[MadIvan]

Let's hope it's the end...and Mugabe faces the same demise as Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Lurker]

I prefer to see the people of Zim enforce some Romanian-style term limits myself.

L

[Dosa26]

Good riddance. I hope they lynch him and get his secret accounts before he can flee.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

He is a coward. Perhaps he will try to run off to Havana..or actually maybe Caracas.

In the end he will still have to answer for what he has done.

[Uriah_lost]

I could see a "live aid" style fund raiser by Hollywood and such luminaries as the Dixie Chix and John Cougar Mellonhead to prop him up.....good thing they don't read FR or I might give them ideas.

[libstripper]

As the country approaches 18 April, the 27th anniversary of the end of white rule and Mr Mugabe's rise to power, the years of abuse and neglect are culminating in untenable crises.

Barbra Streisand. "Abuse and neglect", and even corruption, aren't what it's about. It's communism, pure and simple. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union, Communist China, and Cuba, and it will happen in Venezuela.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Mugabe faces the same demise as Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci"

A great thought, but probably the forlorn hope.

I am betting on a comfy retirement with all of the money he stole in Monaco, or Saudi.

[Northern Alliance]

Of course the MSM won't report that Mugabe also blamed Pres. Bush for his problems.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504416/posts

Also:
Mr. Mugabe accused Britain and the United States of working to unseat him because of his forcible redistribution of white-owned farms among blacks, helping plunge his country into its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1980.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Zimbabwe = Detroit.

[sphinx]

The curious thing about Mugabe is that he lacks a cheering section among Western leftists. He has all the credentials. He's a Marxist and a successful revolutionary. He's anti-imperialist, anti-Western, and anti-American. He has waged relentless war on the successful elements of his population -- and if he's run things into the ground, so did all the others of his type.

One would think there would be Institutes of Mugabe Studies springing up in the colleges, Democratic congressman making pilgrimages for a grip and grin, and Mugabe tee shirts worn proudly in the demonstrations. Heck, even Dennis Kucinich should be wearing one.

Mugabe has clearly pushed all the left buttons. What has gone wrong?

[when the time is right]

This took 27 years...wonder how long Venezuela has.

[arthurus]

But what are the chances that Mugabe will be replaced by someone who is not Mugabe II, and worse because the new guy has to build his empire out of a country already almost completely depleted. He won't have any prosperity to leech from to get going.

[nopardons]

AMEN to that!