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UN Delegates Cheer Mugabe Tirade

Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 8:25:09 am PDT

The United Nations invited Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe to a conference in Rome, where, to an audience of applauding UN delegates, he gave a speech comparing Bush and Blair to Hitler and Mussolini.

“Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?” asked Mr Mugabe, apparently referring to Iraq.

“The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can’t decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq,” he said.

Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by white Zimbabweans, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.

He blamed agricultural subsidies offered to farm produce from developed countries for crippling “the development of agriculture in developing countries”.

Delegates applauded Mr Mugabe at the end of his speech.

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1 taxfreekiller  10/17/05 6:26:07 am reply quote

Navy, one more time.

2 SP-Divers  10/17/05 6:26:41 am reply quote

Another UN 'Bash Bush' Fest

/Hurls breakfast

3 Americain  10/17/05 6:26:43 am reply quote

Get the U.N out of the U.S.

4 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 6:27:06 am reply quote

Mugabe is scum. He's just another corrupt tinpot dictator who is starving his people to death through his incompetence, stiffles dissent with murder, and then blames the eeevvviiiiiillll US and UK for his own failings.

/spit

PS First?

5 Ward Cleaver  10/17/05 6:27:18 am reply quote

There is only topic on which I can agree with Hugo Chavez - the UN should leave New York.

6 mglazer  10/17/05 6:27:25 am reply quote

The UN needs more US citizens tax paid money!

7 coulterclone  10/17/05 6:27:38 am reply quote

Ditto Taxfree

I think I"m going to rip up the $10,000,000 check I just wrote to Bob Geldof.

8 tankdemon  10/17/05 6:28:06 am reply quote

That entire continent is a failure. There are reasons that Europe colonized Africa and not the other way around.

9 Ward Cleaver  10/17/05 6:28:22 am reply quote

Why the f*ck doesn't somebody arrest Mugabe while he's in NYC, and charge him with crimes against humanity?

10 Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus  10/17/05 6:28:56 am reply quote

Hey, have I ever told anyone that the UN is a corrupt, morally-bankrupt organisation?

In case I haven't, they are.

11 Spiny Norman  10/17/05 6:29:00 am reply quote

Cheering Mugabe? Good G-d, the UN has jumped the shark!

Any claim the the UN is about "peace" and "resolving conflict" has flown out the window. They are not in favor of peace, the f*cking UN is on the other side.

12 Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus  10/17/05 6:29:25 am reply quote

#9 Ward Cleaver

Because he was in Rome.

13 Gagdad Bob  10/17/05 6:29:44 am reply quote

This is called projection. If Mugabe actually wants us to kill him, he will have to take it one step further and engage in projective identification:

[Link: onecosmos.blogspot.com...]

14 Laffer Curve  10/17/05 6:30:21 am reply quote

Just more evidence that the UN is a moral black hole.

Mugabe is a murderer and the UN treats him like a rock star.

WTF?

15 Poitiers-Lepanto  10/17/05 6:30:23 am reply quote

The world we live in is well described by the fact that a thug like this can speak in an international convention.

His hands are red from the blood of his people.
He has killed thousands of white farmers and now his country produces nothing.

I like the list of his allies: Iran, Venezuela...

THUGS OF THE WORLD, UNITE !

16 gymnast  10/17/05 6:30:31 am reply quote

Has the UN endorsed the Robert Mugabe diet yet? The one where after you destroy your farms you eat the livers of the farmers.

17 channeling the shah  10/17/05 6:30:38 am reply quote

looks like mugabe just nabbed a coveted invite to hugo chavez & castro's carribean christmas party!

18 mpax  10/17/05 6:31:00 am reply quote

Maybe the UN delegates would be happy to relocate to Zimbabwe? We are long past the time when the UN can pretend any moral relevance.
Am off to email the story to my senators (Clinton/Schumer). It won't make them behave any differently, but I want them to know we don't all follow the NYT party line.

