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To: SauronOfMordor
Do you feel the same way about Venezuela?
157 posted on 03/01/2002 5:45:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Mugabe Tells Britain to 'Go to Hell' [Excerpt] "But of course we say: 'Go to hell'. Go to hell, our people have decided and that is what matters to us. It's not the right or responsibility of the British to decide on our elections. We don't decide on their own and why should they poke their pink noses in our business?"

In his comments on Wednesday, Blair accused Mugabe of acting like a dictator and said Britain would push for action against him at a Commonwealth summit this weekend. [Excerpt]

He isn't acting.

158 posted on 03/01/2002 8:16:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Do you feel the same way about Venezuela?

Venezuela at least has some history of half-way reasonable self-rule by the people there since they attained independence from Spain in 1830. Yes, they've had periods of military dictatorship, but the people have mostly managed to keep themselves fed, and you don't hear of mass starvation (like Somalia, Nigeria (Biafran Independence attempt), and Ethiopia) or episodes of mass killing (Rwandan massacres)

Their current situation is caused by a raving Marxist having been installed thru his having the most votes in a three-way race (something like how we got Clinton in his first term)

159 posted on 03/01/2002 2:28:28 PM PST by SauronOfMordor
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