Another UN 'Bash Bush' Fest

/Hurls breakfast

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

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?

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

The UN needs more US citizens tax paid money!

Ditto Taxfree

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

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

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

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

In case I haven't, they are.

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.

#9 Ward Cleaver

Because he was in Rome.

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...]

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?

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 !

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

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

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.

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

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.

UN + Liberals = murdering tyrants

Liberals + murdering tyrant = mugabe

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...

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

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.

#12 TQC

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

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

Commies have Christmas?

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

GET THE US OUT OF THE UN

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Imagine the US not supporting the UN?

He will get a Nobel prize in 2006.

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

#18 mpax

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

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

/UN Secretary General Coughing Anus

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!

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

/not sarc- she really said that

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.

#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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

THE UN APPLAUDS!

#40 w-lover

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

#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.

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.

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

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.

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 ....

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

Ward-

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

"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)

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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!

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.

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.

We had the same psychotic rhetoric puked up at the Million M(o)an March by Farrakhan, et.al. on the D.C. mall this weekend.

Al Sharpton calls President Bush "evil...James Crow Jr., Esquire...broken levees are weapons of mass destruction...Our people are dying in Iraq and being drowned in New Orleans...We'll be in Baton Rouge on the 29th...this is the beginning of the regeneration of the movement for our people.

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).

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.....

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

#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...

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...

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?

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...)

Hitlerbushnazihitlerbushhalliburtonnazi.

Sharonhitlernazi....

Say something often enough and it becomes meaningless.

Or say something often enough and it becomes liturgy.

I can't remember which.

#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.

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.

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

.....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

"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'?

#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.

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

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.

#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!

UN delegates cheering dictators?

Naw. You're making this up.

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

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

#63 Mentat

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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?"

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.

UN=Unified Nutjobs

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

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

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.

#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.

#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

#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

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]

#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.

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.

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?"

#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.

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!

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

#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.

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.

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

Ol' Muggie didn't mention the starving populace in his "country" did he? Fucking asshole.

All you've got to do to get applause at a UN conference is declare yourself a Socialist. You could be standing up on stage, covered in blood, with a machete in one hand and the decapitated head of Mahatma Gandhi in the other, human entrails clenched in your teeth, a swastika tattooed backwards on your forehead, and if you yelled, "I call for a Socialist revolution!", you'd get a standing ovation.

Never mind the fact that Mugabe is himself living proof that Socialist-style "land redistribution" and anti-capitalist policies lead to complete economic ruin and mass starvation. Since the U.N. is now based on the axiom "Let Socialism equal good," the facts of the case are irrelevant to them.

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

Mugabe accuses Jews of trade plot.

I KNEW it! Look deeply enough into a problem, and you inevitably find that the Jooooooos™ are behind it!

/sarc

#105 Amy:

The link worked in preview but I see the posted link doesn't.

If you ghougle-news "mugabe" it's the 1st Reuters -UK link. Not a big deal, just less enthusiastic than BBC.

(I once worked out why these failures occur - googling it yourself is quicker.)

All the more reason why the UN should be abolished or G8 countries should stop funding it.

Ah, me...

Just another bit of Useless Nations dogma...

Said it before, but will continue to chant the mantra 'til it happens:

UN out of the US, US out of the UN...
UN out of the US, US out of the UN...
UN out of the US, US out of the UN...

/continuing to click my ruby Red Wings' until it happens...

The last one out of that UN building, please close the door and turn out the lights. Then turn it over to the city of New York as an office rental with the proceeds going back to the long suffering US taxpayers who pay for such pap.

#108 zombie

Never mind the fact that Mugabe is himself living proof that Socialist-style "land redistribution" and anti-capitalist policies lead to complete economic ruin and mass starvation. Since the U.N. is now based on the axiom "Let Socialism equal good," the facts of the case are irrelevant to them.

Had today's UN been around then, they doubtless would have cheered Stalin's forced collectivisation and would have joined him in blaming the Kulaks for any "localised food shortages".

how many jews live in zimbabwe, 6?

#11 Spiny Norman

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

Rotating title?

Tony Hall is a former Dem congressman from Dayton .. and is a 'social-liberal'.. was appointed by "Chimpy McBushitler" in 2002.

Take THAT, Moonbats!

