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		<title>By: Because I'm Right</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/12/mugabe-militias-burn-women-and-children-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-1182643</link>
		<dc:creator>Because I'm Right</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Mugabe&#039;s Reign Of Terror Continues - World Shrugs...&lt;/strong&gt;

Serial killer and election-thief Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is continuing his brutal ways in the aftermath of his country&#039;s recent much disputed Presidential election.

President Robert Mugabe&#039;s regime struck at his rivals Thursday only two...</description>
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<p>Serial killer and election-thief Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is continuing his brutal ways in the aftermath of his country&#8217;s recent much disputed Presidential election.</p>
<p>President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s regime struck at his rivals Thursday only two&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: silverfox</title>
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		<dc:creator>silverfox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Then you don’t know Mugabe.

Maxx on June 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I believe he&#039;s impersonating Obama... who, still, doesn&#039;t know Mugabe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Then you don’t know Mugabe.</p>
<p>Maxx on June 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>I believe he&#8217;s impersonating Obama&#8230; who, still, doesn&#8217;t know Mugabe.</p>
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		<title>By: Maxx</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/12/mugabe-militias-burn-women-and-children-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-1181471</link>
		<dc:creator>Maxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;That’s not the Mugabe I know.

whitetop on June 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Then you don&#039;t know Mugabe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That’s not the Mugabe I know.</p>
<p>whitetop on June 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Then you don&#8217;t know Mugabe.</p>
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		<title>By: SIJ6141</title>
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		<dc:creator>SIJ6141</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Romeo 13: The UN also was all over South Africa back in the old days. I suppose that was only because the U.S. and other countries of the west shares their view at the time ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Romeo 13: The UN also was all over South Africa back in the old days. I suppose that was only because the U.S. and other countries of the west shares their view at the time ?</p>
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		<title>By: SIJ6141</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/12/mugabe-militias-burn-women-and-children-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-1181425</link>
		<dc:creator>SIJ6141</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who cares ? This is Africa and it is black on black. O, to be born black ! Cannot do anything wrong in the eyes of our government. Is there still a black caucus in congress ? I do not blame Mbeki and his thugs. They are just protecting their brothers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who cares ? This is Africa and it is black on black. O, to be born black ! Cannot do anything wrong in the eyes of our government. Is there still a black caucus in congress ? I do not blame Mbeki and his thugs. They are just protecting their brothers.</p>
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		<title>By: aengus</title>
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		<dc:creator>aengus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Kind of off topic but as an Indian let me thank US, for being a force for good, and defeating communists.

PS. I hope Republicans win in November.

Gaurav on June 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Gaurav,

Why are you thanking the US for defeating Communists on a thread discussing Zimbabwae and South Africa?

The US and Europe (and the rest of the world) did everything possible to deliver these two countries into Communist rule. Now both these countries are completely wrecked.

Ed Morrissey talks about South Africa, the world&#039;s only genuine Communist democracy, and its &quot;freedom&quot; but there is no rule of law there. A society without the rule of law cannot function.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Kind of off topic but as an Indian let me thank US, for being a force for good, and defeating communists.</p>
<p>PS. I hope Republicans win in November.</p>
<p>Gaurav on June 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Gaurav,</p>
<p>Why are you thanking the US for defeating Communists on a thread discussing Zimbabwae and South Africa?</p>
<p>The US and Europe (and the rest of the world) did everything possible to deliver these two countries into Communist rule. Now both these countries are completely wrecked.</p>
<p>Ed Morrissey talks about South Africa, the world&#8217;s only genuine Communist democracy, and its &#8220;freedom&#8221; but there is no rule of law there. A society without the rule of law cannot function.</p>
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		<title>By: ThePrez</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThePrez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Enough is enough. Just one Tomahawk - targeted at Mugabe’s toilet in a “tragic accident that we deeply regret.” That’s all I ask.

fiatboomer on June 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I agree, but be honest about it. We smoked his monsterous ass cause he had it coming.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Enough is enough. Just one Tomahawk &#8211; targeted at Mugabe’s toilet in a “tragic accident that we deeply regret.” That’s all I ask.</p>
<p>fiatboomer on June 12, 2008 at 9:52 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>I agree, but be honest about it. We smoked his monsterous ass cause he had it coming.</p>
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		<title>By: njcommuter</title>
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		<dc:creator>njcommuter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Robert Mugabe……..father of his county. Yeah.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Not father.  M-----f---er.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Robert Mugabe……..father of his county. Yeah.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not father.  M&#8212;&#8211;f&#8212;er.</p>
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		<title>By: gzelmiami</title>
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		<dc:creator>gzelmiami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kind of off topic but as an Indian let me thank US, for being a force for good, and defeating communists.

