Posted on 03/31/2007 5:39:37 AM PDT by headsonpikes
Monday We are out the back of the sprawling presidential compound, having a relaxed afternoon braai. With three US dollars’ worth of Zimbabwe currency on the fire, the flames have been burning for four hours. And the British say I have harmed this country? “Why do my people no longer love me?” I demand. “What more can I give to them?” I am attended by a team of recent graduates from the University of Zimbabwe. They were given the choice of working for me or going to jail. They are all extremely loyal....
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Wednesday I am in my compound in Harare, holding a brainstorming session with my graduates. Under pain of death, they have been told to suggest reasons why I might be growing unpopular.
“The moustache?” suggests one, meekly. I glower at him, and he starts to sweat.
“British propaganda!” I shout, after a few minutes of silence. “Tony Blair and the homosexual British Establishment! It is they who have destroyed this country!” The graduates all nod. We agree that the British have consistently presented our abandoned farms, decimated economy, rampaging war veterans and inflation running at 1,800 per cent in a really, really bad light....
Why won't one of his bodyguards do the world a huge favor and shoot the rabid old dog in the back of the head?
Funny but true. just finished a great book on this monster called "our votes, our guns". Looney. The Rhodesians were sold out to the wrong guy. He sounded so accomidating at first. Then his wife died. Now he is a monster. I have heard that the inflation rate may hit 4,000% by summer. What a loser.
He became a monster because his wife died? After my Mom died my Dad remained the same old decent,kind hearted guy he had always been.
Well, Caligula did become a TAD eccentric after his sister Druscilla died. But then again, it's been alleged he was popping her hood, so there may be something to the claim about Mugabe.
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Remember that the Gukurahundi was set loose on the Nbebele of Matabeleland and Masvingo in 1983, while Mugabe was still the darling of the Western liberal elites.
His first wife did have some affection from the people.
The current wife is another Marie Antoinette.
Her shopping expeditions are legendary.
And when the time came to allocate conficated commercial farmland to Pary cadre, she was there with both hands out.
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