[NormsRevenge]

Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

[chet_in_ny]

I thought I heard that Halibuton, under direct orders of Karl Rove, was developing a corn crop virus. I guess this confirms it.

[billorites]

Leave me out of this!

[claudiustg]

So, the people must be forbidden from growing or possessing corn to break their dangerous dependency. You can't be too careful.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

UNITED NATIONS - The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren't hungry, they just can't eat their favorite food.

This garbage is from the AP? "The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot"???? Who is calling Mugabe a hero, how many of them are they, and who cares? The writer is simply trying to bury the fact that Mugabe is a monster, by pretending this is mitigated somehow because "some" people, unnamed, consider him a "hero" for reasons unspecified.

Let's try this kind of mealy-mouthed obfuscation on a similar, but bigger, historical example: "Stalin, the Soviet leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren't hungry, they just can't eat their favorite food. 'Let the Ukrainians and Kulaks eat grass or tree bark' opined the Soviet leader, hero of the Russian Revolution and Civil War."

[metmom]

81! Why won't these despots die?!?! Are they just too mean to die or what? Maybe the Devil doesn't even want them.

[JasonC]

Enough it more than enough. He is a senile demented idiot in deep denial.

[Rocky]

Sounds like Marie Antoinette just before the guillotine fell. "Let them eat cake."

[JasonC]

It raises the question, why can't politicians ever just get over themselves and leave things alone? 20 years ago Zimbabwe was doing fine. 10 years ago Venezuela was doing fine. 30 years ago Iran was doing fine. But no, they must always shovel people around like concrete and wreck everything they touch. The more they wreck, the more they sling their slanders around to avoiding facing the fact, pitting people against each other and wrecking still more. All to save their precious self-importance. They are all worm food in the end anyway, it is not like it ever does anything for them.

[lady lawyer]

Did the white settlers "take the land" in the 1800's, or did they just start to cultivate land where there were only nomadic tribes?

[Ironfocus]

Give the people cake, since they don't eat bread.....

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Can't someone furnish a quotation for a 500 lb JDAM dropped on this guy's keister from a suitable altitude?

[Once-Ler]

The problem is reliance on corn, he said during Friday's interview, "but it doesn't mean we haven't other things to eat: We have heaps of potatoes but people are not potato eaters ... they have rice but they're not as attracted (to that)."

Mugabe continued,"There is much to eat for those who are not finicky. People refuse to eat rats, grubs, dust, gravel, bark, or feces although these too are plenty. Even the flesh of dead neighbors is shunned by these ingrates.

[John Jorsett]

Hey MSM? The heck with Barbara Bush, THIS is the "Let them eat cake" remark you've been looking for.

[popdonnelly]

Robert Mugabe, a hero to "progressives" everywhere. And a first-rate asshat.

[Petronski]

...but said he'll remain in politics until he dies.

Even if it is tomorrow, Zim has been nearly ruined at this devil's hand. [spit]

[M. Espinola]

The 'Corn' (con) which is to blame for the famine is dictator Robert Commie Mugabe.

[ozzymandus]

Some call him a hero? How could even the most deluded leftist call this mass murderer a hero? Surely not even david cornhole would call mugabe a "hero".

[Clive]

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[TEXASPROUD]

Dear Bob,
Enough is enough.
God