19 DIAMONDMASC  10/17/05 6:31:16 am reply quote

How much more of a poster child for what is wrong with africa then mugabe, and that we need to leave the UN without delay, when you have an organisation that puts north korea and libya on an equal footing as the united states, thats not just wrong but obviously dangerous to world peace

20 LanceKates  10/17/05 6:31:30 am reply quote

Well... technically...

we have the best military in the world....so in theory, we CAN tell people how to do things...

but the fact that we DON'T shows the moral character of our leadership.

we COULD have invaded country after country and taken what we wanted.... which is what Saddam had tried to do, but got stopped when he went after kuwait. and lets not forget the all-encompassing reach of Islam...

in contrast, we Americans go to foreign lands and destroy the evil leadership, and then give the country to the people there... asking for nothing in return.

21 mglazer  10/17/05 6:31:48 am reply quote

UN + Liberals = murdering tyrants

Liberals + murdering tyrant = mugabe

22 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 6:31:59 am reply quote

Mugabe is scum. He's just another corrupt tinpot dictator who is starving his people to death through his incompetence, stiffles dissent with murder, and then blames the eeevvviiiiiillll US and UK for his own failings.

/spit

PS First?

PPS I know Mugabe is "elected." I'm sure one of the resident trolls will say that he's less of a dictator than GW Bush. The reality, though, is that nobody has a chance of successfully opposing Mugabe in Zimbabwe's polls. Not if they want to keep breathing, that is...

23 Occasional Reader  10/17/05 6:32:30 am reply quote

Laugh it up, Mugabe. You'll be dead within two years, maximum. Count on it.

24 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 6:32:54 am reply quote

OT Sorry for the double post. Internet Exploder crashed when I was trying to post the first one, didn't think it made it. Ooops.

25 Ward Cleaver  10/17/05 6:33:16 am reply quote

#12 TQC

Duh, that's what I get for not paying attention.

26 W-lover  10/17/05 6:33:17 am reply quote
looks like mugabe just nabbed a coveted invite to hugo chavez & castro's carribean christmas party!

Commies have Christmas?

27 Jay777  10/17/05 6:33:21 am reply quote

For those who know me, this may come as a shock, but I detest the U.N. more than the ACLU.

28 mglazer  10/17/05 6:33:34 am reply quote

GET THE US OUT OF THE UN

29 bianchi_roadie  10/17/05 6:34:30 am reply quote

I guess this means that Zimbabwe is fine and doesn't need the UN to provide food and relief funds?

And Mugabe compared himself to Hitler a while ago, does that mean he considers that a compliment?

30 W-lover  10/17/05 6:35:37 am reply quote
Mugabe is scum. He's just another corrupt tinpot dictator who is starving his people to death through his incompetence, stiffles dissent with murder, and then blames the eeevvviiiiiillll US and UK for his own failings.

And that's why the UN loves him.

31 bunker buster  10/17/05 6:35:41 am reply quote

And the UN's love affair with communists and thugocrats continues...

32 Cognosus  10/17/05 6:35:44 am reply quote

Assassination couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

I look at it like this: we can either knock him off now and ensure that someone relatively better replaces him, or we can pay billions of dollars in aid shipments to his shithole of a country in a few years. (And knowing our congress, simply NOT paying them is not an option.)

It's not a tough choice.

33 Leonidasofsparta  10/17/05 6:35:49 am reply quote

Odd words coming from the man who nearly single handedly starved hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen to death....naturally I can picture Annan giving him the "high five" after he and his son Cujo milked the UN and Oil for Food programme of billions, starving helpless Iraqis.

34 mglazer  10/17/05 6:36:11 am reply quote

to make the UN obsolete all we have to do is not support it with our money

Imagine the US not supporting the UN?

35 Poitiers-Lepanto  10/17/05 6:36:14 am reply quote

He will get a Nobel prize in 2006.

