Hacking off women's limbs and burning them alive makes you a hero?

*sigh*

and this surprises you because . . . ?

Mugabe was for change before change was cool

Tell me why we give one cent to these assholes.

Ahh, fascism. It's alive and thriving on the African continent.

Compared with the former government of Rwanda, or Idi Amin, ....

I. Am. Speechless.

Then again, what more could anyone expect....they ALL behave the same way. I think I'm going to be ill : /

Thanks, Jimmah!

Andrew Young, too.

Bet that meeting looked like the "Bar Scene" in the first STAR WARS,

-S-

Mugabe is as much a "hero" as Al Capone. In fact, I think Capone was cleaner and nicer.

re: #11 Honorary Yooper

Mugabe is as much a "hero" as Al Capone. In fact, I think Capone was cleaner and nicer.

Al Capone was a community organizer.

Mugabe: He's also Clean and Articulate

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Hero.

Let that sink in folks.

Mugabe, who is nothing more than a dictator having stolen democracy from Zimbabwe, is a hero to these tools at the AU. And we're supposed to think that the AU will force Mugabe from office because Mugabe stole the election?

Isn't it amazing how Mugabe could declare victory hours after the runoff votes were cast, but he never provided results of the original election?

Of course, it helps when you terrorize the opposition and force them into hiding and into the Dutch Embassy.

The AU and South Africa in particular have done nothing but enable Mugabe in his totalitarian power grab.

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

In Chicago.

All Mugabe did for Zimbabwe was enact the grandiose plans that Barrack Obama's dad wrote up for Kenya back in the '60's. And it really seems to be working out well.
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At an African Union summit meeting in Egypt, the corrupt leaders of Africa rallied behind Robert Mugabe: Robert Mugabe hailed a hero at African Union summit.

Mugabe passed the global test! Hooray!

/

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

You're very "on" today, Rick!

re: #18 Occasional Reader

You're very "on" today, Rick!

just sayin.

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

So is Barack Obama. In Chicago no less.

“He was elected, he took an oath, and he is here with us, so he is President and we cannot ask him more,” said Omar Bongo, President of Gabon

You just can't make this stuff up.

They all dream of being Robert Mugabe; corrupt, brutal, and in power as long as they care to be.

So...why is Mugabe an issue all of a sudden? He's been running Zimbabwe into the ground for decades, destroying his people and his economy. Is it that people think this is the last chance to condemn him, after having let him run amok for so long?

re: #14 lawhawk

Isn't it amazing how Mugabe could declare victory hours after the runoff votes were cast

Well, he was the only candidate (having terrorized the opposition into withdrawing). He could have declared victory hours before the votes were cast.

Anyone think this will make the US reconsider the level of foreign aid it supplies to 'our friends the Egyptians.'

/I didn't think so.

Vote or Die

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

Mugabe's an issue since he lost the elections a few months back and has been trying to overturn the results ever since. First, he refused to release the results of his election against Tsvangirai, and then demanded recounts - again never releasing the results of the presidential election. He then formed thug squads to attack opposition leaders and harass them into silence.

And he succeeded.

Putting it bluntly. Mugabe killed democracy in Zimbabwe.

Next on the agenda for Mugabe, a Nobel Peace Prize, an Honorary PhD from Columbia University, and a free election certification from Jimmy Carter.

re: #21 Occasional Reader

“He was elected, he took an oath, and he is here with us, so he is President and we cannot ask him more,” said Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
You just can't make this stuff up.

Al Gabon was unavailable for comment.

re: #23 Occasional Reader

He declared victory in the original elections too - refusing to release the results. It's easy to declare victory when you control the entire process.

Well, at the very least, Mugabe is old, so hopefully he'll be eating s**t in a grave someday soon. I certainly wish we could help the process along with a couple of cruise missiles...

Imagine what this world would be like if the UN itself wasn't full of fascists and socialists, and an international body like that actually stood up to murderous thugs like Mugabe. What a strange, wonderful world that might be.

“We have even received Mugabe as a hero,” he told reporters. “We understand the attacks (by the international community) but this is not the way they should react. What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.”

