It would be interesting to hear what Nelson Mandela thinks of Blair today, including his role in the Middle East peace process. When Blair joined forces with Bush to attack Iraq, Mandela phoned one of the UK government ministers to voice his strong opposition. BBC:
He said: "He rang me up when I was a cabinet minister in 2003, after the invasion.When you compare the two, it would be hard to imagine Mandela selling himself like a cheap whore to the highest bidder the way Blair has. Of course, Mandela was always a true leader whereas Blair never had it in him and he still doesn't. People like Mandela don't come around often which is why we're so often stuck with the likes of Blair.
"He said: 'A big mistake, Peter, a very big mistake. It is wrong. Why is Tony doing this after all his support for Africa? This will cause huge damage internationally'.
"I had never heard Nelson Mandela so angry and frustrated.
"He clearly felt very, very strongly that the decision that the prime minister had taken - and that I as a member of the Cabinet had been party to - was fundamentally wrong and he told me it would destroy all the good things that Tony Blair and we, as a government, had done in progressive policy terms across the world.
"He was always full of praise for the way our government had trebled the overseas aid and development budget for Africa; he just felt that all of this had been completely blown out of the water by the Iraq invasion.