36 Megan  10/17/05 6:37:19 am reply quote

Opression and genocide against people of a different race who are scapegaoted for the nation's failures...nah, that's certainly not like Hitler./sarc

37 cjstavern  10/17/05 6:37:45 am reply quote

#18 mpax

I'm afraid you would be wasting your time. Clinton and Schumer agree with Mugabe.

38 Dirk Diggler  10/17/05 6:37:45 am reply quote

"We must understand the root causes of why Zimbabwean people have been reduced to eating roots."

/UN Secretary General Coughing Anus

39 Fatal  10/17/05 6:37:54 am reply quote

Gads, how much of this crap are we going to take before we tell the U.N. to get the hell out of our country. Come on U.S. politicians, grow some gravitas and do what is in the best interest of OUR country for a change!

40 W-lover  10/17/05 6:38:19 am reply quote

Just remember that Angelina said the UN is the only thing that fights for justice in the world...

/not sarc- she really said that

41 Free Speech Is Only For über-Libs  10/17/05 6:38:37 am reply quote

Robert Mugabe - the mass murderer?

He needs to look in the mirror when he says such things. The leftist universe is really going down the toilet.

42 Occasional Reader  10/17/05 6:38:52 am reply quote

#33 Leonidasofsparta:

And don't forget Mugabe's innovative slum clearance program, which is simplicity itself: Drive bulldozers through the slums, whether or not there are people in the houses. Very "progressive".

(BTW, congratulations on the Thermopylae thing. "Stranger, go tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their laws"... good stuff.)

43 Megan  10/17/05 6:39:12 am reply quote

He forgot to blame the Zionazis!
/moonbat and Muslim delegates

44 Terp Mole  10/17/05 6:39:39 am reply quote

Anybody see Cox & Forkum on this weekend's Toledo riots?

The characters could easily morph into Mugabe and the U.N. socialists.

45 mglazer  10/17/05 6:39:41 am reply quote

The axis of insanity is world tyrants and liberals like the UN

Want peace on earth and the axis set right get rid of the UN platform for legitimizing murder and Liberals mental disease

46 BIG  10/17/05 6:39:54 am reply quote

It is through UN conferences like these that we are able to discover exactly who John Kerry was referring to as "our allies".

47 MSMediaCritic  10/17/05 6:39:58 am reply quote

Further proof that the UN is irrelevant. Objective reality is not permitted, let alone tolerated.

48 Stringart  10/17/05 6:40:03 am reply quote
Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by white Zimbabweans, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.

Maybe I've got my history wrong, but didn't Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia and didn't their farmers grow enough food to not only feed Rhodesia, but the rest of Africa?

Feeding yourselves doesn't seem that unjust, but what do I know?

49 Leonidasofsparta  10/17/05 6:40:05 am reply quote

:) thanks occasional. (now THERE was a king!)

50 SwampWoman  10/17/05 6:40:08 am reply quote

Good grief. He singlehandedly made Zimbabwe into a nation that couldn't feed itself.

Yep, I can see where the UN would be really, really happy about that.

51 TotallySirius  10/17/05 6:41:38 am reply quote
He blamed agricultural subsidies offered to farm produce from developed countries for crippling “the development of agriculture in developing countries”.

Yeah Bob,it had nothing to do with murdering the only productive farmers you had then replacing them with uneducated people as rewards for supporting you.

52 plutosdad  10/17/05 6:41:38 am reply quote

Yeah, why does agriculture in Africa suck so bad and people starve?

It's not "land reform" itself which has killed tens of millions of people the last century. It's global warming, or big bad white guy. The fact that every single famine in the past 100 years was precipitated by land reform is just a coincidence!

It's not the Europeans' refusal to buy GMO produce that might produce a profit. It's their farm subsidies!

It's big bad white males.

A genocidal maniac compares Bush and Blair to Hitler, and the UN cheers. I'm actually surprised, I would think they would be upset at insulting Hitler, a man who obviously had all the same values as the current UN.

53 mglazer  10/17/05 6:41:58 am reply quote

Theft of land is considered sane since the owner's are 'white'

THE UN APPLAUDS!

