“I gave you rampant corruption!
I gave you 100,000% inflation!
I gave you international pariah status!
You should re-elect me, my countrymen…
Because no man has given more to Zimbabwe!”

That said, just because Mugabe’s an election-stealing bigot doesn’t mean the MDC is pure as the driven snow (it’s Africa, after all, they don’t get that sort of thing). What’s their history, and can we be sure that these pre-emptive declarations are in fact correct?

Mugabe’s time is running out. He can either bow out gracefully or risk death Nicolae Ceausescu style.

Personally, I prefer the hemp cravat. Televised, if possible. Of course, liberal do-gooders, the folks mark Twain so aptly described as having the “permanently impaired and leaky water works,” miss the point of executing killers. New neck-ties for kleptocrats like Mugabe seems like a good plan. He can go join Ceausescu, Pol Pot, Che, and a host of others in Hell.

The real challenge is how to get Zimbabwe back onto some semblance of economic and political stability without a blood bath if possible.

Time and again, history has shown that there is a point when a subjugated population says enough is enough and takes drastic measures to rid themselves of the dictator.

Mugabs is Africa’s Pol Pot as he has a distorted idea of how his country and its population should be constructed.

Mugabe’s time is running out. He can either bow out gracefully or risk death Nicolae Ceausescu style.

No, not Jimmy Carter. I didn’t say “worst American president ever.” Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe might well be the worst president in world history. Mugabe turned one of Africa’s richest nations into an economic basket case, and now it appears he’s b…

Correct to a point. The workers and foreman that ran the farms were considered what in the US are called Uncle Toms. They were run off of the farms or killed, as were the whites, by the NoKo trained military and the new owners, who were in large part Mugabe cronies. Another country economically destroyed because of irrational policies and dictatorial rule. The government even turned away corn supplied by the US through the UN for their starving population. Meanwhile in the European capitals Mugabe was treated to state visits and publicly with respect.

I sometimes wonder and cringe at the thought of what happened to those 64 men, mainly Angolans, South Africans and Namibians, who were arrested in the Zimbabwean capital in 2004 after arriving on a Boeing 727 to supposedly overthrow Mugabe.

We can’t police the entire world, but the West certainly acts pathetically as we ignore events that should cause us to remember the Never Again cry after the Holocaust. Who will be there to help us when they come for us?

Who can blame the guy for fighting tooth and nail to hang on to his presidential palace, limo’s and pimped out suits?  And what about all that presidential "booty?"  I saw Coming To America, I know what the big dawg lives lik…

Carter’s final legacy. Civil war in Zimbabwe, Chavez in Venezuela, Chinese operation of the Panama canal, Iran becoming a theocracy. Did I miss anything? :)

a capella on March 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM

Alot actually

Add abandoning the Shah, Giving Nicarauga up to the Sandinistas (1979), Saddam came to power (1979), Russian invasion of afganistan, Crackdown on solidarity in Poland, Removal of Bhutto in Pakistan (father not daughter) and replaced by Islamic thug Zia al Haq and start of Pakistani nukes and some others Im forgetting right now.

…and maybe Mugabe’s friends would do best to start considering a golden parachute now rather than later.

I recommend treachery:

A seemingly neutral and disinterested third party country is ginned up to give Mugabe a face-and-neck-saving escape from Zimbabwe, the opposition takes over, and when the transfer of power is peacefully completed, they send Mugabe back to be tried for murder and the embezzlement of pretty much the entire country, and hang him by the neck until he is dead. His family and criminal associates are hunted down, and the stolen loot is returned to the country, after which they are granted amnesty.

That’s how these things are supposed to be done.

I wish someone in Africa could get it right for just one generation – a new generation raised with the option to live well enough and make the right decisions could break the cycle, or at least I hope it could.

Too much suffering.

And South Africa will follow along as well in the path of Rhodesia.
The old British commonwealth used to provide men to stop the spread of totalitarian rule. We as Americans must remain the last vestige of people who look to the freedom of man to be our governing principles. The English now have a navy smaller than France (and a huge homegrown terror problem), there just aren’t enough of the ANZACS around, and the old RSA and Rhodesian fighting men have scattered to the four winds.
As the beast has risen in the east – islamofascism, will we, the American people chose to stand for liberty and life in the 21st century? Or will we elect to revert to the middle ages and feudalism.
Colonel_prop on March 30, 2008 at 12:43 PM

I agree Colonel, but I don’t think the kids these days are into such a prophetic style in argument. Perhaps, it would be best to detail what muslims do:

kill Christians for repairing a church
kill women because someone suspects them of talking to man
kill gays just for being gay
kill artists for blasphemy
kill jews just for being jews
kill dogs just for being dogs
whipping people for walking their dog
whipping women for showing their ankle

The specific charges are harder to ignore, than the “Islamofascism” scare-word.

For better propaganda!

Mugabe: Election loss a “coup”

I really don’t consider it a coup when you have 150,000 percent inflation. I would call that “change”. Sound familiar?

The old British commonwealth used to provide men to stop the spread of totalitarian rule. We as Americans must remain the last vestige of people who look to the freedom of man to be our governing principles. The English now have a navy smaller than France (and a huge homegrown terror problem), there just aren’t enough of the ANZACS around, and the old RSA and Rhodesian fighting men have scattered to the four winds.

As the beast has risen in the east – islamofascism, will we, the American people chose to stand for liberty and life in the 21st century? Or will we elect to revert to the middle ages and feudalism.

In the famine, he hasn’t missed a meal nor have his cronies.

If dethroned, he will have plenty of places to go and I suspect plenty of money when he gets there.

The question is whether the new government can be any more skilled in running the country properly. Without a running economy, nothing else can be done to raise living standards. This is why perfect socialism results in a sharing of poverty, not wealth.

Carter’s final legacy. Civil war in Zimbabwe, Chavez in Venezuela, Chinese operation of the Panama canal, Iran becoming a theocracy. Did I miss anything? :)

a capella on March 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM

Chris Matthews

“Land Redistribution” was wildly popular amongst the black majority in the country until they realised that they had no idea how to run the farms that underpinned their economy.

They are now reaping what they have sewn.

An election is a coup. That’s the whole point. Democracy allows the people to Turn the Bastards Out in an orderly fashion, without having to resort to all that messy guns and guillotines stuff.

Regards,
Ric