Mandela, Stars Make Plea at AIDS Concert

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Nelson Mandela and international music stars pressed the world's richest nations to save lives with increased action against AIDS and poverty at a benefit concert under the midnight sun in Norway's Arctic.

"Let every child be a healthy child," Mandela told the cheering crowd of almost 18,000. "We know what to do and how much it will cost. We now need leadership, vision and political courage."

The 46664 Arctic Concert, named for Mandela's prisoner number during his 27 years in South African detention, is part of a series of AIDS charity concerts and has drawn such stars as Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Robert Plant, Brian May, Angelique Kidjo and the group Razorlight.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_en_mu/norway_mandela_concert


As Bush leads the world down the path of the Valley of the Shadow of Death:

World's most respected statesman Nelson Mandela says,

"What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."

"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/30/iraq/main538607.shtml

[whatelseisnew]

1. Go Mandela Go

He said Mr. Bush was "trying to bring about carnage" and appealed to the American people to vote him out of office and demonstrate against his policies.
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Last July, the president awarded Mandela the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation's highest civilian honor — dubbing him "perhaps the most revered statesman of our time."

[Kipling]

2. Damn right.

I always liked Mandela. All the goodness of Ghandi without the religion.