54 Ward Cleaver  10/17/05 6:42:39 am reply quote

#40 w-lover

What a skank she is. I'll bet even Mugabe wouldn't touch her.

55 MTNester  10/17/05 6:42:55 am reply quote

#20 LanceKates

in contrast, we Americans go to foreign lands and destroy the evil leadership, and then give the country to the people there... asking for nothing in return.

Not only that, but in many (most?) cases, we pay to rebuild their infrastructure, etc. in order for the people to get back on their feet.

56 Matticus Finch  10/17/05 6:43:04 am reply quote

Though officially banned from travelling to EU countries, Mr Mugabe is allowed to visit them when on UN business.


Did anyone catch this? I don't understand it. Talk about multiple personality disorder. "Ahem. Mr. Mugabe, speaking on behalf of Rome, you're a murdererous, ruthless dictator." *gets tap on shoulder*..."What? He is?...Oh, he's here in a UN capacity. Well then, welcome Mr. Mugabe, you are a pillar of goodness!"

It's like a Monty Python sketch.

57 Colin Nelson  10/17/05 6:43:24 am reply quote

Evidently this thug is able to travel anywhere he wants as long as it is on UN business.
Please help me here: just when did Italy as a sovereign nation lose its power to determine who can and cannot set foot in Italy?
Has the UN acquired some uber-state powers I have not yet heard of?
Or, more likely, did Italy sign on to this insane notion of its own free will?
Just curious.

cn

58 mpax  10/17/05 6:43:46 am reply quote

Re #37
Then I just wasted my time. Sometimes you just gotta say something outside the circle. venting here is like preaching to the choir.

59 greenmamba  10/17/05 6:44:09 am reply quote

I looked around and golly gumdrops, it seems the BBC headline and story are somewhat misleading!

Here are some other headlines on this story:

UN: ANGER OVER MUGABE'S PRESENCE AT FOOD AT 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOOD AGENCY

Mugabe compares Bush, Blair to Hitler at UN event

Some of the delegates applauded his fiery anti-Western speech several times. But ....
60 moonsbreath  10/17/05 6:44:23 am reply quote

You just need to know that Mugabe is a friend to Jimma Carter. That tells it all.

61 W-lover  10/17/05 6:44:29 am reply quote

Ward-

Yeah- I posted her exact quote on Thursday or Friday. But what do you expect out of Hollywood?

62 Leonidasofsparta  10/17/05 6:44:52 am reply quote

"Honor to those who in the life they lead
define and guard a Thermopylae.

Never betraying what is right,
consistent and just in all they do
but showing pity also, and compassion;
generous when they're rich, and when they're poor,
still generous in small ways,
still helping as much as they can;
always speaking the truth,
yet without hating those who lie.

And even more honor is due to them
when they foresee (as many do foresee)
that Ephialtis will turn up in the end,
that the Medes will break through after all."
(Constantine Cavafy)

63 Mentat  10/17/05 6:45:34 am reply quote

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The Mobots are trying to shut us down folks but they don't know who they are are messin' with. LIVE FREE OR DIE!

64 Chicken Kiev  10/17/05 6:46:02 am reply quote

That sky-blue flag with its white laurel leaves or whatever the hell they are makes me as nauseous these days as the Paleo flag.

I wish the damn UN was really as irrelevant as I think it is.

65 right wing zephyr  10/17/05 6:46:04 am reply quote
Though officially banned from travelling to EU countries, Mr Mugabe is allowed to visit them when on UN business.

Is that something like the Terrorist President of Iran who has threatened the US repeatedly and is banned from coming to the US, getting a special visa to come to the UN?

Get this straight. In matters of allowing an international platform for America's and Europe's enemies to bash America and Europe on American and European soil, UN has jurisdiction. EU + US < UN

very scary, the power of the UN.