When you're an African politician this is how you diplomatically say, "Hey, at least he's not eating people."

re: #25 Shug

Vote or Die

p diddy doggie doo says vote obama or die!
What does he mean?

Of course he's a hero to them. He has gotten away with more corruption, thievery, and brutality than the rest of the tinhorn tyrants put together, quite a feat all things considered.

Can I say Selected not Elected or does that only apply to George Bush ?

/

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

Al Capone was in the "wealth re-distribution" business.

Mugabe's election is a fraud.........it wasn't certified by Jimmuah Carter, thus it is an election fraud.

I agree...this is a huge travesty of democratic principles...subverting democratic process so one could be elected as the leader...

This is so obvious..

re: #31 DaChew

“We have even received Mugabe as a hero,” he told reporters. “We understand the attacks (by the international community) but this is not the way they should react. What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.”

When you're an African politician this is how you diplomatically say, "Hey, at least he's not eating people."

Idi Amin liked white folks.

at best a sham, at worst a travesty of democracy.

At best a sham?

What kindness and generousity the writer is showing Mugabe.

I would think arresting your opponent and having his wife burned to death would remove any doubts as to it being merely "a sham."

re: #34 Shug

I think the democrat party in the U.S. holds the copyright on that- better check with them.

re: #36 Avery Bullard

Mugabe's election is a fraud.........it wasn't certified by Jimmuah Carter, thus it is an election fraud.

I hope Jimmy does certify this one...to show the fool he is!

To the UN Mugabe is the idealization of a political leader.

re: #40 CIA Reject

I think the democrat party in the U.S. holds the copyright on that- better check with them.

Specially in Chicago!

The Chicago Machine!

re: #30 BGOH

Well, at the very least, Mugabe is old, so hopefully he'll be eating s**t in a grave someday soon.

But what a shame to have dictators like Arafat and Castro live to old age and die in power.

re: #27 Mich-again

Next on the agenda for Mugabe, a Nobel Peace Prize, an Honorary PhD from Columbia University, and a free election certification from Jimmy Carter.

Or maybe Jimmy will expedite things by just issuing an election certification gift certificate; good for "certifying" one election, without the Carter Center having to send anyone to any of those god-awful places.

re: #26 lawhawk

Mugabe's an issue since he lost the elections a few months back and has been trying to overturn the results ever since. First, he refused to release the results of his election against Tsvangirai, and then demanded recounts - again never releasing the results of the presidential election. He then formed thug squads to attack opposition leaders and harass them into silence.

And he succeeded.

Putting it bluntly. Mugabe killed democracy in Zimbabwe.

He killed democracy in Zimbabwe a long time ago, it seems; he's been dictator there forever. The fact that his latest electoral dumbshow got sufficiently out of hand for him to act up with rather obvious brutality doesn't really alter the fact that mourning the death of democracy in Zimbabwe is a little behind-hand.

One gets the distinct impression of the world exclaiming over the skull Zimbabwean democracy the way Hamlet exclaims over the skull of Yorick in the gravedigger scene.

This is a big F-U to the rest of the world.
And another demonstration of the utter worthlessness of the UN.

re: #44 Silhouette

You're right. In a better world, these guys would die in their "prime," at the hands of their own people.

re: #26 lawhawk

Putting it bluntly. Mugabe killed democracy in Zimbabwe.

More likely this:

Mugabe killed Zimbabwe.

Another hero of the left!

re: #43 Psaturn

LOL!

European schizophrenia.

The AU? The African Union? Not to be too abrupt here, folks, but fuck the AU; they've done NOTHING to alleviate the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa.
So in the words of that "wordsmith" Markos Zuniga Kos "Screw Them".

re: #35 Son of the Black Dog

Al Capone was in the "wealth re-distribution" business.

He was definitely about Change You Can Believe In, too.