Oh, wait... he's supposed to be an Evangelical, besides... well THAT ruins it!

Well I'm assuming those werent bodyguards... they were Farrakhan and Shabazz in disguise.
Reuters

Anyone else notice that the BBC changed their story to a toned down version?

P.S.:

It's no wonder Libs HATE Dubya... he appoints people who actually stand up for, and DO, something.

Alla while making Kerry and Kennedy look stupid.

Ah, if only Bush were Hitler, we would be getting stories like these from the government-controlled press...

"President Bush dismissed both houses of Congress today following last night's fire which destroyed the Capitol building. Several senators and representatives that protested the necessary action were detained by secret police for questioning..."

"The first issue of the United States' offical newspaper, The National Times, was published today from the facilities of the former New York Times. The New York offices were confiscated by government agents following the arrests of the New York Times management and staff on charges of subversion..."

"Officials in Washington today announced that the remaining provisions of the nation's constitution have been 'suspended indefinitely' in order to deal with the growing national crisis. It has also been revealed that all political parties have been abolished while the government formulates plans to resolve civil unrest..."

"By popular acclaim, President Bush has accepted a mandate to remain in office indefinitely, it was announced today. Dismissing the outmoded concept of 'term limits', Mr. Bush agreed to remain in the White House at least through 2012..."

"Former elected officials Edward 'Ted' Kennedy and Charles Schumer were shot while resisting arrest by government police, it was announced Friday..."

"Armed forces of the United States, including army, marine, and air force units, struck deep into Canada and Mexico early this morning in a necessary move to expand living space for U.S. citizens..."

That's what Bush would do if he were Hitler.

Now, go read a good history book and shut up.

THE UN IS RUN BY IDIOTS

The US accuses Mr Mugabe of starving his people and has said his presence at the food summit is "disheartening".

AND ONLY DUMBER IDIOTS (US TAX PAYERS) PAY THEM TO BE IDIOTS

I had no idea mugabe could speak. Amazing.
Is he also covered by the mother-wheel?

ANOTHER UN US BASH FEST SPONSORED BY THE US

Huh!?

Yes, exactly!

#118 barfly

Anyone else notice that the BBC changed their story to a toned down version?

Thanks for pointing that out. They must be reading LGF. They've changed the headline and added verbiage to more accurately reflect what happened.

Hilarious. I think / hope the criticism's getting to them.

We have failed the "global test".

(Hangs head in shame)

#78 coulterclone

LOL!

WTF?

Here's a link to it

On a Web site that's "Mega Resources for Scout Leaders"? What?

the united nations

[Link: www.michiganmilitia.com...]

Tons of links on this anti-freedom org loaded with all sorts of non-democratic rejects and funded by American tax payers

The UN is the greatest threat to American Freedom and Independence - Yet we continue to bouy their existence with legitimacy, funding and a place to live - the USA!

Self-Destructive - anyone?

#120 byteboy

"Former elected officials Edward 'Ted' Kennedy and Charles Schumer were shot while resisting arrest by government police, it was announced Friday..."

Like they say, every cloud has a silver lining...

I thought that a UN audience only applauds a speaker when he's wearing a gun and rabbits on about olive branch and freedom fighters. Maybe it's nearly as good to thieve land from its rightful owners and ensure that half the population starve.

#120 Byteboy

That's EXCELLENT.. but did I miss the part about Bolton charging into Annan's office and arresting him for his own protection.

Even a blind pig...

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

This is reasonable. Of course, the other reason is that those countries have no property rights, and are run by kleptocratic Marxist regimes.

Don't ya just love the UN?

I thought we sent Bolton to beat the crap out of guys like this?

There once were some Nations United
To give power to those who were slighted
But somewhere on the way
Things went strangly astray
Now it's evil the UN has knighted

Was a time that the UN would act
For the downtrodden - now that's a fact
What does it do now?
Ignore Darfur - Holy Cow!
But Mugabe's a headliner act!

And it's not just one renegade case
It's the trend of its socialist pace
Pick a despot at random
And you'll see he's in tandem
With 80 percent of the place

What to do? - you might ask - rightly so
Pull our money and tell them to go?
As for me I'm fed up
As in half-empty cup
Bolton, tell them to shape up or blow!

