Bishop Desmond Tutu - US and Britain are as full of crap as the South African apartheid government was.

I'm paraphrasing, of course.

Don't know why he's so surprised, honestly. The US opposed any real sanctions of South Africa until the late 1980s. "Constructive Engagement" and all that. While they brutalized they're own people. Wonder who remembers that they labelled Mandela a terrorist?

Crooks and Liars » Desmond Tutu: Terror Detentions Like Apartheid Era:

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the United States and Britain of pursuing policies like those of South Africa’s apartheid-era government by detaining terrorism suspects without trial.

At an event to commemorate the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDR) today, the Nobel laureate said the detention of suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban members at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a “huge blot on a democracy”.

"Whoever imagined that you would hear from the United States and from Britain the same arguments for detention without trial that were used by the apartheid government...”"