Early OT:

Also little-known is the story of McCain's youngest child. As a result of a 1991 Cindy McCain visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, the McCains adopted an infant daughter dying from a host of health issues. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save the little girl's life, so the McCains, already the parents of six children, brought the child home to America, and paid for desperately needed surgeries and years of rehabilitation. That child is their teenage daughter Bridget. In fact, there was a second infant girl brought back from the orphanage that the McCains saved. She ended up being adopted by one of McCain's aides, Wes Gullett, and his wife. "We were called at midnight by Cindy," Gullett has stated, and "five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the LA airport."

Madonna Jolie, INC not impressed.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #53 realwest

The AU? The African Union? Not to be too abrupt here, folks, but fuck the AU; they've done NOTHING to alleviate the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa.
So in the words of that "wordsmith" Markos Zuniga Kos "Screw Them".

Alleviating the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa would require imposition of the oppressive hegemony of Western values upon the rich indigenous tribal cultures.

How dare you, sir.

re: #46 buzzsawmonkey

One gets the distinct impression of the world exclaiming over the skull Zimbabwean democracy the way Hamlet exclaims over the skull of Yorick in the gravedigger scene.

Is that from Weekend at Bernie's?

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

Alleviating the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa would require imposition of the oppressive hegemony of Western values upon the rich indigenous tribal cultures.

How dare you, sir.

Hear, hear! As I wrote yesterday: Eating is just a social construct.

Do the folks who proclaim Mugabe a hero have their own my.barackobama page?

Robert Mugabe, like the soon to be nuclear Iranian Ayatollahs, is a legacy of the Carter Presidency.

re: #57 Occasional Reader

You owe me a keyboard.

re: #55 Ben Hur

Great article, thanks. It's telling that McCain has not dragged his adopted daughter out into the spotlight for PR purposes. The man actually has a sense of honor; something that's been forgotten in great swaths of our culture.

re: #58 Occasional Reader

Judging from FBV's response, there is a reference here that I am absolutely not getting.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed "emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at number 4. Here's the list.

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

re: #58 Occasional Reader
and
re: #59 JammieWearingFool

I sense a lack of a postive response to my post at #
53! And I don't understand that at all!

re: #59 JammieWearingFool

Do the folks who proclaim Mugabe a hero have their own my.barackobama page?

Don't give them ideas.

re: #55 Ben Hur

And note how the Dems have lately gone strangely silent on the whole "politicians who support the war should be willing to send their own sons and daughters to fight in Iraq" meme. Gosh, I wonder why?

Next up, T-shirts.
Viva La Revulsion

OT

Two Israeli POWs Murdered In Captivity

Jerusalem - In a dramatic statement issued to the press at midnight Israel time, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued a clear statement that two Israeli POWs were executed in captivity by Hezbollah and that they "are no longer alive". In Mr. Olmert's words, "The goal and the assumption according to which we have been acting the whole time was that we are acting to bring back people who are still alive. Today, we know for certain that there is no such chance for this."

Two years ago, Rev. Jesse Jackson, acting as an independent envoy, along with the Red Cross and the UN, all confirmed that Israeli POW's Regev and Goldwasser were alive.

re: #49 Psaturn
Precisely and well said.

The short answer is: If you support Mugave, we won't give you a dime in aid. No food, funding, anything. Let the oil rich Saudi's donate (yea, right) and see how that goes. Time we take care of those who at leats have some idea of Democracy, and stop supporting thugs still in the stone age.

You know things are bad when the apartheid state of Rhodesia is fondly recalled as "the good old days."

re: #60 Dirk Diggler

Robert Mugabe, like the soon to be nuclear Iranian Ayatollahs, is a legacy of the Carter Presidency.
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The gift that just keeps on giving, Carter sure cast a long shadow from 4 years in the late seventies, just imagine the repercussions of an Obama presidency!

Real Hero:

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

One woman at a church in Harare held her 11-month-old baby, who had casts on his tiny legs. She said that after her husband, an opposition organizer, went into hiding she had gotten word that ZANU-PF supporters were looking for her, too. She fled with the boy.

She returned home the next day, though, and that is when “the youth,” as foot soldiers of the ruling party are often called, came looking for her, she said. They snatched her son from the bed and hurled him onto the concrete floor, shattering his legs, she said.

