Congress on America’s official list of “terrorist” groups. In 1985, then-Congressman Dick Cheney voted against a resolution urging that he be released from jail. In 2004, after Mandela criticized the Iraq War, an article in National Review said his “vicious anti-Americanism and support for Saddam Hussein should come as no surprise, given his longstanding dedication to communism and praise for terrorists.” As late as 2008, the ANC remained on America’s terrorism watch list, thus requiring the 89-year-old Mandela to receive a special waiver from the secretary of State to visit the U.S.