Mugabe at U.N. says West undermines his government (accuses West of using 'filthy antics')

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/25/09 | Claudia Parsons

[NormsRevenge]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accused Western countries on Friday of "filthy antics" aimed at undermining a power-sharing government forged in February under a pact with former rival Morgan Tsvangirai.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Mugabe said the United States and the European Union had refused to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe, and "some of them are working strenuously to divide the parties in the inclusive government."

"If they will not assist the inclusive government in rehabilitating our economy, could they please, please stop their filthy clandestine divisive antics," Mugabe said.

The United States imposed sanctions in 2003 on Mugabe and other prominent Zimbabweans accused of undermining democracy. The European Union imposed measures of its own.

Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, has long been a pariah in the West, blamed by critics for plunging his country, once the bread basket of Africa, into poverty through mismanagement and corruption.

In response, Mugabe has blamed the West for Zimbabwe's steep economic decline, saying sanctions were imposed to retaliate for the seizure of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to blacks.

[NormsRevenge]

Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980

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He won, Zimbabwe lost.

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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly
at U.N. headquarters in New York September 25, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Segar

[FlingWingFlyer]

Mugs needs to help Americans get the U.S. thrown out of the U.N.

[JohnLongIsland]

Robert Mugabe = The Perennial U.N. Poster Child

[PittsburghAfterDark]

And people wonder why Rush accurately refers to the UN as the Star Wars bar scene.

[massgopguy]

“Power sharing”. That means they take turns killing White Farmers.

[KarlInOhio]

We are bringing instability to them by hording zeroes and embargoing any exports of zeroes to them. If they hadn't revalued their currency a few times, they would be up to 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Zimbucks having the value of the original Zimbabwe dollar from 1980.

I hope we are keeping all those zeroes in the Strategic Zero Reserve. We'll need them soon if the Fed keeps printing up dollars to buy Obama's multi-trillion dollar deficit.

[cameraeye]

Maybe he don’t like white people?

[cranked]

Mugabe should be thankful to whomever he worships that he is still alive and breathing. Suppose it is one of the irony’s of life.

[5by5]

Is it freak week at the UN?

[5by5]

Is it freak week at the UN?