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The problem is simple...

Most Americans naively think that Mugabe is seizing the commercial farmers land, and causing starvation of his population, based on settling old scores with England, and that it is the oppressed black man, getting revenge on the colonialist white man. This is NOT true.

He has taken the land, and given it to his cronies, and no one is planting crops, and all of the people are starving.

Now, to discuss this, is highly controversial, because even though we are an enlightened country, in many respects we refuse to even delve into racial issues in other countries.

Because of our history, many racial issues are never addressed appropriately in America, most people are too cowardly to stand up to the truth. Mugabe is murdering his citizens, because he is evil. Do you think Jesse Jackson will repudiate Mugabe? Now, if Mugabe was a white man... and apartheid was visited upon Zimbabwe, Jackson would be all over the news.

And, we do help Zimbabwe with food, but Mugabe uses it as a tool of oppression, and an political tool. Huge stores of food were given to his party's supporters, during their last presidential election... the starving people of the opposition party, be damned.

We cannot enter into his country, and kill him. You cannot equate Mugabe with Iraq. And, even sadder still, it serves no national interest for us to do so. I am not saying that this tyrannt shouldn't suffer and be removed by assassination, if necessary. It's just that there isn't much we can do, right now.

The other good news is the AIDS package for Africa... don't forget the president's support on that issue. He hasn't forgotten Africa.

I encourage you to read up on Zimbabwe.
www.zimbabwesituation.com
is an excellent news resource, much like FR, but pertains only to Zimbabwe, and only has articles, isn't for posting. You will learn a lot. Write your congressman, and your president. These are good things to do, I do them!