#104 greenmamba

Mugabe accuses Jews of trade plot.

Well, why didn't I think of that? It's so obvious.

/slapping self upside the head

#79 right wing zephyr 10/17/2005 08:50AM PDT

"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'?

Mugabe's visit to Caracas

Is Venezuela's Hugo Chavez being inspired by Mugabe's antics?

Bolton needs to go the Moynihan route as UN Ambassador and constantly reiteriate that Mugabe and his ilk are true scum.

Where have all the (white) Zimbabwean's gone ?

Murdered

150-400 per year

Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand

Mozambique, and Namibia

#135 jamgarr

Wow, lizard limerick poet laureate!

Try reading the headlines:
Anger over Mugabe tirade in Rome
You're right, we should get out of the UN and be pinhead isolationists, except for spreading democracy via war, cause no one can live up to our pristine standards and we don't need the rest of the world, as long as we get enuff oil.

#48 stringart

Zimbabwe is overdue for new leadership--rogue regime rollback, if you will--where are the enlightened African leaders to bring on the neo-Rhodesia, where people can aspire to eat something other than roots & leaves?

For the adhd types, here's an excerpt:

Some delegates to the Rome meeting applauded Mr Mugabe's condemnation of the Western leaders on several occasions during his speech and then at the end.

#141 jakester

There ought to be anger over Mugabe's BS. You missed the fact Mugabe is persona non-grata even in "pristine standard" Europe, except when on tyrant-loving UN "business".

How is John Bolton doing? Was he there? Did he make any statements?

Good to see you posting, Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus!

The Beeb has a *surprise* tsk-tsk'ing piece on Mugabe's speech, with a priceless picture of Mugabe and Chevez en flagrante:

"Love ... is a many-splendored thing"

#141 Jokester:

Try reading the headlines: "Anger over Mugabe tirade in Rome"
You're right, we should get out of the UN and be pinhead isolationists, except for spreading democracy via war, cause no one can live up to our pristine standards and we don't need the rest of the world, as long as we get enuff oil.

Oh, dear: in case you need the tutorial (and it would appear that you do), one cannot be an "isolationist" at the same time they are practicing empire building.

Now go take your meds like a goof little boy, and try talking to us again when you aren't having a tantrum.

What should we do Alegrias, invade Zimbabwe? The UN is supposed to be a forum for all leaders, even contemptible ones like Mugabe. He won't be around too much longer, I'll bet. For all the UN faults, it's the only world forum we have and we should quit being a baby cause it doesn't behave the way we like. It seems, next to whining about the MSM, fuming about the UN seems to be the main hobby around here. Could it be the UN isn't perfect cause the world and we aren't perfect too?

Hey sharona,
don't patronize me, you mindless droid!

Quick question-

I live in a neighborhood where the little kids “trick or treat for UNICEF” on Halloween.

As I despise the UN, what’s the story on Unicef?

Does it actually accomplish anything of any benefit to children, as claimed? Or am I just funding Kofi and Kojo’s extravagant life style?

BTW: What do you give the kid instead of cash? How about a John Bolton bobble-head doll? Suggestions?

#148 Jakester , I allow you to claim imperfection for yourself;-)

150 Blue Chip
Re. Unicef: Here's a good place to start reading.

As far as Mugabe's tirade, Who cares what the gasbag says. He's a disgrace to his Nation, and an even bigger disgrace to his Church. For some reason, news articles always have to comment on his status as a Roman Catholic, but his actions as President don't come anywhere close to the message of "Love your neighbor as yourself".

Mugabe is an evil demagogue with a bloodthirst for power. If I were GWB or Blair, I would take pride in his insults. You can always tell more about a person by looking at their enemies than by looking at their friends.

148 Jakester

For all the UN faults, it's the only world forum we have and we should quit being a baby cause it doesn't behave the way we like.

Jakester, the UN is counter-productive. We, as in the world's population, would be better off if it did not even exist.

Why should we quit griping about this corrupt, failed organization just because its "the only world forum we have"? Thats defeatism. Why complain. Nothing will change anyways.

Using your logic, the Left might as well quit griping about GWB, because he's the only president we have.

#148 Jakester

For all the UN faults, it's the only world forum we have and we should quit being a baby cause it doesn't behave the way we like.