And our lovely liberals are too busy worrying their heads over Bush listening to their boring phone calls.

re: #66 lawhawk

Isn't it a given that the DNC nominee for President can pretty well expect to collect the endorsement of the most odious dictators and thugs in the world?

After all, it's their badge demonstrating their world view and foreign policy 'wisdom'.

re: #65 realwest

re:

This what happens when ruled become the rulers.
Wasn't Zimbabwe called Rhodesia at one time. Ruled by the white minority, all the uproar, and then blacks took over. See what happened.
Of course, now, billions of American aid will somehow be funneled into Zimbabwe.

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

Judging from FBV's response, there is a reference here that I am absolutely not getting.

Eh? FBV was laughing at my Weekend at Bernie's joke. "Eating is just a social construct" was something I came up with yesterday as a mock "deconstructionist" apologetics for Mugabe. The idea of consuming enough calories to sustain life is just Western cultural hegemony; Mugabe has bravely transcended that paradigm.

re: #70 realwest

Precisely and well said.

Thanks!

I think that we miss the point. Mugabe is an economic wizard.
See, the White Farmer Class was the underpining of the economy.
He sent his maurading goons to those farms , to kill & drive the farmers off of the land.
He thereby trashed the entire economic struture. Genius!

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

OT

Two Israeli POWs Murdered In Captivity

Probably tortured as well.

re: #64 J.S.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed
"emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled
with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst
Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at
number 4. Here's the list.

From the article - Dictator #1 is Ethiopia's Mengistu (he even sounds like a disease) who's in exile in Zimbabwe.

Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe, where he now has permanent residence, after being ousted in 1991. The Ethiopean government has been unsuccessfully trying for years to get Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to extradite Mengistu so he can be tried for crimes against humanity.

re: #65 realwest

Okay, I updinged you, now settle down!

:P

So....is Bono paying attention? Or does he still want more of our hard-earned dollars to be poured into the African cesspool?

Bobby, you clown, you!

When are you going to stop hiding all your secrets from me? Don't you see that the little people might actually vote me out of office?

the people of the country are sooooo much better off under Mugabe than they were when it was a British colony.

wait. they're not? oh my.....

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

OT

Two Israeli POWs Murdered In Captivity

They could have been freed--or murdered in captivity with less torture--if Olmert had shown some balls in the first place.

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir) Motherfuckers. Sorry, that seemed to be the only appropriate appellation to that story.
WHEN THE HELL IS THE WORLD GOING TO WAKE UP?!

re: #81 NJDhockeyfan

Probably tortured as well.

Dont be silly. Only the US tortures people and most of that happens in Gitmo.

/

re: #67 Occasional Reader

And note how the Dems have lately gone strangely silent on the whole "politicians who support the war should be willing to send their own sons and daughters to fight in Iraq" meme. Gosh, I wonder why?

They've gone strangely silent on a whole host of things that they once considered requirements for leadership.

But they will never apply Bush's litmus test to the Messiah.

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Mr. Olmert's words, "The goal and the assumption according to which we have been acting the whole time was that we are acting to bring back people who are still alive. Today, we know for certain that there is no such chance for this."

Once again, Olmert sounds like he's baffled by how Hizballah could have let him down.

These murdered men deserve better.

re: #80 opnion

I think that we miss the point. Mugabe is an economic wizard.
See, the White Farmer Class was the underpining of the economy.
He sent his maurading goons to those farms , to kill & drive the farmers off of the land.
He thereby trashed the entire economic struture. Genius!

He imposed his own sort of Windfall profits tax in those farmers

Can you imagine that poor continent if George Bush hadn't been elected? No American President has ever done so much for Africa. Where are his kudo's?

*crickets*

re: #85 HugoChavez

Testing new avatar.

re: #85 HugoChavez

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Once again, Olmert sounds like he's baffled by how Hizballah could have let him down.

These murdered men deserve better.

I'm wondering if in the cabinet meetings, if any of Olmert's cronies ever pipes up with "Hey, its almost like we can't trust these guys."

re: #92 Shug

He imposed his own sort of Windfall profits tax in those farmers

Excellent point.

