Someone pull the Plug on this Old BastardFeb 24th, 2007 - 17:49:00

He's taken a beautiful country (Rhodesia) that used to export lots of food and trashed it into a starving death camp. He needs to be Saddamized and fast. Maybe colonialism wasn't that bad afterall, these 2-bit African tyrants are worse and S.Africa is going down fast with the highest child rape crimes anywhere-just for starters. Bring back the Dutch or something, these guys don't even know how to feed themselves. Stop giving them anymore weapons because all they do is use them on each other or shoot their endangered species for a few laughs-it really is pathetic.

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Obert MadondoFeb 24th, 2007 - 21:18:35

A lesson for Western bullies

Zimbabwean tyrant, Robert Mugabe's lavish 83rd birthday bash is an unfortable lesson to the self-righteous Western governments, led by Britain, who think punishing the devil is the same as fighting for the people of Zimbabwe. The dire situation ordinary Zimbabweans find themselves in today is offspring of Mugabe's corrupt rule and Western sanctions. Robert Mugabe and the West are equally to blame for the stalled democratic process. Can Tony Blair or George Bush tell me what positive effect the sanctions have brought to the political process? Zimbabweans are continuallly having to chose daily survival over fighting for their rights. Since the external debate on Zimbabwe has now mutated into a question of diplomacy in which the players expect nothing short of victory, Western powers will continue to apply punitive measures with no bearing on the democratic process. The Chinese just gave Mugabe another luxury bus; they'll welcome him to Being any time. Isn't it time to democratize the international on Zimbabwe. To the West, sanctions and other punitive measures are not the answer. To Mugabe dialogue is the answer. To the opposition on the ground in Zimbabwe, the answer is to disgard the posibility of being condemned by the West and dialogue with the tyrant.

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SP4: Because Obert...Feb 26th, 2007 - 02:59:23

...when the west refrained from sanctions on S. Africa for apartheid, we were criticised as being racist. There was never a peep about how it might hurt the population.

Now, when we use them to punish a regime, we are being unfeeling, or worse. You need to quit blaming the west for your own failures. A good start would be to defend white farmers rights. This way, you could legitimately claim to not be racists, which you are.

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GooseFeb 26th, 2007 - 05:41:46

Obert Madondo

I do feel for the people of Zim, however every one has a responsibility to his own country and if that means risking life for change then please understand that every free nation in the world has paid that price at sometime or another. Mugabe got you guys into sanctions when he started a race war against a white minority and none of the majority black population gave a hoot. Now that it has backfired and you cant feed yourselves while Mugabe wallows away in his palaces you find it easy to blame the west. Where was your indignation when his thugs were dragging whites off their farms and killing them.

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MacnosMar 8th, 2007 - 21:11:24

It really angers me to see Mugabe always putting the blame on the West. He is constantly telling the people that all of the country's problems are the result of British sabotage when in actual fact it is his courrupt and oppressive regime that is holding down our country. Besides, the West did not impose sanctions on the whole of Zimbabwe, they are actually aimed just at Mugabe and his henchmen. I just wish that the British would get tough with Mugabe, he is like a virus keeping Zimbabwe from developing a healthy economy.

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