Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, seen here on December 11,
has accused the United States of urging African nations to topple him,
adding that none were "brave enough to do that," state media reported Friday.
(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
Posted on 12/19/2008 8:21:23 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AFP) – President Robert Mugabe declared Friday that "Zimbabwe is mine" and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks.
Addressing his ZANU-PF party's annual conference amid a ruinous political crisis and a deadly cholera epidemic, Mugabe returned to the kind of defiance he has often shown in the face of mounting criticism.
"I will never, never, never never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British, Britain for the British," Mugabe told his party's annual conference.
The veteran leader in the former British colony said he would remain until "his people decide to change him."
While the comments struck a familiar tone for the 84-year-old leader -- he said earlier this year that only God could remove him from office -- he now faces increasingly grim circumstances in his crippled country.
The UN says more than 1,100 people have died in the cholera epidemic, adding to woes such as food shortages and poverty as Zimbabwe struggles with a collapsed economy and eye-popping inflation rates.
Mugabe denounced Western governments who have been stepping up their criticism of his regime since the outbreak of cholera.
"What a pack of lies," he said, adding that Zimbabwe was facing a war with Britain, supported by the United States and Europe.
"I won't be intimidated. Even if I am threatened with beheading, I believe this and nothing will ever move me from it: Zimbabwe belongs to us, not the British."
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Oh, it’s yours alright, Mugabe.
You own this mess, lock, stock and barrel.
OR his people decide to KILL him...................
ping
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, seen here on December 11,
has accused the United States of urging African nations to topple him,
adding that none were "brave enough to do that," state media reported Friday.
(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
It’s Ceaucescu Time ... for him and his cadre of generals.
......to room-temperature, one would hope.
The new Beeg Man America.
Do I hear an echo?
“The USofA is mine. The USofA is mine. The USofA is mine.” from Barry O?
When are his neighbors going to get smart & put a bullet in his head? The pandemics, violence & poverty in Zimbabwe is going to jump borders and destabilize them. They have to know this.
Hate Whitey from Robert. I'm stunned. Except Britain is hardly "Whitey" any more.
The Nation State is as good as dead.
I fear what will come next.
Of course many will say "You can have it."
But it's not his to have.
It's not a plaything, or an experiment.
It's a country, whose "leader" couldn't give a shit about its people.
History is recording more and more of these tyrants.
Where is Mr.Jackson?
Mr.Mandela?
Bob Geldof?
Bono?
Superman?
The Pope?
America went into Waco, Ruby Ridge, The Alamo, World Wars One and Two, Iraq, etc.
But not Rwanda.
Not Zimbabwe
To the west you have Nigeria: a racketeering-influenced-criminal-organization in the form of a “country”. To the east you have Somalia: pirates-R-us. To the north you have Ethiopia: Land of Ghaddafi-Duck. And to the south you have Zimbabwe: the Madman’s Paradise...
All of Africa, with very few exceptions, is a basket-case. The whole continent lives off foreign aid, propping up Switzerland’s banking industry with the ill-gotten gains of their corrupt tin-pot dictators. It is time to re-colonize Africa and exploit their natural resources. They do not deserve independence.
Nicolae Ceaucescu (January 26, 1918 – December 25, 1989)
Yes it IS that time of year again!..............
Just another Idi Amin. Great people, these African dictators. /s
The COP finally gets a look at who he’s talking to.
COP: M-mm-many apologies, Voter Colonel. Had I known it was you...
He slowly lowers his gun, lowers his head, and clicks his heels in a salute.
COP: Forgive me.
SEBASTIAN: You know me?
COP: Of course, Voter Colonel.
SEBASTIAN: Who am I?
COP: You... are... Colonel Sebastian Doyle. Section chief of CGI. Head of the Ministry of Alteration.
SEBASTIAN: Remind me a little. What do we do at the “Ministry of Alteration?”
COP: You... change people, sir.
SEBASTIAN: In what way?
COP: You change them from being alive people, to being dead people.
To purify democracy.
BILLY: Purify?!
COP: No one has done more to purge the ballot boxes than the Voter Colonel.
Zimbabwe is the current basket case but the same has happened in Angola, Zaire, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea.......the list goes on. There is one inescapable fact that Mugabe cannot get away from and that is, he has taken a prosperous, stable Rhodesia and turned it into an anarchic Zimbabwean nightmare.
And his "let's kick out the British" line is getting really old. That's all he's got. I bet the people actually long for the days of British rule, that is, those old enough to remember it.
He's 84. Someone should start a "Mugabe deathwatch countdown". Talk about "only the good die young!". That saying was written for this guy.
Indeed. Carter gave it to him. Thanks Jimmy.
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ........
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