PS. I hope Republicans win in November.

Gaurav on June 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM


Navaho or Cherokee?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kind of off topic but as an Indian let me thank US, for being a force for good, and defeating communists.</p>
<p>PS. I hope Republicans win in November.</p>
<p>Gaurav on June 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM</p>
<p>Navaho or Cherokee?</p>
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		<title>By: ej_pez</title>
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		<dc:creator>ej_pez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So....business, as usual.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So&#8230;.business, as usual.</p>
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		<title>By: GarandFan</title>
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		<dc:creator>GarandFan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert Mugabe........father of his county.  Yeah.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert Mugabe&#8230;&#8230;..father of his county.  Yeah.</p>
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		<title>By: crosspatch</title>
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		<dc:creator>crosspatch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yup, yet another world crisis to lay in the lap of Jimmy Carter.  But to be fair, Mugabe is 80-some years old and the generals have told him to shut up.  My understanding is that a military junta is really running things and they are afraid they would be out of a job if Mugabe loses.  But still, thanks, Jimmy ... for nothing.

You can also blame Carter for running away from Iran which allowed the Soviets to invade Afghanistan that resulted in the creation of al Qaeda and the Taliban which eventually resulted in 9/11 ... Jimmy Carter&#039;s chickens returning to NY to roost.

WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yup, yet another world crisis to lay in the lap of Jimmy Carter.  But to be fair, Mugabe is 80-some years old and the generals have told him to shut up.  My understanding is that a military junta is really running things and they are afraid they would be out of a job if Mugabe loses.  But still, thanks, Jimmy &#8230; for nothing.</p>
<p>You can also blame Carter for running away from Iran which allowed the Soviets to invade Afghanistan that resulted in the creation of al Qaeda and the Taliban which eventually resulted in 9/11 &#8230; Jimmy Carter&#8217;s chickens returning to NY to roost.</p>
<p>WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Vic</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But...but...Jimmuh Cahtuh once said that a government under Mugabe would be good for Rhodesia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But&#8230;but&#8230;Jimmuh Cahtuh once said that a government under Mugabe would be good for Rhodesia.</p>
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		<title>By: Hening</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hening</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can empathize with Black/African Americans that hate the USA. Due to their ancestors coming to this continent by force  they are missing out on a huge part of their ancestral culture of pure barbaric treatment of fellow Black Africans.  Sure, Hip-Hop culture and drive by shootings are almost as good, but it&#039;s just not the same Black on Black they have back in the jungle.

Thankfully the British have lost the ability to control this type of savagery, and we can all breath a heavy sigh of relief with Madella that things are back to where they were before the evil White man arrived.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can empathize with Black/African Americans that hate the USA. Due to their ancestors coming to this continent by force  they are missing out on a huge part of their ancestral culture of pure barbaric treatment of fellow Black Africans.  Sure, Hip-Hop culture and drive by shootings are almost as good, but it&#8217;s just not the same Black on Black they have back in the jungle.</p>
<p>Thankfully the British have lost the ability to control this type of savagery, and we can all breath a heavy sigh of relief with Madella that things are back to where they were before the evil White man arrived.</p>
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		<title>By: cthulhu</title>
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		<dc:creator>cthulhu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Mugabe were liquidated tomorrow, the thugocracy would find another figurehead by Sunday. One Predator probably couldn&#039;t do the job.

The country is full of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Ra%C5%BEnatovi%C4%87&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arkans&lt;/a&gt;, and a more general purge will be required to clean up the situation. Being in the heart of Africa, however, there is little impetus for action by the international community.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Mugabe were liquidated tomorrow, the thugocracy would find another figurehead by Sunday. One Predator probably couldn&#8217;t do the job.</p>
<p>The country is full of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Ra%C5%BEnatovi%C4%87" rel="nofollow">Arkans</a>, and a more general purge will be required to clean up the situation. Being in the heart of Africa, however, there is little impetus for action by the international community.</p>
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		<title>By: right2bright</title>
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		<dc:creator>right2bright</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Obama ‘08, trying to bring the Zimbabwe miracle home. Because it’s not that reparations and land confiscation are bad ideas on their face, but they just didn’t try them the right way.