67 Megan  10/17/05 6:46:18 am reply quote

He didn't blame AIDS on white people this time, or say it's somehow our responsibility to pour billions into their country to "fix" the problem? (Rather than the much simpler and more effective method of PREVENTING it in the first place).

68 Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus  10/17/05 6:46:44 am reply quote

Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by white Zimbabweans, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.

Yeah, since, you know, being able to actually feed your people is a grave injustice.....

69 Just_A_Grunt  10/17/05 6:46:46 am reply quote

It is never too early to start campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Right now I have it as even money between Chavez and Mugabe.
/sarcasm

70 LanceKates  10/17/05 6:46:57 am reply quote

#55 MTNester

when there's some natural disaster in some forgeign country, people expect us to carry the load... in fact, they complain if we're not 'quick enough'

However, when we rebuild a country from the disaster of an evil leadership, people complain that we're just trying to steal oil, or make a puppet government, or being imperialistic.

yet we don't have a 51st state.... and I don't remember getting any free oil... and i'm SURE the NYT would have run any "US Stole Oil" Story day after day for months...

71 W-lover  10/17/05 6:47:11 am reply quote
That sky-blue flag with its white laurel leaves or whatever the hell they are makes me as nauseous these days as the Paleo flag.

I'd like to burn some...

72 right wing zephyr  10/17/05 6:47:36 am reply quote
The US accuses Mr Mugabe of starving his people and has said his presence at the food summit is "disheartening".

Certainly there's stronger language that could be applicable. Suggestions?

73 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 6:48:01 am reply quote

Even some of the inmates over on Democrap Undergound understand that Mugabe is a monster.

Note, I said some. David_77, for example, is all for seeing "whitey" get his. (Anyone else notice that many libs are really closet racists -- against blacks and whites -- of the worst sort? Just saying...)

74 Chicken Kiev  10/17/05 6:48:30 am reply quote

Hitlerbushnazihitlerbushhalliburtonnazi.

Sharonhitlernazi....

Say something often enough and it becomes meaningless.

Or say something often enough and it becomes liturgy.

I can't remember which.

75 Ward Cleaver  10/17/05 6:48:30 am reply quote

#44 Terp Mole

There's an interesting line in the accompanying post (from an FNC article):

The neighborhood northwest of downtown, full of tree-lined streets and well-kept brick homes, once was a thriving Polish community. But within the last decade it's become home to poorer residents. ...

Nazis in a Polish neighborhood? The irony is unbelievable.

76 hous bin pharteen  10/17/05 6:50:12 am reply quote

Close the UN.
Move em to some third world country. (Mugabee land?)
Give the land its on back to the Indians.
Let em build a casino there.

Its a win/win/win.

77 SwampWoman  10/17/05 6:50:18 am reply quote

Heh. This story just kinda reached out and grabbed me. Bombs go off in Iran, it's Tony Blair (bwahahahahaha!)

Britain is oppressing Iran again

78 coulterclone  10/17/05 6:50:29 am reply quote

.....after a thunderous round of applause following the speech, the dictator quieted the crowd and introduced a chorus of ten thousand female virgins clad only in grass skirts who were selected to sing and dance to Zimbabwe's new national anthem. Self-proclaimed "Big Chief Guy What's in Charge for Life" Mugabe anounced that he would be choosing 50 of the best performers to become his temporary wives for the evening. The crowd enthusiastically clapped to the beat and sang along as the throng of bare breasted young girls began gyrating before them:

The cannibal king with the big nose ring
Fell in love with the dusty ma-a-aid
And every night by the pale moon light
Across the lake he wa-a-aid
He hugged and he kissed his pretty little miss
Under the bamboo tree-e-e
And every night by the pale moon light, it sounded like this to me-e-e
A-RUMP (kissing sound) (kissing sound)
A-RUMP (kissing sound) (kissing sound)
A-RUMP-DA-DE-A-DE-A-A-A
A-RUMP (kissing sound) (kissing sound)
A-RUMP (kissing sound) (kissing sound)
A-RUMP-DA-DE-A-DE-A-A-A
We'll build a bungaloo big enough for two, big enough for two, my darling, big enough for three
And when we're married, happy we'll be, under the bamboo, under the bamboo tree
If you'll be M-I-N-E mine
I'll be T-H-I-N-E thine
And I'll L-O-V-E love you all the T-I-M-E time
You are the B-E-S-T best of all the R-E-S-T rest
And I'll L-O-V-E love you all the T-I-M-E time
RACK 'EM, SACK 'EM any ole time
Match in a gas tank -- BOOM BOOM

