Posted on 04/17/2006 5:18:28 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Friday accused the West of hypocrisy for condemning Iran's nuclear programme and described the U.S-led military campaign in Iraq as "genocide".
Mugabe, himself at odds with the West over his forcible redistribution of white-owned farms and allegations of human rights abuse, said only those countries without nuclear weapons could sit in judgement over Iran.
Speaking to visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Mugabe said:
"There are those who are accusing you of what you do not have ... also accusing you of an intention which perhaps you do not have of wanting to have nuclear arms.
"And they have the nuclear arms, they have nuclear bombs, they have used them. Who is judging them for the genocide they committed, the genocide they are committing in Iraq today?" he said in remarks broadcast on Zimbabwe's state television.
The U.S and other Western nations accuse Iran of seeking to master enrichment technology to build atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies.
Mugabe, 82 and in power since Zimbabwe's independence from Britain in 1980, says the former colonial power and the U.S. have led a propaganda campaign against his country.
"We believe in a free world ... where we do not have demagogues and international dictators who want to control our political systems in order for them to control our economies," he said on Friday.
Mugabe has sought to strengthen ties with Asian and Middle Eastern countries in recent years under what he calls a "Look East policy.
He charges that his local and foreign opponents have sabotaged Zimbabwe's economy as payback for his land reforms, which he argues were necessary to restore land 'stolen' from indigenous blacks during colonialism.
There's a shocker!!
Kinda hard to tell what our government is dong nowadays...certainly not operating in the best interest of the United States...hmmmm...hard to tell what country they are really working for....well, at least, we know their own political power is at the top of the list...anything else is a guess.
All,of the crazies want Iran to have a nuke. they know they will get one too. If Iran gets a nuke they are really truly too stupid to stop from using it.
From the "with friends like this" department....
Hope that high level Iranian diplomat brought his own meals because there are none to be had in the paradise known as, Mugabeland.
Their admiration for President Mugabe of Zimbabwe is well known. It is from him that they obtained the ideas that lead to their well known Eminent Domain decision.
President Mugabe may be "at odds with the West over his forcible redistribution of white-owned farms and allegations of human rights abuse" but not with Justices Stevens, Breyer, Souter, Ginsberg and Kennedy.
These Justices are fond of consulting foreign law in rendering their decisions. I'm sure they will want to consult with President Ahmadinejad of Iran. They will gain countless ideas from him and from current Iranian law.
Iran and Zimbabwe are fertile fields for Justices Stevens, Breyer, Souter, Ginsberg and Kennedy and their application of foreign legal concepts to their interpretation of American law.
I'm sure they just can't wait to get busy!
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