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To: MadIvan; cyborg; Clive; GeronL; Cincinatus' Wife; ZULU
A smart bomb for a dumb cretin.

Actually, anything short of an full-scale invasion would be fine with me. Even a partial resolution, e.g. the agreements that allowed Charles Taylor and Idi Amin to flee their respective countries, would go a long way toward ameliorating the problems faced by the people of Zimbabwe.

Let's not forget, this is the same regime that still-to the best of my knowledge-harbors the man known as "The Ethiopian Pol Pot."

I don't think many people, outside of his cronies in the ZANU-PF, would shed a tear if Mugabe were to leave office.

6 posted on 08/16/2004 4:20:50 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride wit us or collide wit us.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

It's getting desperate there.


7 posted on 08/16/2004 6:16:36 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
"The Ethiopian Pol Pot."

Mengistu.

He has a boulevard named after him in Harare.

11 posted on 08/16/2004 10:44:06 AM PDT by happygrl
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>I don't think many people, outside of his cronies in the >ZANU-PF, would shed a tear if Mugabe were to leave office.
They are precisely the people who - should they see him get away with his unforgiveable actions - will continue to carry his torch in the belief that they, too, will be immune to retribution. He has long been training kids as young as 12 in his "torture training camps".
Some of the younger politicians and the African public wanted rid of Mugabe LONG before he started his land-grab. This in itself was partially a device to whip up nationalist emotions in an attempt to shore up his sagging popularity, at the same time diverting attention from his disastrous, outmoded policies which already had the country running rapidly downhill.


16 posted on 08/17/2004 4:11:56 PM PDT by Andika
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