79 right wing zephyr  10/17/05 6:50:39 am reply quote
"The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in
Venezuala, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq," he said.

What? Can't think of another SA or CA dictatorship to toss in the mix?

Anyone have guesses as to what Mr Mugabe and Chavez got cookin'?

80 LanceKates  10/17/05 6:52:10 am reply quote

#78 coulterclone

well... you put that many half naked ladies together, and you'll get people's attention even if they just recite stock quotes.

81 grayp  10/17/05 6:52:14 am reply quote

He's right. Ag subsidies in developed countries are crippling ag development in the third world. And guess who is blocking reform? Why the French of course.

It all seemed like such a good idea at the time. In a carefully choreographed move yesterday, Washington and Brussels launched an attempt to revitalise stalled WTO negotiations, announcing subsidy cuts for farmers in the United States and the European Union. According to The Guardian, US trade representative, Robert Portman, led the way with an offer to cut want the paper called “the most trade-distorting American farm support” by 60 percent by 2013, provided Europe responded with its own 80 percent reduction The much-rested Peter Mandelson then responded by calling the US offer "constructive” and announced a plan to cut EU agricultural subsidies by 70 percent and to set a ceiling of 10 percent for industrial tariffs. Trebles all round and much jollification – apart from Oxfam, which immediately started peering deep into the horse’s mouth - as this was seen as the breakthrough that would allow progress to be made in the other areas covered by the Doha round of negotiations launched almost four years ago. But that was to reckon without the utterly loathsome French. By the afternoon, according to Reuters, French trade minister Christine Lagarde (above) was accusing Mandelson of going too far, complaining that he had not consulted EU member states enough beforehand. With hauteur characteristic of the breed, she sniffed: "The points on which I think Commissioner Mandelson went beyond the conditions and principles of his mandate, and his obligation on transparency with member states, concern in particular the positions he took on agriculture," adding, "We need to remind the commissioner of the red line of his mandate." We have said it before, and we'll say it again. The French political breed is utterly loathsome. The case for cutting subsidies and opening our markets to the developing world is unarguable and, for want of concessions by the developed states, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people die each year. But does that worry that shoddy crew in Paris? Does it heck. They really, really are loathsome.

Yes, the French are loathsome.

EU Referendum Oct 12 2005

82 lawhawk  10/17/05 6:52:18 am reply quote

Pot meet kettle, Mugabe. You're complaining about tariffs and agricultural subsidies all while you're busy kicking landowners off their land and turning what was once pretty decent agricultural lands into a veritable wasteland because of cronyism, corruption, and absurd policies that threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans.

83 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 6:52:57 am reply quote

#30 W-lover 10/17/2005 08:35AM PDT

And that's why the UN loves him.

Yup. That's where I was going, but didn't quite get there with my post. Thanks for taking up the slack for me!

84 Axiom  10/17/05 6:53:28 am reply quote

UN delegates cheering dictators?

Naw. You're making this up.

85 Megan  10/17/05 6:53:47 am reply quote

Since when is it racist to demand individual liberty, personal accountability, and civilized behavior?

86 right Brain  10/17/05 6:54:27 am reply quote

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...

87 Fellay Timi  10/17/05 6:54:41 am reply quote

#63 Mentat

If your DNS is being blocked to certain IP's, you can easily get the IP Here by using the ping tool

(assuming ping doesnt resolve the URL to an IP from a command propmt whilst you are online).

