Mugabe harvests lies as Zimbabwe faces shortages

The Times ^ | July 9, 2004 | Jan Raath

[MadIvan]

Really, Mugabe must be killed.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[cyborg]

I would volunteer. However, he's one amongst the rat's nest of commies that need to be wiped off the map.

[MadIvan]

As poltically incorrect as it is, I would love to see Britain send troops to Zimbabwe and re-establish Rhodesia. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Poohbah]

As the US Army said during the Phillippine Insurrection, "Civilize 'em with a Krag."

[cyborg]

http://home.att.net/~kbulgrien/rhodesia.htm

I wish

[MadIvan]

Well the old Rhodesian joke goes - what did people in Zimbabwe use to light their homes before they got candles?

Electric lights. :)

Regards, Ivan

[17th Miss Regt]

Tobacco 2000: 245 million kg 2004 (forecast): 65 million kg

Note the drastic decline in tobacco production. This is a harbinger of a major drop in deaths due to lung cancer and related diseases. It will save money in long term health care costs nationwide! Unfortunately, they won't just ban the evil weed outright. The comcommitent drop in production of other crops and starvation of the population is an unfortunate side effect. But even though they may starve to death, they won't have to fear lung cancer. In the end, we must remember that to make an omelette, you must break some eggs.(/sarcasm)

[cyborg]

http://www.rhodesia.com/oz_wa/gregory.html

Wouldn't be bad for anyone if they went back. Rhodesia was a good country and they didn't oppress anyone with apartheid laws. However, if such a move was done, then of course the rest of the world would take notice and not in a good way either.

[traviskicks]

Why doesn't Bush speak out against this? haven't heard a word from him.... Maybe he is worried the black caucus will use it against him? or? speaking of which, why aren't THEY saying anything?

[tet68]

At the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in April in Bulawayo, the heart of the country’s cattle industry, the sole entries in the livestock section were two donkeys.

At least the democrats made a showing.

[Clive]

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[TLI]

An old answer to a "new" (ha) question.

 

[Happygal]

Mugabwe is like Comical Ali - lying through his teeth while his country is falling apart behind him.

Is his wife still shoe shopping in London?

[TEXASPROUD]

Pamwe Chete!!!!

[headsonpikes]

Socialism - serving mankind for a century - raw, boiled, however you like!

[ChadGore]

Yet another failed socialist dictator.

[TLI]

Wow, they had BOTH of them in the show? . . .







: )

[zimdog]

"Rhodesia was a good country and they didn't oppress anyone with apartheid laws."

This is no defense of Mugabe or Rhodesia, but how much freedom did the average person have in Rhodesia. Could they vote? Go to school? Live where they wanted?

Rhodesia might not have had the apartheid system of SA, but it was still a highly segregated place, and most of that segregation was backed up by laws.

[cyborg]

http://www.geocities.com/Chilenationalist/rhodesia.html

In terms of what was going on next door, Rhodesia was a far better option for a black African. That's just how it was back then. Personally, if I was black and educated in that time I would have simply left (which many did and perhaps that's why southern Africa is in the state that it is in).