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UK plotting to invade Zimbabwe: Mugabe spokesman
Reuters ^ | Dec 7, 2008 | MacDonald Dzirutwe

Posted on 12/07/2008 9:36:35 AM PST by george76

Zimbabwe's government has accused former colonial ruler Britain of using a cholera epidemic to rally Western support for an invasion of the collapsing southern African nation, a state-run newspaper said on Sunday.

President Robert Mugabe is under mounting pressure from the international community, especially Western nations which accuse him of ruining the once prosperous country and exposing its people to famine and disease.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has branded Mugabe's government a "blood-stained regime" and said it was responsible for the cholera epidemic that has killed at least 575 people. The world must tell Mugabe "enough is enough," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the veteran leader's departure from office was long overdue.

The growing Western criticism signaled a plot to oust Mugabe's government militarily, Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: africa; cholera; condirice; gordonbrown; harare; mugabe; robertmugabe; zimbabwe
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21 posted on 12/07/2008 10:01:51 AM PST by Clive
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To: Clive

We can only hope.


22 posted on 12/07/2008 10:05:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: george76
UK plotting to invade Zimbabwe: Mugabe spokesman

Hell, overthrowing Mugabe would be among the most moral things a nation might do.

With the international aid the world now sends his country, we could hire a first class covert ops team to take him out to finally allow his country a return to the high standard of living they enjoyed when they were still a colony of Great Britain.

23 posted on 12/07/2008 10:18:06 AM PST by E. Cartman (If Citigroup is too big to let fail, then break it up.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

...”This is the U.S. in 2108.....”

....it may come sooner than that...check out Detroit/New Orleans/Newark/Baltimore/Cleveland/Atlanta or any other city where black Democrats have legally siezed power.


24 posted on 12/07/2008 10:18:27 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Travis McGee
This is one country where 90% of the population prays daily to be invaded by Western powers.

No doubt, but our knee-jerk liberal Western media would condemn such an action as more Western imperialism. It would save countless black Zimbabwean lives, but it wouldn't fit into to their small vocabulary of buzz words and their even smaller mind-set.

25 posted on 12/07/2008 10:18:37 AM PST by xJones
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To: Clive

“It is not going to happen”

Too bad.

It is unfortunate how post-colonial politics and geography can muck up would could have been be a “splendid little war”.

I think this what we have to look forward to under the “Obambi” presidency: global anarchy.

The other potential geo-political dominoes we can expect to fall:

*a de facto invasion and occupation of
Siberia by China.

*A continuation of the take over of Mexico
by narco-terrorist elements.

*A non-response to the India-Pakistan
confrontation.

I predict after two years of “Obambi” multi-lateralism that people will begin to look back on the Bush Administration’s foreign policy with unrestrained nostalgia.


26 posted on 12/07/2008 10:23:55 AM PST by ggekko60506
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To: george76

Invasion of Zimbawe is on nobody’s ‘to do’ list today.


27 posted on 12/07/2008 10:25:01 AM PST by RightWhale (We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
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To: george76
But Mugabe is ‘The Great ObamaNation’s” role model. That hyperinflation is just the ticket for paying off government debt. Poll the presses.
28 posted on 12/07/2008 10:25:21 AM PST by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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To: george76
Obama needs to sit down and talk with Mugabe, no preconditions , mind you.

A few million in the bank, and a condo in Dade County should be the ticket. Mugabe moves aside and comes on board as an Obama "foreign aid" advisor, with a green card

29 posted on 12/07/2008 11:57:00 AM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: george76
Vanity Fair took a very candid (and honest) look at Zimbabwe/Rhodesia in their September issue: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/09/zimbabwe200809
30 posted on 12/07/2008 12:04:12 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ought-six

I wish the rumor was true. Let Kenya and South Africa play a part in the Invasion. But, I don’t think it will happen until the good people of Rhodesia descend into cannibalism.


31 posted on 12/07/2008 12:31:24 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“But, I don’t think it will happen until the good people of Rhodesia descend into cannibalism.”

Yes. They are still at the “Ours is not the reason why” stage. When they get to the “Ours is but to do and die” stage maybe something will happen.


32 posted on 12/07/2008 12:35:11 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: george76
"One Head - One Pike!"

Over and out.

33 posted on 12/07/2008 12:46:50 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Clive

Brits have their hands full, they’re already under invasion themselves.


34 posted on 12/07/2008 1:22:59 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: Texas Fossil
Wonder where Mugabe’s bunker is

maybe Russia

35 posted on 12/07/2008 1:56:53 PM PST by alrea
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To: alrea

Naah! Putin is probably disgusted with him.


36 posted on 12/07/2008 2:45:47 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

Mugabe had “Liberation Theology” supporters. He is a communist.

You might remember that the United Methodist Church actively undermined their own Bishop Abel Muzarewa who was Zimbabwe’s first post colonial President in favor of Mugabe because the Bishop wasn’t commie enough..


37 posted on 12/07/2008 4:10:50 PM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: crusher

I don’t see this through Methodist glasses. Only as a stanch anti-Communist.

I know how the leaders of the Methodist Church are, and it is foreign from their tradition before the 1960’s. Many of their old members feel betrayed, or have left over this.

I am Baptist, but this has nothing to do with theology.

It is about Communism in a religious wrapper. A Lie. It is about subjection. It is un-American. It is about Totalitarianism.


38 posted on 12/07/2008 4:29:53 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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