And it worked so well for agro in Zimbabwe, why not try it here for energy?

re: #64 J.S.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed "emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at number 4. Here's the list.

I'm looking at the list and the similarities to Washington, Jefferson, John and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and all the other bloodthirsty warmongering butchers spawned by the colonial period on the North American continent are palpable. Just palpable.

I am so disgusted I can hardly breathe.

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

Testing new avatar.

How old? Congratulations and may all your troubles be littles ones.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

aaawwwwwwwww!

re: #83 Occasional Reader HEY! I can't be bought off with an upding (which, btw, isn't there!).
I can't take this shit anymore - that Mugabe is STILL murdering his own people and the AFRICAN UNION just doesn't give shit, and the fact that those two members of the IDF were murdered by Hamas just gets me a little crazy(ier) today.

re: #99 buzzsawmonkey

I'm
looking at the list and the similarities to Washington, Jefferson, John
and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and all the other
bloodthirsty warmongering butchers spawned by the colonial period on
the North American continent are palpable. Just palpable.

And what discussion of the worst dictators would be complete without the obligatory Bush-bashing?

For Dr. Ethiopia to label Bokassa a cannibal is just out of order. He is copying elements of western propaganda aimed at painting us as uncivilised savages. How is George Bush doing? What is the difference between him & Mugabe? The difference is that his country has not been sanctioned by the west but hurricane Katrina exposed him for the tyranny & injustice he has visited on his people.

re: #74 Sir Lurksalot

Actually, as demonstrated numerous times in the past, the Dems do not really care about what happens to others if the plight is not something they can exploit for political purposes.

The same mindset that brought Carter into power, that is behind the assinine policy views of Obama, directly contributed to millions of deaths in SE Asia in the mid / late 1970's. This after the 'expert' on the region, John Effin Kerry, testified that at most 3 or 4 thousand South Vietnamese would need assistance once the war was over. How about over a million dead, nearly two million in re-education camps, another million plus boat people and that doesn't count the Khmer Rouge wiping out 1/3rd of the Cambodian population while the Donks could care less.

Need we remember the complete lack of action by Clinton during the Rwanda massacre's? Over 800K dead while the UN and US did nothing.

Hell, even when Americans die, the Dems aren't interested in addressing the cause, they are more interested in how they can exploit it for power.

The Dems are the party of moral and ethical bankruptcy.

re: #101 Ben Hur

re: #100 Dianna

I am so disgusted I can hardly breathe.

You need to breathe! We love you too much!

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky
Ah, just perfect newsjunie, perfect I say!
And thanks for the e-mail!

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

Cute baby!

re: #101 Ben Hur

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Israel deserves better. And the latest prisoner swap will lead to only more misery.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky
I'm still seeing Dog as my avatar and not new Granddaughter.

What am I doing wrong? When I click on Avatar it shows Granddaughter but not on comment.

What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.

Well, there's no African more qualified than Omar Bongo to serve as a role model for Mugabe.

Interesting that Africa's most successful President/Tyrant views hacking up opposition members and immolating the wives of political opponents as "a little clumsy." If anyone needed an explanation of why Africa remains an pitiable hell hole, this should suffice.

With a little coaching from Bongo, however, there's every reason to hope that Mugabe's ongoing rape of his country and his people can be performed with a bit more nuance and finesse.

re: #111 VegasRick

Wow, the fwench had some real bullets! Who knew!?

Obviously the French didn't know either.

re: #101 Ben Hur

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

"The barrel goes towards the enemy? Sacre bleu!"

That Mugabe is a monster is evident to any objective observer.
But Obama's friend/cousin, Raila Odinga is not much better.
He just does not have full authority in Kenya.
After he lost the presidential election, among other things, he had his thugs burn down Christian chrches, with the Christians in them!
In 2006, Obama went to Kenya & campaigned for this guy.
I know that this is old news, but damn!

re: #77 smokefire Uh, sorry there - but the Blacks who took over didn't rule the newly named nation; the corrupt killing mofos who led the ruled still rule the ruled.

re: #98 Occasional Reader

"That didn't work, so let's do it some more!"

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

refresh/reload...it's adorable. Congrats!