What do we need a world forum for? That's what foreign ministers and ambassadors are for - direct contact between two nations. They can ask a mutually respected third nation to mediate if desired.

It's not that the UN doesn't behave the way I would like - it's because equal weight is given to dictators and thugs as is given to leaders of western-style democracies and republics. No one should pretend for an instant that a Mugabe or Kim Il Jong has anything to teach the world.

#138 Gordon 10/17/2005 11:18AM PDT

Bolton needs to go the Moynihan route as UN Ambassador and constantly reiteriate that Mugabe and his ilk are true scum.

I don't know about Moynihan, but yes Bolton does.

Wait, did I just do that? Who are you and what did you do with Gordon?
___________________________
And for whoever is singing the praises of the UN:

A List of UN Security Council Resolutions against Israel 1955-1992

Show me some resolutions against the killing of innocent Israelis.

And lots of good reading here.

The infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution was passed in 1975 when Yitzhak Rabin was Prime Minister. Describing the circumstances of the passage of the resolution, a representative in the chamber stated that "hatred was crawling on the floor." Although the resolution was rescinded in 1991, anti-Semitism in UN fora is still a force to be reckoned with, bearing in mind that 25 Member States voted against repealing the resolution and 13 abstained.

If not for US vetoes, they would have even more against Israel.

Oh my goodness, I've found one:
UN Condemns Hezbollah Attack on Israeli Border
WoW.

...and Mugabe then led the delegates in the protest cheer:

Saddam, Hussein, will rise to rule again.
Saddam, Hussein, will rise to rule again.
Saddam, Hussein, will rise to rule again.
and on and on and on...

Mr. Mugabe,

Don't come running to us, then, when all those white farmers you stole land from invade your estate and slice your racist neck open.

kthnx

Mugabe has the drill down pat; rail against the West, compare Bush to Hitler, embrace Castro/Chavez, bask in the applause of the cads and dolts from other Third World shitholes. Works every time.

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.

So, I bet that made him feel tingly all over:

"Well, we've distributed the farmlands previously owned by the racist, colonial, imperialist white devils, who just happened to have made us a net exporter of agricultural products.
Of course, we now import millions of tons of food every year, but, boy, we sure showed whitey."

Another nail in the coffin of the failed UN experiment. Who were "we" to think that this organization would allow a killer/dictator travel on "diplomatic" "UN" business be allowed a pass to go to Italy, a part of the EU, where he is banned from travel, and deliver the most foul mouthed speech by a world leader/head of sate, towards the US and UK. Did he openly declare war against the US and UK with this speech? Or did he say more or less he was supporting the other side in the GWoT.

Did Chavez or Iran slip this man some money? He is the master of a failed state. He is the master in his own mind a meglomanica like Mr Chavez of which this world would be a better place if these two were not part of, "acting" as leaders.

Basically he is saying he despises the US,but Africa still needs the US money...and we,the idiots ,have pledged $15 billion for african aid!

Hugo Chavez, of course, congratulated his African brother after such a startling performance...

The UN has proven they are have no power. Bush is eeeeeevil, dictator who starves and murders his people is good (Saddam). Why are we invilved with this scum still?

What's with wikipedia calling every shithole run by a 2 bit dictator, a 'Republic'?

Someone get this man a Nobel Peace Prize. Since I'm sure this was also very eloquently worded, why don't we also give him one for Literature as well.

#141 Jakester 10/17/2005 11:42AM PDT

Hey troll,

The reason we can't stand the UN is that just about the ONLY countries they ever criticize and condemn are the US and Israel. Most member-states of the UN are dictatorships. And it's also one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet. It does FAR more harm than good. Even UNICEF is getting politicized.

But hey, just ignore all that and scream that we're all war-mongering isolationists. That position has nothing to do with reality, but apparently it makes you feel better (i.e., superior), so have at it!

I wonder which side of the fence Mugabi's opinion of Israel falls?

#138 Gordon 10/17/2005 11:18AM PDT

Bolton needs to go the Moynihan route as UN Ambassador and constantly reiteriate that Mugabe and his ilk are true scum.

Works for me -- we can only hope!

#167 farmer of truth 10/17/2005 02:50PM PDT

I wonder which side of the fence Mugabi's opinion of Israel falls?

