He is begging to be destroyed.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 02/21/2005 11:41:40 PM PST by MadIvan
President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 81st birthday yesterday by portraying Tony Blair as Zimbabwe's chief villain and vowing to defeat him in the forthcoming election.
Mr Mugabe appeared on state television and described the parliamentary polls due on March 31 as a personal battle between him and the Prime Minister.
"I am for the truth, Blair is for the untruthful," said Mr Mugabe. "I would tell him that he is a liar, straightforwardly, on Zimbabwe, and he knows he is telling a lie, a deliberate lie."
These "lies" are, according to the president, Mr Blair's accusations that human rights abuses are taking place in Zimbabwe.
Moreover, Mr Mugabe has convinced himself that Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, is nothing more than a British puppet under the direct control of Mr Blair.
Mr Mugabe said the MDC leadership was collaborating with Britain and guilty of "betrayal" and "treason".
He believes that portraying Mr Blair as a pantomime villain and reviving the grievances of the colonial past are vote-winners.
One chapter, headed The Blair Factor, in the ruling Zanu-PF party's election manifesto presents Mr Blair as a Victorian imperialist in the mould of Cecil Rhodes, obsessed with restoring the land that Mr Mugabe seized from all but a handful of Zimbabwe's 4,000 white farmers.
• The European Union yesterday renewed its sanctions targeted on Mr Mugabe's regime. He is among 95 officials banned from visiting any member state. Assets they have in European banks are liable to be frozen and Zimbabwe is also the subject of an arms embargo.
The sanctions, first imposed in 2002, were renewed for another 12 months, but will be reviewed after the election next month.
He is begging to be destroyed.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
I am suprised the U.N. did not make him the head of their so-called HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP....the one's they appointed were bad enough as it is....
well... Mugabe has been on Earth too long...
I am so glad we have a second amendment
"I am for the truth
Gotta see it and believe it before you can be for it.
Is Mugabe really concerned about the outcome of elections? Won't he just stuff the ballot box anyway?
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