Mugabe: It's the UK's fault!

[tomwaits]

Apparently the UK has orchestrated the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe in a nefarious plot designed to get rid of Mugabe (who, ironically, also insists that there is no cholera outbreak).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7780728.stm

[The Fool]

Mugabe is a great man.
Look at what he has done for Zimbabwe.
I have one of his one Hundren million dollar bills, How can we possibly criticize a guy who has created so so many millionaires?

[Damien Evans]

Time to send in the SAS and get rid of that clown. I'm sure either of them would be happy to do it, and they're both certainly capable of it.

[moon1969]

Ah the old blame the whitey card. Robert Mugabe has no shame. He messed up everything and he still blames the white man. Mugabe only cares about himself.

[moon1969]

Robert Mugabe is a disgusting human being. Damn Robert Mugabe. :mad:

[geni]

Time to send in the SAS and get rid of that clown. I'm sure either of them would be happy to do it, and they're both certainly capable of it.

Milltry action against zimbabwe is politicaly imposibale and technicaly darn hard. Atractive as it might feel other solutions will have to be found.

[petra10]

Magabe blames Britain for everything.Yet do you see how he dresses and talks? Very British if you ask me. Even his judges dress like British judges.
If he has so much hatred of Britain why did he not rid his country of its Britishness.
Just another sign of his madness.

[Alferd_Packer]

I blame Lisa

[Puppycow]

Milltry action against zimbabwe is politicaly imposibale and technicaly darn hard. Atractive as it might feel other solutions will have to be found.

Do "other solutions" exist?

It would be nice if South Africa took the initiative in finding a solution. Europeans and Americans don't have much of a track record in solving problems in Afrca.

[gdnp]

Do "other solutions" exist?

It would be nice if South Africa took the initiative in finding a solution. Europeans and Americans don't have much of a track record in solving problems in Afrca.

There is always the "biological solution". Mugabe will be 85 in February. If he gets sick, it's not like he can just jet to some western country for health care. He can't live forever, and if he has an heir apparent I haven't heard about it.

[The Fool]

There is always the "biological solution". Mugabe will be 85 in February. If he gets sick, it's not like he can just jet to some western country for health care. He can't live forever, and if he has an heir apparent I haven't heard about it.
Thats probably because any "heir apparent" is either dead or hiding in the wilderness. Mugabe will rule as if he will never die right up to the day he dies.

[a_unique_person]

Milltry action against zimbabwe is politicaly imposibale and technicaly darn hard. Atractive as it might feel other solutions will have to be found.

What would be hard about it? I can't see any but a committed core putting up any resistance. 99% of the population must hate him by now.

[Puppycow]

What would be hard about it? I can't see any but a committed core putting up any resistance. 99% of the population must hate him by now.

One might have thought the same thing about the tyrant Saddam Hussein.
In fact some people said just that.
I'm wary of anyone who says that we would be greeted as liberators, or it would be a cakewalk.

[a_unique_person]

One might have thought the same thing about the tyrant Saddam Hussein.
In fact some people said just that.
I'm wary of anyone who says that we would be greeted as liberators, or it would be a cakewalk.

I think it's a lot different to Iraq. IIRC half the population has fled already.

[AWPrime]

Time to send in the SAS and get rid of that clown. I'm sure either of them would be happy to do it, and they're both certainly capable of it.
SAS is overkill. Send in the circus clowns, they should be able to take him out within a week.

[geni]

Do "other solutions" exist?

It would be nice if South Africa took the initiative in finding a solution. Europeans and Americans don't have much of a track record in solving problems in Afrca.

If South Africa had acted sooner something might have been done but too late now.

[geni]

What would be hard about it? I can't see any but a committed core putting up any resistance. 99% of the population must hate him by now.

Much of the army still support him and zimbarwe is landlockec. None of the countries around it are going to react to well to people trying to transit a militry force through their country.

[geni]

There is always the "biological solution". Mugabe will be 85 in February. If he gets sick, it's not like he can just jet to some western country for health care. He can't live forever, and if he has an heir apparent I haven't heard about it.

A few high ranking people in the militry are probably the cloest to that role.

[DarthFishy]

If South Africa had acted sooner something might have been done but too late now.

Indeed. It's pretty shocking how much Mugabe was allowed to get away with by the South African government. :(

[Darth Rotor]

I think it's a lot different to Iraq. IIRC half the population has fled already.

Your recollection is off, quelle surprise.

Iraq had a population of about 24 million as the war began. Best numbers on refugees is about a million displaced internally, and about a million and a half left the country. That is a serious issue for Iraq, as some of that represents a brain drain of their middle class.

But about two and a half million fled from about 24 million is around a tenth, not a half.

DR

[Damien Evans]

Your recollection is off, quelle surprise.

Iraq had a population of about 24 million as the war began. Best numbers on refugees is about a million displaced internally, and about a million and a half left the country. That is a serious issue for Iraq, as some of that represents a brain drain of their middle class.

But about two and a half million fled from about 24 million is around a tenth, not a half.

DR

What have figures from Iraq got to do with people fleeing Zimbabwe? You might as well have told us the price of cod in Iceland, it would have been just as relevant.

[geni]

Indeed. It's pretty shocking how much Mugabe was allowed to get away with by the South African government. :(

Not really they probably felt they owed him favors from the fight agaist apartheid days and he has a lot of overthrowing the white rulers points. As a result he is not someone the various other leaders in that area will criticize lightly.

[Darth Rotor]

What have figures from Iraq got to do with people fleeing Zimbabwe? You might as well have told us the price of cod in Iceland, it would have been just as relevant.
My response was to AUP commenting on Iraq.
One might have thought the same thing about the tyrant Saddam Hussein. In fact some people said just that. I'm wary of anyone who says that we would be greeted as liberators, or it would be a cakewalk.
I think it's a lot different to Iraq. IIRC half the population has fled already.
As I read that, AUP was commenting that half the population of Iraq had fled. What you are saying is that he was saying "half the population of Zimbabwe has fled." Is that it?

DR

[dudalb]

Much of the army still support him and zimbarwe is landlockec. None of the countries around it are going to react to well to people trying to transit a militry force through their country.

Last time I looked the Zimbabwe army was nothing to write home about.
The real problems with a military solution is not military, but political.

[geni]

Last time I looked the Zimbabwe army was nothing to write home about.
The real problems with a military solution is not military, but political.

By african standards it is fairly good. We wouldn't be looking at sierra leone style walkover.

[a_unique_person]

My response was to AUP commenting on Iraq.


As I read that, AUP was commenting that half the population of Iraq had fled. What you are saying is that he was saying "half the population of Zimbabwe has fled." Is that it?

DR

Half the population of Zimbabwe!

[geni]

The commander of Zimbabwe's air force has been wounded in what officials are calling an assassination attempt.

Perence Shiri, 53, a close ally of President Mugabe seen as one of the most feared military leaders, was shot in the arm and is said to be stable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7784975.stm


But only one incerdent. Could mean nothing.

[Damien Evans]

My response was to AUP commenting on Iraq.


As I read that, AUP was commenting that half the population of Iraq had fled. What you are saying is that he was saying "half the population of Zimbabwe has fled." Is that it?

DR

Yes.

[Darth Rotor]

Yes.

Thank you both.

[moon1969]

Zimbabwe would be better withouth Robert Mugabe. Robert Mugabe is a racist homophobe and a megalomaniac. Robert Mugabe is a dictator with a huge ego.