It's all the Jooooos fault.

(Not sure what that source is, but it's what I could come up with quickly.)

Not a valid interpretation no mention of Carl Rove.....and yes the UN must go bye bye!

Its business as usual at the UN. Cheering Mugabe is no surprise. Its a cosy dictators club. That is why in UN eyes, Muhgabe, Saddam Hussein, Ahmadinejad etc are heroes, and some of the worst dictatorships on the planet find themselves on human rights panels to cast judgement on Israel, the US and UK. What a topsy-turvy world we live in today. The UN has become a byword for mind-blowing corruption - Kofi and Koji being the classic examples and has there ever been a worse UN General Secretary than the Coffeepot himself - turning Nelsonian blind eyes to genocide, but never turn their backs on a fast buck. These corrupt hypocrites of the UN don't care about the suffering of this world. Their cares are for those who cause mass suffering, and just imagine, had Hitler been alive today, he would be hero-worshipped as a messiah by the UN apparatchicks.

League of Democracies anyone?

It's time for UN to change its name to something more descriptive of its nature, like United Thugocracies, or something like this.

#42 Occasional Reader
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".

This presents a dilemma for the leftists at the UN. Wasn't St. Pancake Rachael Corrie trying to stop just such bulldozing demolition. How are they to contort themselves to support Mugabe's bulldozing, and also support St. Pancake's opposition of bulldozing?

Mugabe's big mistake was driving off the white farmers and replacing them with people who did not know how to farm. He would have been better off forcing the original farmers to work as his slaves farming their own farm. Unless his long term goal was famine induced mass murder. IMHO

#148 jakester

We don’t need to be a UN member in order to be non-isolationist and I don’t think that anyone is upset because the UN isn’t prefect or doesn’t behave the way we want. The UN has simply become a joke that doesn’t meet any standards at all. So why patronize a bull shit organization? The process of bull shitting simply isn’t that important.

#174 surrounded by moonbats

This presents a dilemma for the leftists at the UN. Wasn't St. Pancake Rachael Corrie trying to stop just such bulldozing demolition. How are they to contort themselves to support Mugabe's bulldozing, and also support St. Pancake's opposition of bulldozing?

That's an easy fix. If the white man does it, it's wrong. More of the lowered expectations of Third World countries who get a 'pass' because of colonialism or racism or poverty or multiculturalism or today is Monday or...

#28-mglazer
GET THE US OUT OF THE UN
I agree But how about the other side of the coin
GET THE UN OUT OF THE US

Hey Mugabe! Does the name Chauchesku (sp?) mean anything to you. Don't turn your back on your populace, Motherf*cker....not for a second.

e4-effing-c

#179 energyforcapital

His name is a bugger to spell, huh?
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

G'day from Down Under - very early!

G'day whoever is around - I also posted this on the dead thread

I'm proud of our Aussie in the UN - the only one with the guts to walk out!

As I'm supposed to be doing some stuff for my Rotary Club now I'm home from work, and I can't get motivated,I thought I'd visit you lot now while the sun is still shining outside

Is this the Dead Thread? No, well I don't care! It is for me!

Just to let you know

Australia was the ONLY country in the UN to walk out of Robert Mugabe's speech in Rome - as it was a speech for WORLD FOOD DAY, our UN Ambassador thought the speech (rant)was highly inappropriate.

As well as this, we are the ONLY country in the world trying to bring Robert Mugabe to the International Court to make him pay for what he has done to Zimbabwe

Now back to Rotary stuff - seeyalater!

Mugabe is the epicenter

Mr. Mugabe is the epicenter. He starves his own people of food, water and medicine (the United States has given an estimated $110 million in food aid alone). Indeed, since the World Food Summit of 2002, the Mugabe regime has: destroyed the lives, homes and jobs of nearly 3 million people (or one-fifth of the population); forced 3.5 million to flee to South Africa, Namibia and other neighboring nations; pillaged its $700 million-a-year agricultural sector, which barely brings in $200 million now; created what experts are calling the "fastest-shrinking economy" in the world; created a water and energy crisis; put in motion a public-health crisis.

The U.N. Security Council has the necessary tools to take quick and decisive action. Do the members have the requisite political wherewithal?