All you need to do then is type the IP into the address bar rather than URL

FT

88 Dirk Diggler  10/17/05 6:56:59 am reply quote

Terp Mole,

I remembered reading about Farrakhanvict complaining about the federal rescue and relief efforts in the aftermath of Katrina and thinking "Doesn't the NOI have a mothership?"

"Couldn't that be sent to New Orleans to pluck those people off their roof tops?"

89 Just_A_Grunt  10/17/05 6:57:09 am reply quote

Mr Mugabe meet Mr Bin Laden. Wait until you hear the deal Mr Laden has for you. His ambassabor Mr Zawahiri should be setting up a meeting shortly. I think they are kind of tired the Middle Eastern desert and are looking to explore business oppurtunities in other markets. The Darfur thing has gone more or less as well as could be expected by the jihadists so some branch offices are just what is needed.

90 Cheesehead  10/17/05 6:58:15 am reply quote

UN=Unified Nutjobs

91 Ojoe  10/17/05 6:58:59 am reply quote

Iraq innocent country my ass, Hussein was paying families of 'suicide' bombers.

92 Always right  10/17/05 6:59:42 am reply quote

Human rights group, Amnesty Intl are so busy with Saddam, they can't be bothered with this guy, I guess.

93 SlothB77  10/17/05 6:59:52 am reply quote

I thought Mugabe liked Hitler. He is criticizing Bush and Blair, but usually when he invokes Hitler, it is with admiration. Now I'm confused.

94 bianchi_roadie  10/17/05 7:00:41 am reply quote

#73 MoonbatBane

Even some of the inmates over on Democrap Undergound understand that Mugabe is a monster.

On another board, I even read leftists badmouthing Chavez for embracing him. Wow, a guy is really bad to get leftists to criticize St. Hugo.

95 coulterclone  10/17/05 7:02:30 am reply quote

#85 Megan...When is it racist? It is racist when liberty involves the choice to work hard to get ahead and move away from crime ridden neighborhoods, personal accountability involves believing that others should be personally accountable too, and when civilized behavior includes insensitive unfair judgments against cultures in which violence rudeness and thievery are respected demonstrations of prowess.

/sarcasm off

96 Occasional Reader  10/17/05 7:05:35 am reply quote

#66 Terp Mole:

Fortunately, we can all take comfort in knowing that responsible Democratic leadership would steer clear of sharing the stage with hatemongers like Farrakhan.

Well... maybe not.

Unlike the Million Man March, the gathering this time not only includes women, but also elected officials such as the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Mel Watts (D-N.C.) who was one of several members of Congress to speak
97 PollyPrissypants  10/17/05 7:05:48 am reply quote

But at the black power rally in Washington this weekend they said he was a good guy.

"President Mugabe took the land back [for the people]." Mugabe is Right! Mugabe is Right!

I'm so confused.

[not]

98 Who Watches the Watchmen?  10/17/05 7:06:39 am reply quote

#9 Ward Cleaver

Why the f*ck doesn't somebody arrest Mugabe while he's in NYC, and charge him with crimes against humanity?

NIH...not invented here.

99 sentinel talos  10/17/05 7:07:42 am reply quote

This is rather ironic considering that Mugabe is one the closest incarnations of Hitler today for two reasons:
-He has harassed an entire enthic group, confisquated their property, and basically booted them out of the country claiming that they were money and land grubbing parasites and that their enthicity meant they were not citizens of his country.
-He is the only head of state that sports similar facial hair as the Fuhrer.

100 Who Watches the Watchmen?  10/17/05 7:08:34 am reply quote

This Bush = Hitler meme is just that--a meme. It spreads like a virus, along with its "worst president ever" counterpart. I believe at this point people are just repeating it the same way they repeat other memes, like "where's the beef?" and "who is John Galt?"

101 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 7:08:35 am reply quote

#85 Megan 10/17/2005 08:53AM PDT

OT

Since when is it racist to demand individual liberty, personal accountability, and civilized behavior?