funky chicken on June 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Or as he states about the gas prices, it can be too quick, you just have to ease into it and it will be acceptable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Obama ‘08, trying to bring the Zimbabwe miracle home. Because it’s not that reparations and land confiscation are bad ideas on their face, but they just didn’t try them the right way.</p>
<p>funky chicken on June 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM</p></blockquote>
<p>Or as he states about the gas prices, it can be too quick, you just have to ease into it and it will be acceptable.</p>
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		<title>By: JustTruth101</title>
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		<dc:creator>JustTruth101</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Never forget that when Jimmy Carter was President he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nysun.com/opinion/carters-role-in-zimbabwe/58232/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;refused to meet&lt;/a&gt; with the democratically winner of the Rhodesia election, and insisted that only a gov&#039;t with Mugabe in charge would be acceptable to the US.

Obama = Carter x 10 (because Obama is a smooth talker...he will be able to fool more people more of the time than Carter ever could.)

The state of the world today is what it is BECAUSE of America&#039;s complacency, which is what it is because the liberals took over America&#039;s educational system.  Liberals in the 60&#039;s always said all they needed was to control US education to change the world.  They&#039;re getting their wish.  How long will Americans allow this to continue?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Never forget that when Jimmy Carter was President he <a href="http://www.nysun.com/opinion/carters-role-in-zimbabwe/58232/" rel="nofollow">refused to meet</a> with the democratically winner of the Rhodesia election, and insisted that only a gov&#8217;t with Mugabe in charge would be acceptable to the US.</p>
<p>Obama = Carter x 10 (because Obama is a smooth talker&#8230;he will be able to fool more people more of the time than Carter ever could.)</p>
<p>The state of the world today is what it is BECAUSE of America&#8217;s complacency, which is what it is because the liberals took over America&#8217;s educational system.  Liberals in the 60&#8217;s always said all they needed was to control US education to change the world.  They&#8217;re getting their wish.  How long will Americans allow this to continue?</p>
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		<title>By: PattyJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>PattyJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jimmy Carter is proving year after year to be the worst American leftist president ever.  He threw away Rhodesia because of devotion to anti-colonialism and worship of the Common Man--and he brought the country hell on earth.  He threw away Iran because the Shah was a monarch and trod on the Common Man--and he brought the country an Islamic hell on earth.

These countries, and South Africa, show that the only thing worse than colonialism is independence in a country unprepared to govern itself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jimmy Carter is proving year after year to be the worst American leftist president ever.  He threw away Rhodesia because of devotion to anti-colonialism and worship of the Common Man&#8211;and he brought the country hell on earth.  He threw away Iran because the Shah was a monarch and trod on the Common Man&#8211;and he brought the country an Islamic hell on earth.</p>
<p>These countries, and South Africa, show that the only thing worse than colonialism is independence in a country unprepared to govern itself.</p>
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		<title>By: funky chicken</title>
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		<dc:creator>funky chicken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;We can confidently predict that the Foreign Office will not revoke Robert Mugabe&#039;s honorary knighthood until the day after the brutalised people of Zimbabwe rise up against their oppressor.

It was the Conservative Government of John Major which required the Queen to bestow that honour, in 1994. This was fully 10years after it had become widely accepted that the Zimbabwean leader had been responsible for the massacre of up to 20,000 civilians in Matabeleland.

The Blair Government has from time to time pretended that it will strip Mugabe of his Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath: in March 2003 a member of the Foreign Office told Scotland on Sunday that &quot;it is inconceivable that he will be allowed to remain a knight when his behaviour is so appalling&quot;.

It is, of course, not inconceivable at all. In December of that year Mr Blair was asked in the House of Commons by a Tory MP whether he would recommend stripping Mugabe of his knighthood. He replied that &quot;we will certainly look at the issue of the honorary knighthood, although I somehow question what the impact of that might be on him&quot;.

