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![“Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c52/nelson-mandela-248_black_both-bush-as-well-as-tony-blair-are-unde_2110652.jpg)
