Mugabe draws cheers at the UN

Mail & Guardian (South Africa) ^ | September 23, 2004 | Staff

[PigRigger]

Yep, these are the people that Kerry wishes to form a new coalition with.

God help us if this man finds his way into the White House.

Pray as if your life depends on it; it just might.

[Skooz]

(my comment would have been deleted by the mods)....

Ditto. My contempt for these smarmy, self-righteous, putrid, odious particles of vomit is limitless.

[UncleSamUSA]

How much more proof do we need that the UN is simply a bunch of thugs, murderers and terrorists playacting in front of cameras.

Anyone who spews hate for America and the West is applauded.

So why does the US need to remain in the UN, again??? Someone, please remind me.

Nah.... don't bother.

[hellinahandcart]

And you reckon you're getting the shaft!

Yes, we are.

After all, we have to host the riffraff, not you. And not just anywhere, but on acres in the middle of the choicest real estate in Manhattan.

I'd rather see a waste-treatment facility there, it would be more useful.

[bvw]

Or we should only give as much as Zimbabwe does.

[GVnana]

I guess this is what happens when you give people more than they deserve...

[Redleg Duke]

Self-convicted children. They are running the UN (except for the US and UK paying for it) and running amok at that.

[Condor51]

Can any of you figure out where their country lies on a map? Next.

Uh-yes. And it's really Rhodesia¹. 'Founded' by Cecil Rhodes of 'Rhodes Scholarship' fame.

1 - I can't speak Bantu, so I still call it by it's real name.

[BritishBulldog]

"The US pays 22% of the US budget not the UN budget. Britain pays 5.3% of the British budget. How do you figure that you pay more per head than the US does?"

What is "the British budget" & "the US budget"?

I think you'll find that the numbers refereed to the UN budget, if they referred to the US & UK GDP's or public sector spend, we'd all be paying a lot more.

Fact is, the US contributes around 22% or the budget and the UK around 5.4%. If the budget was, lets say, 1 billion dollars, the US would be paying $220,000,000 and the UK $54,000,000. The population of the USA is approx' 290 million & the population of the UK is around 59 million. Therefore, the US would be paying around 76 cents per American, while the UK would be paying around 92 cents per Brit.

Thus, we are getting shafted worse than you (if you leave aside the humiliation of having the likes of Mugabe applauded for slagging you off in your own back yard which is appalling)

[Dr. I. C. Spots]

yea, it's the wasteland right in the middle of Africa thanks to Mugabe. There's nothing worst than a hypocritical tyrant pointing fingers.

[Mi-kha-el]

Gansta paradise.

[Mi-kha-el]

Gangsta paradise, that is. Stand corrected.

[Irishguy]

i still think the idea of using the UN and creating a new bloc of purely democratic states...and therefore begin the development of a positive democratic bloc thereby making the UN irrelevant as an institution...

[LtKerst]

Mugabe has robbed farmers and ranchers of their land, given it to his cronnies, bankrupted his country, and caused starvation......What a great leader and Fine upstanding member of the U.N. Let's give him Veto power over all
issues of the World.

[JesseHousman]

Ah, Fester, its only a mere drop in the bucket.

Congress pisses away twice that much on bottled water and toilet paper.

Let's simply evict the UN and make certain that hallowed body is transferred to a country where their largesse can help the local economy. Zimbabwe would be an excellent location.

[George Smiley]

If we're paying 22 percent of the tab, we should get 22 percent of the total votes.

Golden Rule, and all that.

[bk1000]

Mugabe, hmmm, isn't he the one who supports killing white farmers and taking their land? Seems I heard about a bit of a recent skuffle down there.