Thus the Prime Minister, with his characteristic skill, completely missed the point. It is not to humiliate Robert Mugabe that his knighthood should be revoked: it is to end our own humiliation - and most particularly that of our honours system. Unfortunately, as other events have demonstrated, Mr Blair has a profoundly cynical view of that system. He seems to have seen no merit in it, other than as a means of supporting his own political objectives: as a result he has done far more damage to it than any old Labour socialist, committed on principle to its destruction.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-compared-to-robert-mugabes-knighthood-salman-rushdies-looks-positively-virtuous-454122.html

OK...it was Italy he gets into &quot;on UN business&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>We can confidently predict that the Foreign Office will not revoke Robert Mugabe&#8217;s honorary knighthood until the day after the brutalised people of Zimbabwe rise up against their oppressor.</p>
<p>It was the Conservative Government of John Major which required the Queen to bestow that honour, in 1994. This was fully 10years after it had become widely accepted that the Zimbabwean leader had been responsible for the massacre of up to 20,000 civilians in Matabeleland.</p>
<p>The Blair Government has from time to time pretended that it will strip Mugabe of his Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath: in March 2003 a member of the Foreign Office told Scotland on Sunday that &#8220;it is inconceivable that he will be allowed to remain a knight when his behaviour is so appalling&#8221;.</p>
<p>It is, of course, not inconceivable at all. In December of that year Mr Blair was asked in the House of Commons by a Tory MP whether he would recommend stripping Mugabe of his knighthood. He replied that &#8220;we will certainly look at the issue of the honorary knighthood, although I somehow question what the impact of that might be on him&#8221;.</p>
<p>Thus the Prime Minister, with his characteristic skill, completely missed the point. It is not to humiliate Robert Mugabe that his knighthood should be revoked: it is to end our own humiliation &#8211; and most particularly that of our honours system. Unfortunately, as other events have demonstrated, Mr Blair has a profoundly cynical view of that system. He seems to have seen no merit in it, other than as a means of supporting his own political objectives: as a result he has done far more damage to it than any old Labour socialist, committed on principle to its destruction.</p></blockquote>
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<p>OK&#8230;it was Italy he gets into &#8220;on UN business&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: passingtramp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;funky chicken on June 12, 2008 at 10:51 AM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Pretty sure not, no.</description>
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<p>Pretty sure not, no.</p>
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		<title>By: I R A Darth Aggie</title>
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		<dc:creator>I R A Darth Aggie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Enough is enough. Just one Tomahawk - targeted at Mugabe’s toilet in a “tragic accident that we deeply regret.” That’s all I ask.&lt;/em&gt;

Nothing says &lt;strong&gt;I love you&lt;/strong&gt; quite like a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Enough is enough. Just one Tomahawk &#8211; targeted at Mugabe’s toilet in a “tragic accident that we deeply regret.” That’s all I ask.</em></p>
<p>Nothing says <strong>I love you</strong> quite like a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: funky chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4349042.stm

Hmmm maybe it was only Chirac that gave him the state visit.  But he got into Britain on &quot;UN business&quot; somehow or something a while back, didn&#039;t he?</description>
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<p>Hmmm maybe it was only Chirac that gave him the state visit.  But he got into Britain on &#8220;UN business&#8221; somehow or something a while back, didn&#8217;t he?</p>
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		<title>By: funky chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>passingtramp, uh, he was a couple of years ago, and everybody already knew what was happening to opposition figures and white farmers then</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>passingtramp, uh, he was a couple of years ago, and everybody already knew what was happening to opposition figures and white farmers then</p>
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		<title>By: funky chicken</title>
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		<dc:creator>funky chicken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And yeah, I would have zero problem with dropping them over their home countries from the air if that is the only way to &quot;send them home&quot;  ... call me a redstate warmonger or whatever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And yeah, I would have zero problem with dropping them over their home countries from the air if that is the only way to &#8220;send them home&#8221;  &#8230; call me a redstate warmonger or whatever.</p>
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		<title>By: passingtramp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;And still be received as a respected head of state in France and Great Britain.

Obama ‘08, trying to bring the Zimbabwe miracle home. Because it’s not that reparations and land confiscation are bad ideas on their face, but they just didn’t try them the right way.

funky chicken on June 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM

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Mugabe&#039;s certainly not received as a respected head of state in Britain, by liberals or otherwise. In fact he&#039;s one of the few things everyone agrees on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>And still be received as a respected head of state in France and Great Britain.</p>
<p>Obama ‘08, trying to bring the Zimbabwe miracle home. Because it’s not that reparations and land confiscation are bad ideas on their face, but they just didn’t try them the right way.</p>
<p>funky chicken on June 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM</p>
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<p>Mugabe&#8217;s certainly not received as a respected head of state in Britain, by liberals or otherwise. In fact he&#8217;s one of the few things everyone agrees on.</p>
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