Um, was that directed at me? I'm the only poster who explicitly mentioned race -- as an aside, actually.

The racism on the left takes many forms. One is the racism of low expectations (i.e., say blacks are not capable of succeeding in life unless the gov't subsidizes their lives and gives them various forms of preferences). Another is plantation racism that's rampant on the left (i.e., promise the same solutions to blacks that have been promised for decades, get the votes, fight any attempts to actually solve those problems with anything but handouts that create dependence and don't solve a thing, and absolutely never give power to a black person who is not entirely beholden to the lib machine). Yet another is racism against whites (i.e., poverty pimps such as Jesse Jackson, who may not be racist against blacks but certainly just uses black people's plight for his own personal gain).

Many in power on the left seem to want to keep blacks poor, dumb, disarmed (gun control laws in many urban areas), and beholden. Witness the real-world effects of most liberal programs, from welfare and ADC (destroyed black families and self-respect) to the ideology of victimhood (attacks the will to succeed), just for starters.

Or was that not directed to me? It's a topic I've discussed repeatedly with friends who happen to be black and who reject the racism of the left. The right has racists, too, but in reality, they are far easier to spot, far more marginalized, and more of an annoyance than a real threat to prosperity. That's why this is one of my soapboxes. Sorry if I got on it too long.

102 John B  10/17/05 7:08:53 am reply quote

My God, Hugo Chavez hugging Mugabe. Who would've thunk it possibe? (sarc.)

#48 Stringart:

It's ironic but many of the displaced white Zimbabwe farmers are being encouraged to settle and farm in Zambia where their knowledge and access to capital are needed.

"Choma, Zambia - White farmers who lost their land in Zimbabwe are helping neighbouring Zambia shore up its tobacco and maize production while steering clear of political controversy.

In the southern town of Choma, some 25 Zimbabwean farmers are leasing farmland to grow tobacco and maize for export and creating jobs for many poor Zambians and an "outbreak of money", officials say.

"Tobacco production has increased in the last three years because of the white Zimbabwean farmers who have introduced highly mechanized farming in Zambia," says Finance Minister Ngandu Magande.

"There is an outbreak of money in Choma," Magande adds.

"The Choma agriculturists are farming on long-term leases from individual Zambians who were unable to develop the land because of a lack of capital and equipment and are being financed through $25m in loans from US tobacco company Universal.

"Each farm employs about 120 local people," says Tim Carter, 47, a Zimbabwean who owns Nkanga Farms, a tract of land of around 1 200 acres west of Choma."

[Link: www.news24.com...]

An outbreak of money - imagine that!

103 MoonbatBane  10/17/05 7:09:58 am reply quote

Megan, reading your other posts, I'm sure yours wasn't directed at me. My bad...

104 greenmamba  10/17/05 7:11:51 am reply quote

#48 Stringart

didn't Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia and didn't their farmers grow enough food to not only feed Rhodesia, but the rest of Africa?

This is true. Interestingly, Rhodesian students attending university in South Africa felt that Rhodesia was much less racist than South Africa, and also that everything in Rhodesia was better than in SA. This naturally elicited the question, "well why are you at university here?"

After the Rhodesian revolution started in earnest, many of these students spent their summer holidays in the Rhodesian army and some did not return. Within a couple of years, Rhodesians earned the reputation of being awful racists, showing how persistent name calling works.

Sorry about digressing. None of Zimbabwe's woes are the fault of Mugabe, as he explains here:

Mugabe accuses Jews of trade plot.

105 Amy  10/17/05 7:13:35 am reply quote

greenmamba #59

That first link is really interesting, but I'm still dying to know just who was applauding... (though I can take some highly educated guesses).

The second link doesn't work for me. Comes up that it's not a link to a valid story.

106 opine6  10/17/05 7:18:19 am reply quote

As we say down South, the Un is about as useless as teats on a boar hog.

107 Orson Buggy  10/17/05 7:18:31 am