[MadIvan]

There does come a point where fighting and dying becomes preferable to merely dying. Mugabe's time is near an end, I hope.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Really, what horrific new development can legitimately be called "a surprise" when it comes to this hellhole of hellholes. I can't help but feel sorry for the ordinary people there (when I think about them, which isn't that often) and I know folks here will say "toss the b**stard out" but it ain't that easy when the so-called gov't there has all the guns and power (yet another lesson)

[poetknowit]

Didn't "Land Reform" consist of driving white farmers off of their (productive) farms?
That info dropped off the screen very quickly. Rack up yet another sit on your hands United Nations solution.

[river rat]

".......could trigger protests against Robert Mugabe's government."

The poor bastards should have revolted years ago -- even if they had nothing but sticks, rocks and matches as weapons to start with...

Semper Fi

[Clive]

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[BooksForTheRight.com]

confiscated farms from white owners.
now this.
not a cent in aid!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Mr Mugabe recently awarded civil servants, including security forces, a 300 per cent pay rise.

At 1000% inflation, this must mean that they are only 700% behind now. The brilliance of totalitarian Marxist economics.

[Recovering_Democrat]

IBBF!

(in before Bush's fault!)

[rod1]

Welcome to Mugabe's paradise. Surely the UN has some kind of "leader of the year" or "most valuable leader" award they can bestow on the guy.

BTW--Didn't Carter certify all this. Any responsible reporters would be insisting that wherever Jimmah shows his face to make liberal looney condemnations of Bush and America, that he be made to comment on the carnage left behind after his little stamps of electoral approval. He love to give his good housekeeping stamp of despotic approval worldwide.

[6SJ7]

Analysts say the president has dented Zimbabwe's investment image...

Dented? What a 'sensitive' reporter we have here! Mustn't be too harsh when writing about a Marxist 'miracle' economy. Give it another year; the same writer will be commenting on how there is no obesity problem in Zimbabwe.

[DManA]

Leftys must be torn over this one. Since it would benefit our interests in no way it would be ok to send in troops. But don't we have to support a government that threw off the yoke of western imperialism?

[headsonpikes]

Yet more empirical evidence for the thesis that the very point of socialism is the annihilation of human life.

[Sundog]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625780/posts

Mugabe buys ten figher airplanes from Russia.

Here is the link if you can believe that.

[calljack]

Well, when you cut the heart out of your GDP it aint surprising that your country dies.

[quadrant]

I know the people of this sad country are undergoing a great deal of pain, but I cannot shake the thought that they wanted this. They wanted majority rule, and they have to live with the consequences.

[InterceptPoint]

Critics blame the land reform programme for a 60 per cent drop in agricultural output since 2000, leading to a 35 per cent fall in gross domestic product.

The Legacy of Marx and Lenin is certainly not dead in Zimbabwe. It would not be unexpected to see the Stalinist Phase next.

[Lurker]

people carry their money in large bags even for simple shopping trips.

Two words Ivan:

Wiemar Germany.

L